Entrepreneurship Education in Europe
Simone Baldassarri
Entrepreneurship & Social Economy
DG Enterprise and Industry
20 March 2013
The EU citizens are less eager to be entrepreneurs...Answer to the question “Do you prefer to be self employed or an entrepreneur to being an employee?”
37%
51%
56%
In the EU men are more likely than women to prefer self-employment (by a margin of 42% to 33%), while women are more likely to prefer working as an employee (63% to 53%).
• 1. Entrepreneurial education and training• create new generations of entrepreneurs
• 2. Creating an environment where entrepreneurs can flourish and grow
• 3. Role models and reaching out = radical cultural change• entrepreneurship as 'the new cool’ • more involvement of women, unemployed youth, migrants,
seniors
Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan:
Skills acquired in student companies
Personal skills: Business skills:
• Team working • Basic economics
• Communication • Financial literacy
• Self-confidence • Developing market research
• Taking initiative • Drafting a business plan
• Problem-solving • Raising finance
• Taking calculated risk • Sales techniques
• Leadership • Running a business meeting
Elements of a Strategy
7
Entrepreneurial approach:
• Training “in”, learning
• Also personal competences
• Flexible, adaptable
• Training material, cases
• Student oriented
• Group process, interaction
• “Clash room”, diversity
• More coaching role for teacher
• Project, interdisciplinary
• Close to real life and business
• Action oriented
Traditional approach:
• Education “about”
• Knowledge in disciplines
• Fixed study plan
• Textbooks
• Teacher oriented
• Class, individual activity
• Classroom, homogeneous
• Lecturing
• Subjects, disciplines
• Close to research, academia
• Study, theory oriented
Martin Lauth, 2010
• Exchange of experience and good practice, networking
• Support European projects (co-financing)
• Publish guidelines and self-assessment tools
• Studies, work on indicators and data collection
• Monitoring progress
Activities at EU level
Entrepreneurship 2020 – EU level
•Develop a European network or hub for entrepreneurial learning
•Reinforce co-operation and the exchange of experience between the Member States
Entrepreneurship 2020 – Member States
• Embed the key competence "entrepreneurship" into curricula (all levels).
• Young people should have at least one practical entrepreneurial experience before leaving secondary education (e.g. running a mini-company, being responsible for an entrepreneurial project for a company or a social project, etc.)
• Create a Europe-wide on-line mentoring, advisory, educational and business networking platform for women entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship 2020 – EU level
•THANK YOU
