Enterprise education in the European Union

	This kit reinforces the European dimension and improves students' skills in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and foreign languages.

Age of pupils: 15-18

Duration: A school year

ICT tools: email, video chat, instant mail, presentation tools, word processors, spreadsheets, databases, image processors, Web  design, discussion groups, video applications, digital cameras.

Subjects: Introduction to professional skills, economy, English, entrepreneur projects, administration and company management,.

Objectives

• Developing entrepreneurial skills through practice by creating a company in a European context.
• Analyzing what self-employment means in the European Union.
• Providing real situations for the use of ICT and foreign languages as tools in a multicultural environment.
• Integrating the European dimension in secondary education.

Pedagogical value

The project aims at immersing students in environments that provide opportunities to integrate and exchange knowledge on how companies work in a European context.

Students in each country create junior companies to import and export typical products from their respective regions. This process involves research, communication and cooperative learning between the two junior companies, involving ICT and the use of foreign languages.  

Students learn from experience as their learning needs arise from the different problems they come across. The teacher and learner’s roles change. The teacher turns into a facilitator, becoming another member of the team while the students play a leading role in the learning process. Some of the skills students will learn are creativity, innovation, decision taking, self-reliance and greater appreciation of the need for lifelong learning.

The products that are imported and exported in these junior companies give the students the opportunity to reflect on issues like European integration and the existing differences and similarities between European countries.

If you want to know more, click here (in PDF, EN only)

	Web Editor:	Nuria de Salvador

	Published :	19/10/2005

	Last changed :	16/02/2007

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