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Kick-off meeting of the Innovation Cluster for Entrepreneurship Education

JA Europe in collaboration with four Ministries of Education (Estonia, Finland, Italy and Latvia) and Enterprise Flanders (representing the Ministry in Flanders, Belgium); three research institutes (Eastern Norway Research Institute, The Foundation for Entrepreneurship - Young Enterprise Denmark and the Faculty of Economics in Osijek, J.J. Strossmayer University) and five national JA organizations (Belgium, Finland, Italy, Estonia, and Latvia) are launching the Innovation Cluster for Entrepreneurship Education (ICEE) project.

JA Europe in collaboration with four Ministries of Education (Estonia, Finland, Italy and Latvia) and Enterprise Flanders (representing the Ministry in Flanders, Belgium); three research institutes (Eastern Norway Research Institute, The Foundation for Entrepreneurship - Young Enterprise Denmark and the Faculty of Economics in Osijek, J.J. Strossmayer University) and five national JA organizations (Belgium, Finland, Italy, Estonia, and Latvia) are launching the Innovation Cluster for Entrepreneurship Education (ICEE) project.

The kick-off event will take place on June 3-4, 2015 and will involve the ICEE partners, special guests from the Ministries of Education and Economy in the countries participating in the project and representatives from the schools selected to take part in the research.

The following speakers are scheduled for the event :

• Philippe Muyters, Minister of Work, Economy, Innovation and Sport, Flanders, Belgium
• Rodrigo Ballester, Member of the Cabinet, European Commission, Education, Culture, Youth and Sport
• Sophie Beernaerts, Head of Unit on Schools and Educators, and Multilingualism, DG EAC, European Commission
• Simone Baldassarri, Policy Officer, DG GROW - Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission