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Below you will find some good examples of projects on entrepreneurship in education that has received funding by a European education programme. You will also find some links for relevant websites and portals.

Me & MyCity – Finnish innovative educational project primarily aimed at the school education sector (6th grade, 12-13 years of age)

Me & MyCity is a Finnish education innovation aimed at the school education sector that has received international acclaim. The target group of the project is pupils at the age of 12-13 under the instruction of their teachers, but other years and classes can benefit from the project as well. Me & MyCity is a learning concept aimed at school children, covering society, working life and entrepreneurship. The project centres around a miniture city, where pupils will work in a profession and function as consumers and citizens as part of society.

The learning concept includes teacher training, learning materials for ten lessons and a day-long visit to the Me & MyCity learning environment.

For more information visit the Me & MyCity website: http://yrityskyla.fi/en/

24H Camp – 24 Hour Innovation Camp, Innovation for future entrepreneurs. A project testing the ‘24H Camp’ as a method of teaching

This project, originating from the vocational education sector, is including schools and educational institutions as well as entrepreneurial business from the partner countries of the project.

The partners of the 24H Camp project all detected the need of improving the entrepreneurial spirit within their organisations. Each partner has entrepreneur studies in their curriculum, but practical ways and methods on how to teach entrepreneurship was lacking in the institutions and among the teaching staff.

“We think that to promote the entrepreneurial spirit among young people and to stimulate their entrepreneurial behavior we need practical ways and new tools to stimulate students’ way of thinking. We need also well trained teachers with the right entrepreneurial competencies and motivation”, says the project’s Danish contact person Allan B. Rasmussen.

Through the 24H Camps and the overall project itself the partner’s aim was to bring practice in the entrepreneurship studies, and the partners wanted to include local enterprises and local knowledge about entrepreneurship more actively in the every day entrepreneurship studies and teaching. In order to fulfill these aims, the partners held an international 24H Innovation Camp where students got to explore their knowledge about entrepreneurship in a practical way. It opende up great international international opportunities for the students with joint ventures and trade fairs, and they would learn about different countries, culture, language, import and export etc.

To learn more about the project and the partners visit the European Shared Treasure where the 24H Camp has been marked a star project: http://www.europeansharedtreasure.eu/detail.php?id_project_base=2011-1-FI1-LEO04-06139

FLIP – Flipped Learning in Praxis – Erasmus+ project of 2014

The project FLIP – Flipped Learning in Praxis – is a project based on a partnership between different educational institutions and other relvant operators as universities, secondary schools and stakeholders in the field of teaching material development. The partners come from all over Europa – Iceland, Italy, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Norway and Germany – and has joined together in an Erasmus+ project.

The purpose of the project is to develop guidelines for the implementation of blended learning environments in which information and communication technologies (ICTs) are used to enhance student’s learning environments. In particular, the project seeks to identify common factors across school levels and European contexts that promote:

Effective use of information technologies to support student’s learning
Student-driven learning environments
Student collaboration for project-based learning.

For more information about the project go to this website: http://www.flippedlearning.eu/

CENTRES – Creative Entrepreneurship in Schools - Skills for the Future

The CENTRES project is carried out in a partnership between the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Poland, Slovenia and the United Kingdom.

The project creates a European forum for issues relating to entrepreneurship education specific to creative industries and for sharing innovation and best practice in this field. All of the partners involved in the consortium see a need for increased international networking and a combined European approach, which are currently lacking.

The CENTRES project aims at discovering the best practice and experiences through several pilot projects taking place at schools in the participating countries – practices and experiences that support and promote cooperation bestween schools or educational institutions and creative, innovative businesses. The results of the pilot projects will form the basis for the development of teaching and learning methods and tools, guidelines for cooperation as well as political recommendations.

Visit the CENTRES website: http://centres-eu.org/