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The Entrepreneur's Skills Certificate: Unlocking Entrepreneurial Potential

The Entrepreneur's Skills Certificate is an additional qualification for developing an entrepreneurial mindset, supported by innovative learning tools and technologies. It meets the aims of the European Commission initiative and provides high-quality entrepreneurship education for all pupils throughout the EU.

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The Entrepreneur's Skills Certificate: Unlocking Entrepreneurial Potential

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  1. The Entrepreneur´s Skills Certificate Concept and materials May 28, 2009 www.bitonline.cc

  2. EU calls upon all Member States to safeguard the provision of entrepreneurship education Action Plan: The European agenda for Entrepreneurship (COM(2004)70final)The Commission has called upon Member States:  to integrate entrepreneurship education into all schools’ curricula and provide schools with proper support to allow them to put in place effective and high quality education schemes  to ensure high quality entrepreneurship education for all pupils throughout the EU 2

  3. The Entrepreneur’s Skills Certificate ... • ... is an additional qualification for entrepreneurial mindset • ... leads to the awarding of an international certificate • ... is supported by innovative learning tools & technologies • ... meets the aims of the European Commission initiative (Entrepreneurship competence) • …was awarded best practice in Oslo 2007 and “Good Practice Exchange under the European charter for small enterprises 2008-2009”.

  4. Level Modules Content BasicLevel A Fundamental Economic Know -How Examination B Key Aspects of Economics Examination C Key Aspects of Business Administration Examination Advanced Level Supplementary knowledge at the level of a Business Administration exam UP Examination

  5. The benefits… ... for entrepreneurs ... for students ... for educators Easily integrated within the curriculum A better start as entrepreneur Training and certicationat the level of Business Administration Increased cooperation between schools and business community Verifiable academic success A uniform standard A better start at universities Additional skills Better qualified staff Qualified further education Easier career choices Better competitiveness A substitute for the Entrepreneur´s Examination Additional teacher´s materials 

  6. The ESC teaching and learning products consist of... • e-ESC- the learning programme • Learning sequences • Training sequences • Textbooks for students • Basic contents and in-depth information • Exercises / questionaires • Teacher support materials • Teacher book with didactic suggestions • Materials on CD(Exercises, ppt-slides,…)

  7. ESC – Learning Sequences • Multimedia learning and excercise pages • Text, graphics, sound and audio • Basic info & self-test materialson the main level • Detailed info & supplementary material

  8. For every learning sequence the appropriate training sequence • Training sequences in flash-card mode • Correctly answered questions are put aside as „finished“ • Incorrectly solved exercises are moved to the end • Practice until the „exercise stack“ is mastered • For comprehensive repetition / test preparation, all of the exercises can be repeated ? ? x x x x  

  9. The ESC Online Testing Solution • A dedicated testing system has been developed for the ESC exam. • Authorised test centres will be equipped with this testing system, which will be used for executing the exams. • Any training institution that fulfills the system requirements for the standardised exam, can become an authorised test centre. • Not only the testing system (automatic test evaluation), but the quesiton pool as well, is uniform – objective testing is guaranteed.

  10. Test System & Test Evaluation • Automatic test evaluation at the end of the test • Test results for students and examiners

  11. ESC: References • Austria: around 20.000 practicioners so far • Germany: over 15.000 practicioners since 2007 • Luxemburg: starting 2009 • Upcoming: Switzerland, Ireland, UK, France, Poland, Czech Republic, UAE, Russia, Kosovo, Rumania

  12. Thank you for your attention ! Stefan Düss stefan.duess@bitonline.cc www.bitonline.cc

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