Building Entrepreneurial Mindsets and Skills in the EU

Transversal competences like creativity, sense of initiative and entrepreneurship are vital for innovation to reach the market. Entrepreneurship skills and attitudes should therefore be fostered in students and researchers to develop their proactivity, flexibility, autonomy, the capacity to manage projects and achieve results.

Abstract

Transversal competences like creativity, sense of initiative and entrepreneurship are vital for innovation to reach the market. Entrepreneurship skills and attitudes should therefore be fostered in students and researchers to develop their proactivity, flexibility, autonomy, the capacity to manage projects and achieve results.

Entrepreneurship programmes provide an excellent opportunity to connect the education systems to the local economy and gives incentives for students to remain in a region.

The guide includes:

• Key features of current practice in entrepreneurship training
• Involvement of teachers, business and private organisations
• The Oslo Manual to Entrepreneurship training
• Good practice examples