Sector – DG Enterprise & Industry

Title - Entrepreneurship Education

Aim - The objective of this call for proposals is to support European projects in the field of education for entrepreneurship aiming to give people the skills, knowledge and attitudes to act in an entrepreneurial way and to approach entrepreneurship at all level of education.

 Actions will target teachers and young people in primary, secondary and tertiary education.

 Projects to be supported will focus on one of the following objectives (priority areas):

• Creating trans-European models for primary and secondary school teachers to support the development of their skills and methods in applying entrepreneurial learning to different teaching subjects and to different contexts.
• Developing, organising and executing cross-European training/education workshops for teachers of entrepreneurship at institutions of higher education (universities, colleges, business schools, universities of applied sciences, etc.).
• Creating a European online platform for teachers/educators to enable the cross-border exchange of good practice, methods and teaching materials in the field of entrepreneurship education.
• Developing and testing a European common framework of tools and indicators to assess entrepreneurial mind-sets, attitudes and skills acquired by students in entrepreneurship education.

The total amount available for the programme is 2.45million EURO. This grant is supported by the European Commission and the call has an overall deadline of 16 April 2012. The Max EU co-financing which is available for this project is up to 60%.

Eligible Applicants –

Applicants must be legal persons and applicants must meet the following definition: any public or private entity whose core activity is in the field of entrepreneurship education. Such entities may include: Public administrations at all levels, National, regional and local authorities, Educational institutions (primary and secondary schools, vocational schools, universities, etc.),NGOs, associations and foundations active in the related fields, Education and training providers (public and private), Chambers of commerce and industry and similar bodies, Business associations and business support networks.

Eligible Countries -

The European Union Member States eligible for this call are: 27 EU Member States, The European Economic Area countries (Liechtenstein and Norway), Candidate countries (Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro and Turkey), Albania, Israel and Serbia (competitiveness and innovation programme participants). Applicants must act in a transnational consortium with partner organisations from at least two other countries.

How to apply