ln order to reduce unemployment, the entrepreneurial education is considered a key factor for competitiveness and employment, social inclusion and personal development. The rapid changes in the information society continuously require new skills and new information. ln order to adapt to this need we need a new type of attitude, initiative and responsibility. The valorization of entrepreneurial attitude will improve traditional education, preparing people for life and offering the opportunities to adult people to find their place in the labour market, either by more easily finding a new job as a result of having an entrepreneurial attitude and mindset, or by starting and running their own business.
The role of education as a foundation for the future and as the main factor responsible for the development of professional skills is to encourage adult learners to practice by developing innovative ideas centered on creativity, through a process of ”learning by doing”. Learning though ecosystems of entrepreneurship will be even more urgent in the near and more distant future, because low-skilled jobs are systematically disappearing from the European labor market.
Unfortunately, at the moment the education systems across Europe are not delivering this, as they are either based on traditional general empowerment or on the training of specific skills. Therefore they are not responding to the need for entrepreneurial learning, innovative learning settings and interaction with real-life situations.
Our project aims to incubate and promote the entrepreneurial spirit through the development of a model ecosystem, which will stimulate creativity and entrepreneurship.
The main aim of the project is, therefore, to empower trainers to create ecosystems of entrepreneurial learning for adult education, by assuming the role of the drivers of such ecosystems. The specific objectives of the project are:
-Promoting entrepreneurial culture by creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem, oriented to change, innovation and creativity
-Developing entrepreneurship at different levels of training as an incentive for people through strengthening entrepreneurial initiatives as a source of progress
-Developing entrepreneurial skills among people by raising awareness towards entrepreneurial culture
The project outcomes will be published on the project website, offering scenario-based guidance to help trainers and adult educators across Europe to create entrepreneurial education and learning. As intellectual outputs we present the full list of key outcome products:
-ENTRELAB online platform (with different interactive functionalities)
-ENTRELAB entrepreneurial guide ‘Έuropean opportunities in entrepreneurial education”
-ENTRELAB training kit ‘Έntrepreneurial learning in adult education”
-e-Book ENTRELAB ‘Έnhanced ENTREpreneurial attitude in adult education for a better LABour market integration”
The primary target group will consist of trainers selected from/by the partner organisations and local partners (stakeholders). They will be the mentors, by using the peer training method, to the secondary target group which will consist of larger group of trainers from the partner communities – decision makers in the field of education- who will be involved in developing the local ecosystems of entrepreneurial learning.