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Concept and materials
May 28, 2009
The Entrepreneur´s Skills Certificate
EU calls upon all Member States to safeguard the provision of entrepreneurship education
Action Plan: The European agenda for Entrepreneurship (COM(2004)70final)The Commission has called upon Member States:
to integrate entrepreneurship education into all schools’ curricula and provide schools with proper support to allow them to put in place effective and high quality education schemes
to ensure high quality entrepreneurship education for all pupils throughout the EU
The Entrepreneur’s Skills Certificate ...
... is an additional qualification for entrepreneurial mindset
... leads to the awarding of an international certificate
... is supported by innovative learning tools & technologies
... meets the aims of the European Commission initiative (Entrepreneurship competence)
…was awarded best practice in Oslo 2007 and “Good Practice Exchange under the European charter for small enterprises 2008-2009”.
Modules Content
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B
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UP
Examination
Examination
Examination
Examination
Fundamental Economic Know -How
Key Aspects of Economics
Key Aspects of Business Administration
Supplementary knowledge at the level of a Business Administration exam
BasicLevel
Advanced Level
Level
The benefits…
... for entrepreneurs... for entrepreneurs ... for educators... for educators... for students... for students
Training and certicationat the level of
Business Administration
A uniform standard
Better qualified staff
Better competitiveness
Additional skills
Increased cooperation between schools and business community
Easily integrated within the curriculum
Verifiable academic success
Qualified further education
Additional teacher´s materials
Easier career choices
A better start at universities
A better start as entrepreneur
A substitute for the Entrepreneur´s
Examination
e-ESC- the learning programme Learning sequences Training sequences
Textbooks for students Basic contents and in-depth information Exercises / questionaires
Teacher support materials Teacher book with didactic suggestions Materials on CD
(Exercises, ppt-slides,…)
The ESC teaching and learning products consist of...
ESC – Learning Sequences
Multimedia learning and excercise pages Text, graphics, sound
and audio
Basic info & self-test materialson the main level
Detailed info & supplementary material
For every learning sequence the appropriate training sequence
Training sequences in flash-card mode Correctly answered questions
are put aside as „finished“ Incorrectly solved exercises are moved to the end Practice until the „exercise stack“ is mastered For comprehensive repetition / test preparation, all of
the exercises can be repeated
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The ESC Online Testing Solution
A dedicated testing system has been developed for the ESC exam.
Authorised test centres will be equipped with this testing system, which will be used for executing the exams.
Any training institution that fulfills the system requirements for the standardised exam, can become an authorised test centre.
Not only the testing system (automatic test evaluation), but the quesiton pool as well, is uniform – objective testing is guaranteed.
Test System & Test Evaluation Automatic test evaluation at the end of the test Test results for students and examiners
ESC: References
Austria: around 20.000 practicioners so far Germany: over 15.000 practicioners since 2007 Luxemburg: starting 2009 Upcoming: Switzerland, Ireland, UK, France, Poland,
Czech Republic, UAE, Russia, Kosovo, Rumania
