The document summarizes a policy workshop held in Prague, Czech Republic to discuss recommendations from the CENTRES project for improving creative entrepreneurship education. Workshop participants including government and education representatives agreed with the CENTRES recommendations, which included taking more horizontal, arts-focused, digitally-enabled, and business-linked approaches to entrepreneurship curriculum and teaching programs. Next steps discussed incorporating the recommendations into national strategies and continuing initiatives for cross-sector collaboration and teacher professional development.

1. CENTRES
CENTRES (Creative Entrepreneurship in Schools) project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
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With the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union
Policy workshop in the Czech Republic
Author: Jana Vongreyová, NÚV
05/05/2014
Prague, Czech Republic The policy issues were presented for a group of experienced teachers, representatives from the Ministry of education and the body of the Ministry, National Institute for Education and representatives from variety of NGO’s dealing with education, culture and CCI’s issues. The workshop was attended altogether by 17 participants, including the project team and was held in DOX - Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, 5th of May 2014. The first part of the workshop was dedicated to the dissemination of the project results, pilot activity outputs and project policy recommendations as well as presentation of the actual situation of delivering the national strategy for entrepreneurship education. Our partner from the Association for Creativity in Education also presented the experiences of implementing the program Creative partnerships into Czech educational environment. The second part of the workshop was a roundtable discussion about each particular CENTRES policy recommendation. Policy workshop program:
9:50
Registration
10:00
Welcome and introduction
Jana Vongreyová, National Institute for Education
Michal Kučerák, DOX – Centre for Contemporary Art
10:15
CENTRES: impact of the project
Jana Vongreyová, National Institute for Education
10:35
Strategy for entrepreneurship education: development of the situation in the EU and in the Czech Republic
Lukáš Hula, National Institute for Education
11:15
Creative partnerships in the Czech republic
Marianna Sršňová, Association for Creativity in Education
11:45
Discussion
12:00
Coffee break
12:20
Roundtable discussion: a response to the CENTRES policy recommendations
13:45
Workshop wrap-up – conclusions and next steps

2. CENTRES (Creative Entrepreneurship in Schools) project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which
may be made of the information contained therein.
www.centres-eu.org
With the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union
COUNTRY – Czech Republic
Policy recommendation
Key conclusions
What next?
Horizontal and integrated approaches to creative entrepreneurship in schools
The cross-sectoral cooperation is a very actual topic in the CR – it still has big gaps. So we totally agree with this recommendation.
Rather than waiting for the system to change, we should encourage schools to be active and invite the ”strangers” from outside world to present their point of view. And vice versa – schools to go out and meet people from different sectors. Dissemination of the examples of good practise – projects like CENTRES, Creative Partnerships, etc.
An arts revival in our schools
The reduction of arts and creative teaching in curricula – this is also the picture of Czech educational system. Dr. Pastorová from National Institute for Education (in charge of arts subjects in framework educational programmes) sadly commented that the need for bringing back the arts subjects into curricula is decreasing every year.
The Ministry of Education is now in the process of preparing the National strategy for Smart Specialisation and preparing a new operational programme Education, Science and Research and have a working group on incorporating Entrepreneurship, Innovativeness and Creativity into the programme. They are cooperating with art professionals especially in terms of supporting art subjects and creative teaching methods.
Toward a creative entrepreneurship curriculum for schools
Total agreement with this recommendation.
The Czech Republic is now in the phase of preparing the National Strategy for Smart Specialisation – Mrs. Vacková (in charge of coordinating the working gorup of experts to prepare this document) attended our workshop and promised she will introduce the CENTRES policy recommendation in the ministry.
Pervasively digital creative learning
Agreement with this recommendation.
The new operational program for Education, Science and Research will encourage the professionals from creative industries (especially games sector) to develop digitally based creative teaching methods.

3. CENTRES (Creative Entrepreneurship in Schools) project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which
may be made of the information contained therein.
www.centres-eu.org
With the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union
Dedicated creative entrepreneurship programmes
The Czech republic is now in the process of preparing the National Strategy for Smart Specialization with special emphasis on entrepreneurship, innovations and creativity, as well as negotiating the possibility to prepare specialized National Strategy for Entrepreneurship Education. The National Institute for Education is hosting also a Centre for fictive firms (mini- companies), which is the central body for organizing entrepreneurship programs across all regions.
Incorporating the CENTRES Policy recommendations into prepared national strategies – Strategy for Smart Specialization and possibly the Strategy for Entrepreneurship Education. Disseminating the CENTRES Policy recommendations.
Enabling programmes for creative entrepreneurship teaching
The teachers definitely need the external support to teach entrepreneurship. In the Czech republic, the cooperation between schools and professionals from the world of work (generally, not only in creative sector) is very poor.
Several initiatives and projects are nowadays dealing with the need of cooperation between schools and the outside world, but mostly generally, not with the emphasis on entrepreneurship (e.g. national systemic ESF funded project ”POSPOLU”). Unfortunately, the recently published Education Strategy for the Czech Republic 2020 doesn’t mention the need of entrepreneurial education for the teachers at all. We need to focus on dissemination of this recommendation in the Ministry.
Coordinated programmes to link education and business
Agreement.
The project Czech Cultural and Creative Industries Mapping (2011-2015) is organising regular meatings on Mapping the conditions of running creative incubators in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungury – the policy recommendation will be distributed through the manager of the project, Mrs. Žáková.