Spoonfeeding Entrepreneurship

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• Spoonfeeding Entrepreneurship?
• Entrepreneurial Education Action Plan
• (Flanders)
• Ben.bruyndonckx_at_syntravlaanderen.be

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The main threats

• Lowest degree of entrepreneurship (GEM 3,05)
• Main reason Social Security
• Flemish coalition agreement 2004-2009
• More entrepreneurship, more employment
• the plan to create more jobs
• Eduction kills entrepreneurship

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The opportunities

• Making young people more entrepreneurial
• developing important general personal
  competencies
• improving the quality of life of the individual
• a first step towards more entrepreneurship in
  our society
• in the end more (sustainable) economic growth
  (incl. employment)

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Management

• Steering Committee with representatives from
• Minister and Department of Education
• Minister and Department of Economy
• SYNTRA Flanders (Depending on the Minister of
  Labour)

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The objectives

• Within education (all levels)
• Sensibilisation on entrepreneurship
• Development of entrepreneurial attitudes
• Learning of the basic general entrepreneurial
  competences
• Learning of the basic specific entrepreneurial
  competences

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A dilemma Spoonfeeding Entrepreneurship to
children and young people is an oxymoron
(contradictio in terminis)

• Spoonfeeding
• feeding someone (as a baby) from a spoon
• teaching in an overly simplified way that
  discourages independent thought
• Entrepreneurship
• The disposition to generate ideas about possible
  objectives, to come up with initiatives starting
  from ones own situation and to take actions
  leading to the realisation of perceived chances
  by fully taking advantage of the available means.
  This results in pushing out frontiers and
  creating something new on a long-term basis which
  enhances the quality of life

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Pathway

• Entrepreneurial Spirit
• Entrepreneurial Person My own PROJECT
• Generic Competences Indicating a goal and
  working towards it / Creativity
• Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneur my own BUSINESS
• Generic Competences Persevering / Sense of
  profit / Decisiveness Independence /
  Persuasiveness
• Specific Business Management Competences

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The Action Plan

• 6 Actions
• Knowledge Centre
• Ondernemersklasseweek (Entrepreneurial Class
  Week)
• Research on drivers for success
• Call for projects, building a bridge between
  Economy and Education
• Funding of some initiatives
• Initiatives around the Bussiness Management
  Certificate

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1. Knowledge Centre

• Developement of a virtual Knowledge Centre on
  initiatives (including materials, information,
  events, ) to stimulate the entrepreneurial
  Spirit and Entrepreneurship
• Main target public Trainers and teachers within
  the educational System
• www.competento.be (in Dutch)

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1. Competento Database structure

• Categories
• Documents on policy and research reports
• Contacts and interchange education ?? business
• Models, Methods () and Course materials ()
• Networks concerning Entrepreneurial Learning
• Training for trainers, teachers and educators
• Screening instruments for entrepreneurial
  competences
• Contests
• Specific courses

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2. Ondernemersklasseweek

• Main objective to highlight actions on
  entrepreneurship in Schools and Training Centres
• During one week
• Theme 2008 a sense of initiative
• Included scription-contest
• Advantage Perseved as NEUTRAL
• European dimension???

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3. Research

• 2 activities, organized by
• Study on How to promote Entrepreneurship within
  and via Education
• Symposium on the subject (okt. 24th.)

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4. Bridge Projects

• Call for projects, building a bridge between
  economy and education
• Main aim enhancing the spirit of
  entrepreneurship
• Call 2006 2.500.000 euro
• max. 50 per project
• Max. 250.000 per project
• 14 projects selected

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5. Structural funding of initiatives

• 2 different initiatives on Mini-enterprises in
  schools are being funded
• www.vlajo.be
• www.leeronderneming.be

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6. The Business Management Certificate

• What NOT
• NO specific objectives on entrepreneurial spirit
  or entrepreneurship in education
• NO national curriculum on Business Management
  (freedom of education)
• New Federal law on the basic elements of the
  Business Management Certificate (for Sept. 08)

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6. Initiatives

• Qualification Framework Experiment
• Integration of the generic entrepreneurial
  (ENTRE-) competences
• Competence-based approach, linked with Business
  Plan
• Pilot SYNTRA Vlaanderen

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