The document outlines a project aimed at enhancing entrepreneurial education among teachers in Europe, focusing on turning creative ideas into actionable initiatives and promoting key competencies through a structured teaching process. Funded by the EU, the project involves 11 partners and targets over 4,000 educators across 18 countries, providing resources such as a virtual guide and tools to support entrepreneurial learning. Additionally, an entrepreneurial schools award recognizes exemplary schools promoting entrepreneurship, with the first awards presented at the European Parliament in 2015.

1. Project
Introducing

2. Entrepreneurship ?

3. Entrepreneurship:
"An individual's ability to turn ideas into
action. It includes creativity, innovation,
showing initiative and risk-taking, as
well as the ability to plan and manage
projects in order to achieve objectives."

4. Entrepreneurial orientation…
“The propensity to act
autonomously, innovate and take
risks, proactive with regard to
opportunities...”

5. Entrepreneurship in the context of
the teaching & learning process…
"a process through which learners
acquire a broad set of competencies
that can bring greater individual, social
and economic benefits since the
competences acquired lend themselves
to application in every aspect of
people's lives."

6. European framework on Key Competences
for Lifelong Learning* - 8 key
competences:
1. Communication in the mother tongue
2. Communication in foreign languages
3. Mathematical competence and basic
competences in science and technology
4. Digital competence
5. Learning to learn
6. Social and civic competences
7. Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship
8. Cultural awareness and expression

7. Funding from the Competitiveness and Innovation
Programme / DG Enterprise.
3-year project (2013-2015) - 11 consortium partners - 5
private sector partners.
Target group = Teachers primary, secondary and
vocational schools (over 4,000 teachers in 18 European
countries)
A Virtual Guide to Entrepreneurial Learning has been
designed to provide educators with a diverse range of
tools and methods that support entrepreneurial learning
About the Entrepreneurial
School Project:

8. The partners in the European project

9. 8 National Focus Groups
search for and verify best practice in
entrepreneurial learning
identify a pilot network of 80 primary and secondary
schools in 8 countries
propose models which will be tested in schools and
adjusted to national school curricula.
Available in English and translated in at least 8
languages

10. Let’s discover the Virtual Guide
to Entrepreneurial Learning...
www.tesguide.eu
www.entrepreneurialschool.eu

12. Search in Tools and Methods:

15. Search Good Practice Schools and Case
Study Schools:
Examples of visions, plans, job descriptions and
frameworks to learn from and to use in your own school
from several countries
Case Study Schools which are good practitioners of
entrepreneurial learning.

20. Two web-based tools:
1. self-assessment for teachers in primary,
secondary and vocational school;
2. a quality checklist for schools.

21. The EU Entrepreneurial
Schools Award:
The consortium established an Entrepreneurial Schools
Award in the 3rd year of the project, ‘branded’ as an EU
award.
11 schools from Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece,
Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and
United Kingdom were awarded during a ceremony that
took place at the European Parliament in Brussels on
October 15, 2015.

22. Thank you!
Maïté Debry - Project Manager
maite.debry@eun.org