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Our school is located in Turnhout (bELGIUM), near the ring road and along the city park. We offer academic (ASO - as from 1st September 2015), technical (TSO) and vocational (BSO) secondary education. Within the Flemish educational system we are one of the few schools that belong to the urban education system.
Our study programmes focus on the domains of trade & ICT, sport, publicity and tourism. We aim to offer quality education through which we guide our students as efficiently as possible in their learning and living attitude. In addition, we create a pleasant and open school climate by focusing on each student’s talents and by allowing them to make their own choices in their learning process. We also pay extra attention to special care and foreign language speakers. At present, our school has 554 students and around 95 enthusiastic teachers.
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Entrepreneurship has had a high priority for many years now and we value the importance of it for every student at our school. Since 2012 we have proudly used the title of Vlajo Ambassador School. At our school, entrepreneurship is fully integrated from the first degree to the third degree, in both economic and non-economic study programmes.
Below is an overview of the most important activities with regard to entrepreneurship education:
- First degree: Our students take part in small company visits and project work in their classroom (e.g. budgeting).
- Second degree: Our vocational students play the online game Vlajo Challenge. In this business game they become the owner of their own virtual store. Our technical students take part in the Vlajo project Jieha! in which they establish their own mini company with a focus on ecological, biological or regional products.
- Third degree: The students start their own Vlajo Mini Company and choose or make their own products or services. They manage their own company according to real business rules: brainstorming about an idea, defining the mission and goals, doing market research, determining the product range, gathering start-up capital, writing the business plan, planning sales activities, organising shareholder meetings and so on. This school year there will be as many as 12 Vlajo Mini Companies doing business with students from different study programmes: 6th grade Trade, 7th grade Sales, 7th grade Business Support, 6th grade IT-management and 6th grade Physical education and Sport.
We regularly invite entrepreneurs to our classrooms. That way our students can ask their burning questions to the business managers. Our teachers stay up-to-date through regular company visits and trainings regarding entrepreneurial education.
"We are strongly convinced of the benefits of the Vlajo mini company. Through the ICEE research project we can concretely identify the impact of the mini company on the learning process of the students. In addition we find it particularly interesting to get to know better the field of entrepreneurial education across borders. With the results of the project we hope to convince our government of the benefits of entrepreneurial education and obtain more room for it in the attainment goals. That way every student will get the opportunity to develop his or her entrepreneurial skills within the secondary school curriculum".
SCHOOL WEBSITE: http://handelsschool.ego4.turnhout.preview.anaxis.be
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Valmiera Technical School is one of the largest educational institutions in the Latvian region of Vidzeme. In 2015 academic year, there are 704 students involved in 12 different specialties and 6 specialties in Ranka region – a territorial unit of Valmiera Technical School.
Thanks to the European Union and the Latvian public funds, in the late years, Valmiera Technical School has turned into a modern and contemporary professional educational institution. The new Technical Building of the Valmiera Technical School has been opened in November 2015 with well-equipped rooms, modern laboratories, training restaurant and hostel. This new facility will bring together young people both from Vidzeme and other Latvian regions and, with its activities, contribute to Vidzeme, Latvian and European business growth and development.
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The mission of Valmiera Technical School is to support the development of educated, creative, and competitive personalities, which are in demand in the labour market in Latvia and in the European Union. The school provides high-quality vocational training programmes that are in line with the needs of the labour market. The school works on skilled workforce attraction and retention in Vidzeme region.
By providing a well organised, safe, attractive and modern school environment, Valmiera Technical School focuses on values that bring to educated, positive and spiritually strong young people; professional, competent and growth orientated teachers; a positive and loyal team spirit - the cooperation is based on openness, honesty, tolerance and respect among the school, students and their parents.
Valmiera Technical School has been a pioneer in cooperating with local businesses, creating a dual labour-environment-based education programmes. This model requires the learner to spend only one or two days a week in an educational institution and to work the rest of the time in close cooperation with a company from the local community. In this way young people become more entrepreneurial and learn how to adapt and integrate in a new environment. The school has a successful collaboration with Ltd “Valmiera Glass Group”.
"We are open to change and we are looking forward to the competitive vocational training in the future" - said Ēriks Spuriņš Headmaster of Valmiera Technical School.
“The number of student-led companies at Valmiera Technical School increases every year. Students are hard-working, creative, and full of ideas. It proves that we are working in the right direction” - said Agita Šamšele Valmiera Technical School teacher and ICEE coordinator.
SCHOOL WEBSITE: www.vpvsk.lv
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Võru Upper Secondary State School is one of the newly established state schools in Estonia. The school started its work on 1 September 2015 and it is located in a renovated, new and technologically well- equipped building.
Only secondary school students study at Võru Upper Secondary State School, they are 241 at the moment. When starting with studies at our school, students can make a choice between three fields of study: sciences, humanities and natural sciences. One of the peculiarities of our school is the fact that our students can make an additional choice between a wide range of interesting optional subjects like monetary literacy, English language and culture in films, drama, volleyball, music, and religion.
32 employees work at Võru Upper Secondary State School.
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The aim of the study courses on economy and entrepreneurship as well as of the student Company Programme is to develop an enterprising spirit in our students (e.g. creative and innovative thinking, ambition, and intelligent management). An enterprising person is the type coping with himself and in case of need being able to produce changes in the society either by becoming an employer, an employee, a volunteer etc.
Our school has been a JA Estonia partner school since 2015. Economy and entrepreneurship are taught according to JA Estonia programmes and, in particular, strongly supported by the student Company Programme which involves around 80 students. At the moment, the Company Programme has two supervisors but we are gradually going to train other employees.
“I have seen and felt positive influence on the young people who have participated in Company Programme. They are more enterprising, brave and creative. They are people who you can trust and who will make a difference in the future” - said Karmo Kurvits, school principal.
SCHOOL WEBSITE: http://voru.edu.ee/index.php/et/
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Our academic school, the Liceo Scientifico Leonardo, consists of three different lyceums: Scientific Lyceum with Applied Sciences option, Art Lyceum and Linguistic Lyceum. It is located in Brescia and it has 1,765 students.
The school has always had an innovative approach to education with a broad vision for the future. It is equipped with the most modern scientific laboratories, artistic studios and a music room.
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The school has always been characterized by achieving excellent results in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry Olympic games, in Languages Championships and in artistic exhibitions and competitions. Good results have also been achieved in amateur theatrical performances.
We are an academic school and for this reason we haven't undertaken many entrepreneurial projects over the years but a few years ago our school started participating in the Company Programme of Junior Achievement. This programme has been accepted with great enthusiasm by all members, head teacher, teachers and students, believing that entrepreneurship education is for opening doors for the future of young people.
"We all know that a successful entrepreneur must be resourceful, intuitive, creative, self-motivated but he/she also needs to have team spirit. A good leader must be supported by an efficient and cohesive team to obtain good results and the school represents one of the best place to develop this important attitude. We have to teach students to work together and to become the entrepreneur of their own future" - said De Zulian, ICEE coordinator teacher.
SCHOOL WEBSITE: www.liceoleonardobs.gov.it/nuovo
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Koninklijk Atheneum is mainly an academic school, with one technical and one vocational study orientation. Our school is located in the city centre of Tienen (Belgium), close by the main square and easily accessible by the ring road. The school enrolls around 760 students.
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In the framework of entrepreneurship education our school participates in several activities and projects:
3rd degree (17-18y): during the final year students have the opportunity to get in touch and interact with entrepreneurs from the local community by participating in “Ondernemers voor de klas”, a Vlajo project translated as entrepreneurs in the classroom.- 2nd & 3rd degree (15-18y): students can decide to take part in a management game by learning about important management topics such as the impact decisions have on profit, estimating losses and taking necessary actions to adjust them, etc.
- 2nd degree technical studies - Trade (15-16y): possibility to take part in Trade: Jieha!, a Vlajo project organised as preparation for the mini-company programme.
- 3rd degree technical studies - Accountancy-IT: mini-company programme.
- 3rd degree academic studies - Economics-Languages: the mini-company as an optional course. Motivated students who choose for economics have the possibility to obtain the certificate of business management. This certificate is one of the requirements to start your own company later on.
- 3rd degree vocational studies – Office : through a virtual company students get to know the importance of entrepreneurship, buying and selling, drafting necessary documents, etc.
Thanks to ICEE, also students in other academic study orientations (Economics-Languages-Mathematics-Sciences) are participating in the mini-company programme. Through the project, we hope to stimulate entrepreneurship both among students and non-involved teachers. Feedback from parents is very positive so far.
“By organizing entrepreneurship-related activities for already some years and by participating in the ICEE project, we want to strive for more appreciation for entrepreneurship. We want to encourage our students to have a positive attitude towards entrepreneurship, we want to teach them that innovation and the willingness to take risks are very important to realize an entrepreneurial society. We hope that our students will become more entrepreneurial by participating in the ICEE project and that they will learn the right entrepreneurial skills to achieve successes in both their professional and private lives” - Kaat Vandesavel, Koninklijk Atheneum's principal.
SCHOOL WEBSITE: http://www.katienen.be
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