General information

Name of the activity:	Counseling & Career Guidance of Prisoners
Country:	Greece
Homepage of the activity:	http://repository.edulll.gr/edulll/retrieve/746/132.pdf
Organisation providing the activity:	General Secretariat of Adults' Education
Contact data:	Eleni Rigoutsou

History of the activity:

Since when is the activity implemented?

5 – 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	Students	14-15
upper secondary school	Students	16-18
vocational education schools	Students	18+
vocational training	Students	22+

Is the activity focusing on special target groups?

yes

specify:

(please specity: Prisoners)

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?

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	6
Ability to turn ideas into actions	6
Ability to plan and manage in general to achieve goals	8
To identify and seize opportunities	5
To plan and organise activities	8
To take responsibility for an activity	7
To dedicate oneself to an activity	7
To make an effort for achieving goals in an activity	8
To work in a group	6
To work self reliantly	6
To lead	7
To delegate	6
To analyse	7
To communicate	8
To de-brief	7
To evaluate	6
To record	7
To negotiate	7
To present	8
To sell	6

Other skills furthered/supported by the activity:

- Reconnecting with the learning process
- The acquisition and upgrading of basic skills (ability to produce written and oral language
comprehension
etc.)
- The acquisition of new basic skills (use of computers
production documents
applications development
image processing
etc.)
- The social skills (ability to communicate and resolve problems related to daily life
e.g written application
information retrieval)
- Mobilization and sensitization of prisoners in the creative use of years in prison

Knowledge of business management and entrepreneurship

Please indicate whether the following skills are related to the activity by clicking the respective box.

Contents

.	-> Production planning -> Business ethics -> How to start up one’s own company

Other skills furthered/supported by the activity:
(please describe the skills)

It should be noted that generally the educational level of prisoners is relatively low
consequently training initially covers basic skills (reading and writing
completion of primary and secondary education in Second Chance Schools
basic ICT skills).

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 -> Labour market

Other skills furthered/supported by the activity:
(please describe the skills)

- Training in mainly focused on technical skills and vocational education

Organisational information

Funding

How is the activity financed?

Source	Sources in detail
Private	Participant fee
Public	National
Public organisations:	Genaral Secretarial of Adults' Education

Transferability (of the activity)

National 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)

Does the web support the activity participants in their work?

Scope

National

Creation of a company

Educational framework

Has the activity become part of the curriculum?

yes

more info; when it became part of the curriculum, at which level, etc

This practice is piloted in Prison Education and applies to juveniles and adult delinquents

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?

This practice in deployed with the education framework of incarceration which aims at the resocialization and improvement of the offender

Organisational information

Involvement of private companies

Activities
Participation in the planning of the activity	no
Mentoring of activity participants	no
Coaching of activity participants	no
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

Others:

All activities belonging to the abovementioned initiative are funded by the E.E (within the framework of inclusive education)

Involved persons & Associations

Involved persons & Associations	Level of involvement
Students’ Associations	None
Teachers’ Unions	National
School Boards	National
Parents’ Associations	National
Government	National
Foundations	National
Social Partners (trade unions, employers’ and employees’ associations)	National
Non governmental organisations (put in the organisation’s name)	National
Others	ARSIS (http://arsis.gr/index2.htm) a nongovernmental organization specializing in social support for young people and the protection of juvenile rights and KETHEA (http://www.kethea.gr/el-gr/home.aspx) the largest network of rehabilitation services and social reintegration are actively involved in the training.

Does the activity involve teachers’ training?

yes

Organisation providing the training:	General Secretariat of Adults' Education
Duration of the training:	2-3 weeks
Compulsory or optional	yes
Other important details:

With the support of the
Lifelong Learning Programme
of the European Union
510354-LLP-1-2010-1-AT-COMENIUS-CNW