General information
Name of the activity:
Entrepreneur’s Skills Certificate® - Unternehmerführerschein®
Country:
Austria
Homepage of the activity:
http://http://www.unternehmerfuehrerschein.at
Organisation providing the activity:
Austrian Federal Economic Chamber - Wirtschaftskammer Österreich (WKO)
Contact data:
Phone: +43 (0)5 90 900-4086 Fax: +43 (0)5 90 900-261 E-Mail: unternehmerfuehrerschein@wko.at
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+
upper secondary school
Students
14-19
vocational education schools
Students
19+
vocational training
Students
15+
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?
yes
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
 8
To work in a group
 10
To work self reliantly
 9
To lead
 7
To delegate
 7
To analyse
 0
To communicate
 10
To de-brief
 8
To evaluate
 8
To record
 9
To negotiate
 9
To present
 0
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
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
-> Distribution of income
-> Economic growth
-> Globalisation
-> Labour market
-> The social service system
-> The legal system
-> The tax system
-> Environmental sustainability
-> Supply of resources
-> Climate change
-> Recycling
Other skills furthered/supported by the activity:
(please describe the skills)
Finance and investment
market opportunity
negotiating
organizing an enterprise
accounting and calculation
Organisational information
Funding
How is the activity financed?
Source
Sources in detail
Private
Participant fee
Public
National
Public organisations:
Activity is usually integrated into lessons
therefore publicly financed
Other:
When schools lack budgets
they sometimes cooperate with local banks or PTA in order to raise funds for paying extra lessons
Transferability (of the activity)
European level
Duration of the activity
More than one year
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…
learning platform
online testing system
interactive learning material
Scope
Local, Regional, National, European
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?
yes
describtion of the framework and more info?
http://www.bmukk.gv.at/schulen/unterricht/prinz/wirtschaftserziehung.xml
Organisational information
Involvement of private companies
Activities
Participation in the planning of the activity
yes
Mentoring of activity participants
no
Coaching of activity participants
yes
Provision of traineeship for activity
no
Hosting of teachers’ visits
yes
Hosting of students’ visits
yes
Guest lessons
yes
Funding in kind of the activity
yes
Involved persons & Associations
Involved persons & Associations
Level of involvement
Students’ Associations
Regional, National
Teachers’ Unions
None
School Boards
Local, Regional, National
Parents’ Associations
Local, Regional, National, European
Government
Local, Regional, National, European
Foundations
Social Partners
(trade unions, employers’ and employees’ associations)
Local, Regional, National, European
Non governmental organisations
(put in the organisation’s name)
Regional, National, European
Does the activity involve teachers’ training?
yes
Organisation providing the training:
Austrian Federal Economic Chamber together with teacher training colleges
Duration of the training:
1 to 4 days per module plus coaching
Compulsory or optional
no
Other important details:
With the support of the
Lifelong Learning Programme
of the European Union
510354-LLP-1-2010-1-AT-COMENIUS-CNW