Passion in entrepreneurship education!

YES: network for entrepreneurship education9 June 2015

@yesverkostoyes-keskus.fi

Contents:

• What is entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education?• Introduction to YES activities• YES services for teachers

What is entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurship is attitude and practices. It is:

• the ability to turn ideas into practices,

• creativity, community, responsibility, and risk

taking

• ability to plan actions to reach set goals.

What is entrepreneurship education?

Entrepreneurship education teaches the skills

and competences necessary for life.

It is not about individual acts, but comprehensive

practices.

Entrepreneurship education:• Improves sense of self-worth

• Motivates and encourages to take on new

challenges

• Improves work skills and knowledge

• Improves financial literacy

• Improves everyday skills

• Encourages to aim for the future

• Encourages to become an entrepreneur

Our vision:

YES builds a future, where each youth can receive entrepreneurship education.

YES primary mission

YES in a specialist network for entrepreneurship

education. We promote the establishment of

entrepreneurship education by:• Training teaching staff

• Developing training and entrepreneurial education

• Promoting cooperation between schools and businesses

• Providing educational materials

YES – our results:

• Entrepreneurial work culture grows stronger

• Pedagogy of entrepreneurship education develops

• The entrepreneurial and working skills of teaching

staff improve

• Cooperation between schools and businesses

increases

• New learning environments for entrepreneurship

education are created

Societal demand for YES

Guidelines for entrepreneurship education 2015 (MinEd 2009:9):

• Networking between different parties involved in entrepreneurship education has intensified at the

international, national, regional and local levels.

• Measures to develop entrepreneurship education primarily originate in the regional and local levels.

• The regional resource centres have established their position and cover the whole country. • Entrepreneurship education has entrenched itself as a solid part of the evolving core curricula and as a

stronger component of school-specific curricula.

• Entrepreneurship education has been integrated more robustly into local school and business strategies

and development plans.

http://www.minedu.fi/export/sites/default/OPM/Julkaisut/2009/liitteet/opm09.pdf?lang=fi

International demand for YES

Entrepreneurship 2020 action plan COM (2012) 795

Investing in entrepreneurship education is one of the highest return investments Europe can make.

The Member States are invited to offer the opportunity to young people to have at least one practical entrepreneurial experience before leaving compulsory education, such as running a mini-company, being responsible for an entrepreneurial project for a company or a social project.

YES activities pursue the Programme of Sipilä’s Government 2015–2019

”Finland must become a society founded on know-how, entrepreneurship, equality and caring.”

Government-term objectives: ”Dialogue between educational institutions and working life is more active.”

”The Government will promote a change in the role of the municipality of the future, from an arranger of services to increasingly a promoter of vitality, entrepreneurship and employment in its area.”

Programme of Sipilä's Government (p. 6, 16, 30)

(continued)“The learning methods and environments in basic education will be updated to meet the challenges posed by the latest developments. The future knowledge base will be emphasised.”

“New pedagogical approaches will be introduced. Development programmes for teacher training and continuing professional education will be launched.”

“The status of vocational education in society will be improved. A regionally comprehensive education network will be preserved and interaction will be enhanced between educational institutions and working life.”

Programme of Sipilä's Government (Knowledge and Education, p. 6, 16–17, 30)

YES Network

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Operates in 17 regionsNorthern Ostrobothnia (Oulu)Central Ostrobothnia (Kokkola)Ostrobothnia (Vaasa)Southern Ostrobothnia (Seinäjoki)Satakunta (Pori)Finland Proper (Turku)Pirkanmaa (Tampere)Central Finland (Jyväskylä)Northern Savonia (Kuopio, Iisalmi)Southern Savonia (Mikkeli)Kouvola Kotka-Hamina (Kotka)Päijät-Häme (Lahti) Uusimaa (Järvenpää, Porvoo)Länsi-Uusimaa (Lohja)Metropolitan Area (Helsinki)North Karelia (Joensuu)

YES regional office:

• is entrepreneurship education resource for

teahing staff, providing YES services to

teaching staff and businesses

• is regional entrepreneurship education

coordinator and developer

YES regional office:

• Operates through networks with other regional

agents (the YES team) to develop and support

entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education

• Forms the national YES Network with other YES

regional offices

YES regional office:

• Is set up with the local needs in mind

• Is supported by schools, joint municipal authorities,

regional development organizations, business

associations, municipalities, entrepreneur associations

• Is funded by supporting partners and through project

grants

YES services

• YES training

• School-business cooperation

• Developing entrepreneurship education

• JA regional services

National YES + 17 YES regional offices

YES ServicesYES Trainings

Developing entrepreneurship education and strategies

School-Business cooperation

JA Regional services

• YES Info events

• YES Training

according to the

collective bargaining

contracts (VESO days)

• YES Teacher training

• YES Training for head

teachers

• JA Program training

YES training

• YES Info events

• YES Training according to the collective

bargaining contracts (VESO days)

• YES Teacher training

• YES Training for head teachers

• Coming up: YES Work Life Mentor training

School-business cooperation

• YES Work Life Mentor

• YES Teacher-Entrepreneur Meet-Ups

• YES Café

• YES Mentor

School-business cooperation

www.yeskummit.fi

• Service where teachers and entrepreneurs meet to establish school-business cooperation

• Teachers can find suitable YES Work Life Mentors through the service

School-business cooperation

YES Teacher-Entrepreneur Meet-Ups

• A good way to start working together

• New contact, innovative business ideas, work methods

• Contents:- Group introduction- case studies, business reports- Date for a Minute- Seminars and group work- Cooperation plan

School-Business Cooperation

YES Café

• Teaching staff meetings on business premises

• Contents:- The business’ story- Conversation- Views on work and training- Cooperation plan

School-Business Cooperation

YES Mentor

• Peer mentoring model for teacher-entrepreneurs cooperation

• Tools, contacts, and business knowledge for teachers

• Knowledge of and a chance to have a say in training for

entrepreneurs

• Contents:- meetings and conversation- networking- cooperative projects

School-Business Cooperation

Developing entrepreneurship education/network services

• YES Teams

• YES Regional Teams

• Strategy work

• Curriculum planning

JA regional services

• JA program training (YES training)

• Organizing JA regional expos

• Regional support for JA programs

Members 2015:

Financers 2015:

JA-YE Finland (founded June 1, 2010)

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