General information
Name of the activity:
JUNIOR Company Programm "Schüler/innen gründen Unternehmen"
Country:
Austria
Homepage of the activity:
http://www.junior.cc
Organisation providing the activity:
JUNIOR Enterprise Austria
Contact data:
info@junior.cc, Rudolfsplatz 10 1010 Wien, Tel.: 0676/ 84 17 17 41 Fax: 01/236 92 74
History of the activity:
Since when is the activity implemented?
More than 10 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
upper secondary school
Students
15-19
vocational education schools
Students
15-19
vocational training
Students
16-19
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?
Are there options for teachers in your region/nation to be educated in entrepreneurship education as part of their life long learning process?
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
 8
Ability to turn ideas into actions
 10
Ability to plan and manage in general to achieve goals
 9
To identify and seize opportunities
 9
To plan and organise activities
 9
To take responsibility for an activity
 9
To dedicate oneself to an activity
 9
To make an effort for achieving goals in an activity
 9
To work in a group
 8
To work self reliantly
 8
To lead
 9
To delegate
 9
To analyse
 8
To communicate
 8
To de-brief
 7
To evaluate
 7
To record
 7
To negotiate
 8
To present
 9
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
. -> Business plan
-> Marketing knowledge
-> Market research (including competitor analysis)
-> Sales & costumer relations
-> Human resource management & Leadership
-> Activity management
-> Purchasing and production chain
-> Production planning
-> 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
Please indicate whether the following skills are related to the activity by clicking the respective box.
Contents
.-> Market economy and competition
-> Supply and demand
-> Money
-> The social service system
-> The tax system
Other skills furthered/supported by the activity:
(please describe the skills)
ad "the social service system"
"the tax system": very stylized introduction into the Austrian system of taxation
in particular income taxes
and the Austrian social service system.
Organisational information
Funding
How is the activity financed?
Source
Sources in detail
Private
Participant fee
Public
Regional
Public organisations:
Austrian Federal Ministry of Economics
Family Affairs and Youth
Austrian Economic Chambers
Austrian Federal Ministry for Education
Arts and Culture
Federation of Austrian Industries
Other:
Junge Wirtschaft
Junge Industrie
accenture
format
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)
yes
which type of ICT tools did you use? Please describe them briefly…
- lotus notes database
- lotus notes database used for used for the management of the JUNIOR companies by the organisation.
Does the web support the activity participants in their work?
yes
how does ICT support the activity activities? Please describe them briefly…
The JUNIOR companies themselves fill in their company data and they do their financial calculations with the support of the database. The participants can find the database on the organisation's homepage.
Scope
National
Creation of a company
Yes
Educational framework
Has the activity become part of the curriculum?
no
If the activity is part of the curriculum, is participation for students optional?
Is the proposed activity part of an educational framework?
yes
describtion of the framework and more info?
Some schools provide the JUNIOR company programme as part of a specialisation in business management and economics within secondary academic schools
Organisational information
Involvement of private companies
Activities
Participation in the planning of the activity
yes
Mentoring of activity participants
yes
Coaching of activity participants
yes
Provision of traineeship for activity
no
Hosting of teachers’ visits
no
Hosting of students’ visits
no
Guest lessons
no
Funding in kind of the activity
yes
Involved persons & Associations
Involved persons & Associations
Level of involvement
Students’ Associations
Regional
Teachers’ Unions
School Boards
Local
Parents’ Associations
Local
Government
National
Foundations
National
Social Partners
(trade unions, employers’ and employees’ associations)
National
Non governmental organisations
(put in the organisation’s name)
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