The main objectives of the project are to increase creativity of students, to increase learning of a foreign language and ICT tools, to exchange pedagogical methods linked to vocational subjects, to make new friends, to develop the personalities of all participants and to support young people to take part in activities that will give them an insight about local entrepreneurship. In a first step students will create a web site which will be the source of communication and information and will showcase our findings. During the project the partners will share their existing best practices in various forms of local entrepreneurship and will explore the possibilities of new local development (new work places, employment). We will focus on enterprises in the fields of local products, rural tourism, organic farming as well as social enterprises and “green” enterprises. The students will also create a student company in their school as well as a forum for virtual trade in the internet where they can buy and sell chosen products during the project process. This will broaden knowledge and the competences of students in the fields of marketing, promotion (using ICT tools) and sales management. At the very end of the project the students will compile a booklet (both in printed and in CD-ROM form) which will present each city’s or town’s best practices in various forms of enterprises and also a section with useful information for young entrepreneurs.

• Subjects: Economics
• Languages: EN
• Pupil's age: 15 - 19
• Tools to be used: Chat, e-mail, Forum, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Twinspace, Video conference, Virtual learning environment (communities, virtual classes, ...), Web publishing
• Aims: The main objectives of the project are • To develop entrepreneurial skills to students through practice and experience as their learning needs... read moreThe main objectives of the project are • To develop entrepreneurial skills to students through practice and experience as their learning needs arise from the different problems they come across. • Compare similarities and differences between EU countries • Provide real situations for the use of ICT and foreign languages • To assist students in their development of personal, creative entrepreneurial skills and attitudes • To support young people to take part in activities that will give them an insight about local entrepreneurship. • Analyze what self-employment means in the European Union. • create better conditions for transition to working life and reinforce or create closer links of VET with working life with the participation of local enterprises. • Provide specific business skills and knowledge of how to start and successfully run a company. hide
• Work process: Each partner is responsible for organizing a visit to his school and country, with the collaboration of other partners and... read moreEach partner is responsible for organizing a visit to his school and country, with the collaboration of other partners and with the involvement of local and regional enterprises. The activities aim at showing the different forms of entrepreneurship of each country with the active student participation and involvement of local and regional enterprises and authorities. Each partner will plan company visits to show the types and functions of local enterprises. Each partner involved in the project will develop, for onward submission to the first visit a multimedia presentation describing the school. In a first step students will create a web site which will be the source of communication and information and will showcase our findings.Each partner will also assume their tasks and include the project into the school curriculum. The project coordinator will coordinate all activities during the development of the project. All partners will communicate through new information technologies and communication. This can be done by exchanging emails, chats, virtual meetings, social networking websites and video conferencing. In addition, students involved in the project will be in contact with students from other partner countries through the Internet (email, chat, social networking websites ...). English wiil be the communication language. There will be the collaboration of local and regional enterprises, trade associations or authorities to achieve the objectives of the project. All students involved in the project are an active part in its development and the achievement of its objectives. Students will design and develop, with the collaboration of teachers, material that is part of the project results. Multimedia presentations, interviews, graphic documents, etc. will be designed and presented by the students. The students will also create a student company in their school as well as a forum for virtual trade in the internet where they can buy and sell chosen products during the project process. At the very end of the project the students will compile a booklet (both in printed and in CD-ROM form).There will be constant evaluation of the project from the beginning to the end through reports, materials worked out by students, questionnaires, discussions with students and teachers involved in the project activities. hide
• Expected results: online seminars, website, student company, Booklet(print and CD-ROM)

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