Learning Entrepreneurship 5.0
Education and Teacher Training Agency ·Croatia
About this project
<p>The project Learning Entrepreneurship 5.0 aims at creating a model for competence development of teachers from Vukovar-Srijem and Osijek-Baranja counties for managing school cooperatives and introducing the cross-curricular theme of entrepreneurship into their practice. In line with teachers’ needs, teacher professional development programme will be designed through cross-sectoral and bilateral cooperation, focusing on teaching students with special educational needs. Programme will be piloted through training of school cooperatives’ managers. Teachers' competencies related to the promotion and greater visibility of student cooperatives in local community will be strengthened through the organization of student cooperatives’ product fair.</p>
Bilateral cooperation results
The bilateral experience was extremely important for the successful implementation of the project, as members of the expert group had the opportunity to learn about best practices from the Norwegian partner. The project achieves a direct bilateral outcome, with the participation of Vinco Innovation, a company specializing in innovations and entrepreneurial support. Their expertise is currently being transferred to entrepreneurs involved in the implementation of the EEA and Norway Grants entrepreneurship programme, within which they are developing an efficient technology forecasting model, establishing a pilot center for the development of electric vessels, creating a virtual innovation hub, jointly developing products, creating new enterprises, increasing expert exchanges, and launching market-entry initiatives. The bilateral partner has up-to-date knowledge of the most relevant trends in entrepreneurship development and the situation in Croatia. In the development of the professional development programme for teacher innovation, the bilateral partner provided inputs from the perspective of the private sector and entrepreneurship and innovation development through working group meetings. This experience and knowledge were transferred to project participants during the trainer training sessions, included in the handbook, and all project participants had the opportunity to receive concrete feedback. The core of the entire project is institutional and intersectoral collaboration between Croatian and Norwegian partners. All project outputs were generated through cooperation and partnership work. The development of collaboration includes a proposal for ensuring quality standards for the implementation of teacher professional development through trained teachers/trainers in schools in cooperation with the Education and Teacher Training Agency (AZOO), as well as the development of criteria for the participation of new teachers interested in becoming trainers and conducting professional development for their colleagues. This also applies to approving the professional development conducted by non-governmental organizations for teachers. The project lead is the national Agency for Education and Teacher Training, which coordinates all project activities and plans to expand the results to other less developed counties.
Project partners
- Vinco Innovation AS Donor project partner· Norway
- Croatian association of school cooperatives Project partner· Croatia
- Primary School Vođinci Project partner· Croatia
- Primary School Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević Project partner· Croatia