ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION – NEEDS AND PERSPECTIVES FOR THE EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES

DOMAIN IN ROMANIA

Junior Researcher, Romanian Institute for Adult EducationPhD Student, University of Bucharest

CĂTĂLIN MARTIN

Content

Entrepreneurship – strategy and discipline

Research Methodology

Entrepreneurial intentions

Interest to study entrepreneurship

Usefulness of entrepreneurship education course

Conclusions

Entrepreneurship – strategy and discipline

Europe 2020 - A European Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth

Education and Training 2020 Strategy - Developing creativity and capacity for innovation, including entrepreneurial spirit, at all levels of education and training, strategic objective 4

Annual Growth Survey 2012 Analysis of the higher education system in Romania-

systemic, institutional and quality assurance perspective

Entrepreneurship in Higher Education, Especially Within Non-Business Studies. Final Report of the Expert Group report

questionnaire-based survey 168 students from the Faculties of Educational

Sciences specialization "Pedagogy", BA level, from 3 major Romanian universities: West University of Timisoara, University of Craiova and the University of Bucharest.

purpose - to identify entrepreneurial education needs of students at The Faculty of Educational Sciences, namely:

O.1. Analysis of risk and success factors in the adoption of a module of entrepreneurship education.

O.2. Identifying the variables that contribute to changing the attitudes and behavior towards starting a business

Research

Entrepreneurial intentions (1)

34.5% want to open a business after 4 years

4.8% want to open a business after 6 months

most students think of a business in the field of education, however, trade and services do represent other alternatives.

Reasons to be or not to be entrepreneurYES NO- Money, profit, financial independence

- Contribution in the community, useful, helping people, social purpose, implement my own ideas

- Personal and professional development

- Responsibility

- Lacking the necessary skills

- Difficult, time-consuming

Entrepreneurial intentions (2)

In order to start a business, students lack the most:

money - 44.6% entrepreneurship competences - 38.7% business ideas - 22% knowledge in accounting - 16.7% confidence - 16.1% innovative spirit - 14,9% risk appetite - 9.5% associate - 9.5% the perspective itself - 2.4%

Interest to study entrepreneurship

more than 50% of respondents claiming they read entrepreneurship less than once a week

during an entrepreneurship education course are preferred:

team activities in order to develop certain skills workshops with entrepreneurs or even to visit their

business demonstrations and debates.

the 4 most important theoretical: management - 22%, initiation and business plan - 26.7%, marketing - 8.33%, the skills of a successful entrepreneur - 9 52%

Usefulness of entrepreneurship education course

52,2% of the respondents consider very

helpful and useful such a course

7,7% of respondents would consider this

course not very useful or useless

The success factors

68.5% of students want to start a business;

More than 95% of students are female;

Role models;

Students see entrepreneurial competence

as something that could be developed.

The risk factors

Approximately 50% of students intend to

open a business after 2- 4 years -> hard

to monitor

Professors’ lack of training in

entrepreneurship or even the lack of

professors able to teach this discipline

Conclusions

developing transversal competences is necessary because:

graduates are working other areas which are not related to this specialization

the graduates in educational sciences has a position of “doing” in the organization, not having subordinates (89.87%)

students don’t know sure what they want teaching a module of entrepreneurship

education with a sample of students in educational sciences could be a good solution for defining and adapting a curricula in entrepreneurship for Romanian students

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

CATALIN MARTINcatalin.martin@irea.uvt.ro

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