General information
Name of the activity:
F1 in schools
Country:
Greece
Homepage of the activity:
http://http://www.f1inschoolsgreece.com/
Organisation providing the activity:
F1 in Schools Ltd
Contact data:
Dimitris Polymatidis
History of the activity:
Since when is the activity implemented?
0 – 1 year
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
16+
vocational education schools
Students
16+
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?
yes
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
 9
Ability to turn ideas into actions
 9
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
 9
To work self reliantly
 9
To lead
 9
To delegate
 9
To analyse
 8
To communicate
 9
To de-brief
 0
To evaluate
 8
To record
 8
To negotiate
 8
To present
 9
To sell
 9
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
-> Controlling and monitoring
-> Financial and liquidity calculation
-> Business ethics
Other skills furthered/supported by the activity:
(please describe the skills)
F1 in Schools is a multi-disciplinary challenge in which teams of students aged 9 to 19 deploy CAD/CAM software to collaborate
design
analyse
manufacture
test
and then race miniature gas powered balsa wood F1 cars. The challenge inspires students to use IT to learn about physics
aerodynamics
design
manufacture
branding
graphics
sponsorship
marketing
leadership/teamwork
media skills and financial strategy
and apply them in a practical
imaginative
competitive and exciting way.
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
-> Economic growth
-> Globalisation
-> Labour market
-> Supply of resources
Organisational information
Funding
How is the activity financed?
Source
Sources in detail
Private
Participant fee
Public
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…
Pupils navigated themselves to internet in order to find sponsors and centers where they could manufactute F1 cars
Scope
National
Creation of a company
No
Educational framework
Has the activity become part of the curriculum?
no
If the activity is part of the curriculum, is participation for students optional?
yes
Is the proposed activity part of an educational framework?
no
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
yes
Hosting of teachers’ visits
Hosting of students’ visits
Guest lessons
Funding in kind of the activity
Others:
sponsorship and support of the activity
Involved persons & Associations
Involved persons & Associations
Level of involvement
Students’ Associations
None
Teachers’ Unions
None
School Boards
National
Parents’ Associations
None
Government
None
Foundations
National
Social Partners
(trade unions, employers’ and employees’ associations)
National
Non governmental organisations
(put in the organisation’s name)
None
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