EDISON Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship has never been more important than today. The current complex and insecure economic environment requires individuals with an entrepreneurial mindset, not only important for entrepreneurs but also for employees. Research shows that young people with entrepreneurial experience during their education are not only more likely to start their own business, but are employed faster too.
Entrepreneurship has never been more important than today. The current complex and insecure economic environment requires individuals with an entrepreneurial mindset, not only important for entrepreneurs but also for employees. Research shows that young people with entrepreneurial experience during their education are not only more likely to start their own business, but are employed faster too.
The good news is that entrepreneurship is a competence that can be taught; ‘If you are innovative, if you take initiative, if you don’t shirk from taking risks, and if you know how to communicate with people, then you are entrepreneurial’.
In the European Communication ‘New Skills for New Jobs’, entrepreneurship is mentioned as one of the areas where teacher training should be focusing on. The partnership aims to transfer successful experiences and strategies from Austria, Spain and Italy, to the Netherlands, Ireland and the United Kingdom. The experiences and strategies from Austria are presented by the Entrepreneurship Concept of Schumpeter HAK. All three recipient countries are represented by national VET-associations and therefore, have the perfect position to develop an ‘Entrepreneurial learning pathway’ in VET on a national scale, that encourages the entrepreneurial spirit and capabilities of a certain group of students and meets the requirements of the current labour market. The project focuses on demonstrating the attractiveness of business ownership and on the encouragement of such a choice. Aims and objectives of the project are • the establishment of a trans-national and trans-sectoral network on entrepreneurship education; • the flexible Edison learning programme with blended learning and monitoring of company set-up; • the transnational Edison ‘train the trainer programme’ for entrepreneurship conducted through an innovative pedagogy in a blended learning environment; • recognition by learners that entrepreneurship is as important as a skill as well as their own vocational specialism.