General information
Name of the activity:
Mini enterprises
Country:
Netherlands
Homepage of the activity:
http://
Organisation providing the activity:
Koning Willem I College
Contact data:
ja.jansen@kw1c.nl
History of the activity:
Since when is the activity implemented?
1 – 5 years
Main Target Group
What target group is directly addressed by the activity?
Students
Target groups:
Education levels
Headmasters / Teachers / Students
Age of students
pre-school
primary school
lower secondary school
Students
14-15
upper secondary school
vocational education schools
Students
17-18
vocational training
Is the activity focusing on special target groups?
no
Additional information about entrepreneurship education for teachers:
If teachers are part of your activity’s target group, is entrepreneurship education part of their national and/or regional academic curriculum?
no
Are there options for teachers in your region/nation to be educated in entrepreneurship education as part of their life long learning process?
no
Abilities & Skills of entrepreneurship
On a scale of 1 - 10 (1 being the basic level of competence acquisition and 10 the highest level).
Abilities & Skills
Ability to create new ideas
 10
Ability to turn ideas into actions
 10
Ability to plan and manage in general to achieve goals
 10
To identify and seize opportunities
 10
To plan and organise activities
 10
To take responsibility for an activity
 10
To dedicate oneself to an activity
 10
To make an effort for achieving goals in an activity
 10
To work in a group
 10
To work self reliantly
 10
To lead
 6
To delegate
 10
To analyse
 10
To communicate
 10
To de-brief
 10
To evaluate
 10
To record
 10
To negotiate
 10
To present
 10
To sell
 10
Knowledge of business management and entrepreneurship
Please indicate whether the following skills are related to the activity by clicking the respective box.
Contents
. -> Innovation methods and instruments to generate new product/services
-> Business plan
-> Marketing knowledge
-> Market research (including competitor analysis)
-> Sales & costumer relations
-> Human resource management & Leadership
-> Activity management
-> Purchasing and production chain
-> Production planning
-> Accounting, book – keeping
-> Cost accounting
-> Controlling and monitoring
-> Financial and liquidity calculation
-> Business ethics
-> How to start up one’s own company
General knowledge of the working of the economy
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Contents
.-> Market economy and competition
-> Supply and demand
-> Money
-> Distribution of income
-> Economic growth
-> Environmental sustainability
-> Supply of resources
Organisational information
Funding
How is the activity financed?
Source
Sources in detail
Private
Public
Local
Public organisations:
Transferability (of the activity)
European level
Duration of the activity
6 to 12 months
Use of new technologies (ICT) in activity work
Which role does advanced information and communication technology such as homepages, web based databases, online coaching play in your activity?
Did you use any type of software/ application during the described activity?
(such as market simulation games)
no
Does the web support the activity participants in their work?
yes
how does ICT support the activity activities? Please describe them briefly…
some of them make homepages by themselves about their mini-enterprises
Scope
Regional
Creation of a company
Yes
Educational framework
Has the activity become part of the curriculum?
yes
more info; when it became part of the curriculum, at which level, etc
It's on schoolschedule for one or two hours/week for 1 year
If the activity is part of the curriculum, is participation for students optional?
no
Is the proposed activity part of an educational framework?
yes
describtion of the framework and more info?
Career guidance in a cooperation traject between pupils from lower secondary school and student from vocational college
Organisational information
Involvement of private companies
Activities
Participation in the planning of the activity
no
Mentoring of activity participants
no
Coaching of activity participants
yes
Provision of traineeship for activity
yes
Hosting of teachers’ visits
no
Hosting of students’ visits
yes
Guest lessons
yes
Funding in kind of the activity
Involved persons & Associations
Involved persons & Associations
Level of involvement
Students’ Associations
Teachers’ Unions
School Boards
Regional
Parents’ Associations
Government
Foundations
Social Partners
(trade unions, employers’ and employees’ associations)
Regional
Non governmental organisations
(put in the organisation’s name)
Regional
Does the activity involve teachers’ training?
no
With the support of the
Lifelong Learning Programme
of the European Union
510354-LLP-1-2010-1-AT-COMENIUS-CNW