Entrepreneurial competences for better lives, economies and societies
Entrepreneurial competences help individuals to exert their agency and to add value to their societies and to the economy. More specifically, these competences empower individuals to identify ideas and opportunities, mobilise physical and financial resources and enter into concrete actions. As such entrepreneurial competences are valuable to every citizen and can be applied to any professional, social or personal field of action.
Recognising the importance of entrepreneurial competences, the Member states of the European Union have developed EntreComp. EntreComp is a framework to help the reinforcement of entrepreneurial competences through the provision of innovative education and training. 15 competences have been identified along eight progressive levels of expertise. EntreComp is available is several languages including English, French, Arabic and Russian. EntreComp is therefore very useful for policy makers and teachers to shape new learning approaches and methods For more information see EntreComp: the Entrepreneurship Competence Framework.
ETF has been working at the promotion of Entrepreneurial competences in its Partner countries to enhance people’s employability – especially of youth. We are working in Georgia, Tunisia and Ukraine to develop tools for curricula development, teachers training and assessment of learning outcomes. Challenges are there as Entrepreneurial competences require different teaching and learning references and tools, however progress starts to be evident. As an example in Tunisia starting with the school year 2019-2020 every student in the Vocation education system will be exposed to a new module aiming at helping him/her developing a more entrepreneurial mind-set.
The blog is an opportunity to exchange about concepts and experiences in developing entrepreneurial competences through education and training.
Entrepreneurship key competence is more than financial and economic literacy, it also entails methodological, social and personal competences that have to be developed from early child age onwards throughout the whole education life of a learner. Because competence in the end it is about "behaviour", attitudes, ways of approaching problems, tasks and planning of activities. This is why it would be essential to complement a separate subject approach with developing attitudes and (transversal) competencies in all subjects by introducing active teaching and learning methods, pre- and in-service teacher and school/university manager training. Following a whole school approach further provides the important environment to make those changes happen.
Absolutely! take a look at the personas in this wiki, and you can see the relevance of entrepreneurial competences to a whole range of different people and careers http://entrepreneurial.education/wiki//index.php?title=Category:Persona
These were collected from education colleagues at an EntreComp practice sharing conference last year - to show how the participants felt that EntreComp competences could be used by students, teachers, activists, employees as well as entrepreneurs :)
La question de la conscience que nous sommes en situation d’agir sur notre potentiel entrepreneurial me semble centrale , alors comment agir sur cette conscience
A very valid point! Looking from the point of view of a learner, the consciousness that "I am able to act/influence/contribute/set up XY etc." needs to be triggered early in life. It will not be a person with knowledge about financial and project management acquainted at the age of 14 in one semester who will innovate processes, products or services (as employee or entrepreneur) or solve complex problems in a creative way, but persons who learned to use their ideas, their reflexive abilities, knowledge and skills. How can this be done, for instance by simple letting learners identify a topic for a public speech or project or research paper themselves in any subject. Or by letting learners investigate answers to questions instead to teaching the passive learner what the right answer is - in any subject. When encouraging learners to be active, they learn to be active by default.
It's also important to gain the self-esteem of young people and this can be done by giving them the opportunity to present in public.
Prenons l'exemple du formateur qui va évaluer ou plutôt estimer la monté en compétance entrepreneurial chez l'apprenant, qui va jouer ce rôle pour les centres de formation, en se référant au titre du 5ème forum (VERS UN CENTRE DE FORMATION ENTREPRENEURIAL)
Merci
Many thanks for your contributions. The Forum on the development of entrepreneurial learning held today in Tunisia put forward several issues for common reflection. Here the link to the questions and the streaming https://openspace.etf.europa.eu/events/towards-entrepreneurial-training…
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