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The Sint-Theresiacollege is a school for general education. After graduation students are prepared to go to higher education.
The school is situated in a rural area. The vision of the founders was to provide local youth with secondary education to that they wouldn't have to travel to the cities. This appeared to be a success: the school teaches general education to over 1,100 students.
The school is known in the area for having a good portfolio of activities like exchanges, mini enterprises, school trips and participation to all kinds of competitions - mostly with good results obtained by the participating students.
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Entrepreneurship is considered as an asset for the students. It's never about making as much profit as possible but it's about taking responsibility, developing initiative skills and cooperating with peers. Each student can choose a project per two hours a week. One of the projects is the mini enterprise programme. Within this project, students are responsible of the administration, accountancy, communication, marketing and finance of their own enterprise. The activities students develop are being evaluated by teachers from different areas. This makes it possible to evaluate not only financial results of the companies, but also the learning process of the students.
'Being part of a mini enterprise was a lot more work than I expected. But it’s also a lot more fun and interesting than I expected’ - said a student participating in the ICEE project.
SCHOOL WEBSITE: http://www.stk.be
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Professional Education Competence Centre “Liepaja State Technical School” (Liepājas Valsts tehnikums) was established in 1920 and it was the second technical secondary school that was established in Latvia. Through the years the institution has provided professional education.
The school offers various educational programmes such as "Hotel services", "Catering services", "Woodwork manufacturing", "Transportation", "Energetic and Electrical Engineering", "Mechatronics", "Metalworking" and "Construction works". In these educational programmes there are more than 1000 students.
Thanks to the recent significant investment of Regional European Development Fund, the school now has become one of the most modern professional educational institutions in Kurzeme region in Latvia. Since last year the newly renovated buildings and modern equipment offers to the students of Liepaja State Technical School a professional education on a new quality level.
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Liepaja State Technical School is JA Latvia member school already for several years. Every year many students develop their student companies, sell their production in regional and national Fair Trades and compete in the competitions. The school collaborates also with many professional organisations and associations, reducing the gap between the education system and labor market. Every year the teachers and students also participate in different international projects in Comenius and Erasmus+ programs. With the support of European Social Fund the school also has professional programmes for NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) youth to include them into the labor market.
“Not everyone will be entrepreneurs, but those who run a student company gain a valuable experience to add to their resume, and in this way they will become better competitors in the labour market" - said Agris Ruperts, director of Liepaja State Technical School.
SCHOOL WEBSITE: http://www.lvt.lv/en/
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Helsinki Upper Secondary School of Languages is a non-graded upper secondary school in eastern Helsinki. Our school has two available study programmes to choose from: a general programme and a language programme. There are about 580 students aged 16 -19 in our school. Each year 121 students participate in the general programme and 70 in the language programme. Our school is one of the few schools in Finland with a special educational task in the field of languages. The following languages are available in the school curriculum: English, Swedish, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Chinese and Japanese. In addition to languages, instruction emphasises international affairs, knowledge of foreign cultures and arts, sustainable development and future skills.
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We offer one course in entrepreneurship. During the course, students set up mini-companies and take care of them. In addition, they visit real companies and entrepreneurs visit the school. The ICEE project has brought new ideas to our entrepreneurship course. For example, last November we organised a Mini Fair for all of our students and teachers, during which the companies introduced themselves and shared their business ideas. Two guest entrepreneurs told the students of their own entrepreneurial stories. Some companies also sold their products. In December, we organised Christmas sales where the mini-companies sold their products for students and teachers. Next April we will participate in the International Student Company Festival in Latvia for the first time. Hopefully, we will also organise the first business camp in 2017.
Last year a few of our teachers participated in the Helsinki entrepreneurship education path project. This project contributed to our entrepreneurship education and enforced the students’ working life skills. Last November all teachers were involved in entrepreneurship education workshops that gave us a lot of information about entrepreneurship. Some teachers will also participate in the OPE TET event, during which where they will have a chance to visit real companies.
Last January about a 100 students took part in an event called “Now” held in the Itäkeskus shopping center. They were given information on how to apply for a job, and they also visited the companies located in the shopping mall. The second-year students participated in a Career Day and blogged about their experiences.
“The ICEE project has been like winning the lottery. We are extremely grateful to be involved in this project. We have received new ideas, which have strengthened the entrepreneurship education in our school. The financial resources of the project will make it possible to bravely make new experiments and travel abroad. The goal is that all our students will have a chance to be trained in entrepreneurship and learn how to develop an entrepreneurial attitude towards everything they do” - said Päivi Siltala-Keinänen, Deputy Principal, Teacher and Project Leader of ICEE at Helsinki Upper Secondary School of Languages.
SCHOOL WEBSITE: http://www.hel.fi/www/kielilu/fi
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“Pacinotti-Archimede” High School is situated in the area called “Nuovo Salario” in Rome, Italy. It was born out of a union between two historical schools of the neighbourhood: ITIS Pacinotti and Archimede High School. Curricula avaiable are:
- ITIS (specialization in Electrotechnics, Electronics and IT).
- Applied Science High School
- Applied Sports Science High School
- Scientific High School
The number of students is around 1600.
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The school vision is to lead students towards entrepreneurship, to discover their unique talent and opportunities in a constantly changing world. The talent is a special skill that allows a person or a group of people to do something well. The talent emerges from natural skills and/or from the involvement in areas of interest or passion. It is not simply a natural “gift”. In conclusion, the school vision is to promote a new mentality: “the job has not to be found, it has to be created!”
The school has been collaborating by several years with different partner companies in order to develop students’ entrepreneurial mentality:
- Junior Achievement Italy (project: “Company Programme” – from 2013/14 onwards)
- Fondazione Mondo Digitale, INAIL, CNA, companies and artisans from Lazio (project: “The Italian makers” – from 2013/14 onwards)
- Regione Lazio (project: “BIC Lazio: “entrepreneurs among school desks” – 2013/14 and 2015/16)
- IGS (project: ”Students Lab” – 2014/15)
In order to further support students’ growth from the entrepreneurial point of view, the school has established different partnerships to allow students to develop skills in the job market with various local and national companies: Rosiglioni Impianti (electromedical equipment), Click (Monterotondo – electric system design), ITI (energy systems planning), TERIS (photovoltaic systems), TELECOM (telecommunication systems), ACEA Distribuzione (generating systems, energy distribution and transport), etc.
The quotation at the entrance of our “Innovation Gym”, which summarizes the school vision, is the following: “Everyone knows that something is impossible to create, until somebody who is unaware of that comes along and invents it” - A. Einstein.
SCHOOL WEBSITE: http://www.pacinottiarchimede.gov.it/
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Kuressaare Ametikool (Kuressaare Regional Training Centre) is a vocational educational institution located on an island of Saaremaa, Western Estonia. The school has 800 students and provides initial and additional vocational training and retraining in wide areas of specialties both for young people and adults. Fields of study are: design and handicraft; building and construction; information and communication technologies; motor vehicles; small craft and boat building; materials (plastic, wood, metal); care of the elderly and of disabled adults; child care; hair and beauty services; food processing; hotel, restaurants and catering; travel, tourism and leisure; management and administration.
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Kuressaare Ametikool’s mission is to prepare a competitive and succeeding workforce. In addition to specific trade, all students learn the basics of entrepreneurship, create their own business ideas and business plans.
For many years our school has offered in-depth entrepreneurship education and many people have learned small business entrepreneurship or business administration. This know-how and experience is one strength we are planning to use in the future for providing more practical and active possibilities for all the students regardless of their chosen curricula.
School has a long-time tradition of founding and running student companies by design and business administration students. With the ICEE project this has spread to the other departments as well.
"Nobody achieves anything without effort. The student company has put forward energetic and active students for leadership positions, and this has helped us to move forward quickly. Our student company, who specialise in ICT training, got their first order within a few weeks of starting" - said Madis Roosipuu, head of client relations, Student company Tutorial Corp, 2nd year software developer student.
SCHOOL WEBSITE: http://www.ametikool.ee/
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