EPALE - Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe

‘Cultivating the Entrepreneurial mindset in Education (CEME)' is a course that aims to teach entrepreneurship as a method that requires practice. The course is structured and geared around the five practices of entrepreneurship education, that is, play, empathy, creation, experimentation and reflection. The participants will have the opportunity to acquire in depth understanding not only of the theory related to the five practices of entrepreneurship education but also how to apply games and exercises in each one of them in order to create a stimulus learning environment. The course ‘Cultivating the Entrepreneurial mindset in Education’ is an ideal course for all those wishing to teach elements of entrepreneurship in the classroom as well as all those wishing to apply the basic building blocks of entrepreneurship in everyday life.

Main Aims

• Understand the concept & the various types of entrepreneurship
• Comprehend the difference between entrepreneurship as a method in comparison with that as a process
• Comprehend the five practices of entrepreneurship education
• Learn how to teach the five practices of entrepreneurship in the classroom
• Understand the importance of both theory & practice in teaching entrepreneurship

Why CEME?

It is widely accepted that entrepreneurship is a critical element for the creation of job opportunities, economic growth and to provide strength to small business and academic institutions. Therefore, entrepreneurship can be categorized as investment and it is very important for a country to flourish its economy. When it comes to entrepreneurship education, most of the scholars tend to agree that entrepreneurship education must a lifelong learning process, starting as early as elementary school and progressing through all levels of education, including adult education. Using this framework, students will have: progressively more challenging educational activities; experiences that will enable them to develop the insight needed to discover and create entrepreneurial opportunities; and the expertise to successfully start and manage their own businesses to take advantage of these opportunities. There have been various studies, all of which agree that people exposed to entrepreneurship frequently express that they have more opportunity to exercise creative freedoms, higher self-esteem, and an overall greater sense of control over their own lives. As a result, many experienced business people political leaders, economists, and educators believe that fostering a robust entrepreneurial culture will maximize individual and collective economic and social success on a local, national, and global scale. When it comes to the benefits of students exposed in the framework of ‘entrepreneurship education’ these can be summarized as follows:

• Increased attendance
• Higher academic achievement
• Awareness of career and entrepreneurial options
• Acquire basic economic understanding
• Acquire basic financial concepts

• Define entrepreneurs’ contribution to society
• Use opportunity recognition/ problem solving skills
• Explore ethics issues
• Consider steps in business startup
• Evaluate ownership structures
• Translate problems into opportunities
• Apply principles of human relations management
• Apply basic accounting principles
• Engage in ethical business practices