Idea generation and entrepreneurship: training the European key competences

Based on EntreComp, the “Entrepreneurship Competence Framework”, the course conceives entrepreneurship as a cross key expertise. Through a challenge and project based approach, teachers can test processes and tools to design and lead students to promote social and life skills.

Participants will go through an ideation process via peer learning, team working and expert trainers.

They will learn about:

– How to motivate students to work in a team and independently

– How to promote students’ self-initiative

– How to design school projects to promote students’ entrepreneurship

They will face:

– Problem mapping and challenges definition

– Brainstorming, qualitative and quantitative analysis and benchmark

– Lean approach to ideas evolution.

– Project management, sustainability, pitching and stakeholder engagement.

Designed by Fondazione Golinelli in cooperation with Uniser.

4 days programme & 2 day travel: dates to be agreed

Venue: Fondazione Golinelli, Bologna- Italy

Language: English

Indicative Daily Programme

Day 1

• Partners and project presentation
• Get to know and workshop on expectations and background experiences
• Entrepreneurship ad school: introductory speech and workshop
• Facilitation workshop: how can we structure the promotion of students’ self-initiative and teamwork?
• Creating working team for all the week

Day 2

Ideation process through peer learning – part I

• Problem mapping and challenges definition with the design thinking approach
• Brainstorming, qualitative and quantitative analysis and benchmark
• Closure round table

Day 3

Job shadowing: best practice presentation

Ideation process through peer learning – part II

• School lean canvas: from lean approach and ideas evolution.
• Project management, sustainability and stakeholder engagement.
• Closure round table

Day 4 

• Team pitching
• What I’m bringing home?
• Final evaluation and debriefing session