Greece

EA, as any general secondary school in Greece, following the curricula provided by the ministry of education has limited opportunities to provide to its students knowledge and skills for entrepreneurship. It focuses on providing academic knowledge. In the curricula there are subjects such as Career Management education, Introduction to New Technologies, Business Administration and Economics, but these subjects are taught once in different classes and only for a semester. Therefore there is no adequately entrepreneurial education in the official school program.

EA recognizes the importance of self development and therefore provides extra curricula activities where the students learn to develop new ideas and apply their knowledge to practical issues. EA students organize themselves in groups and create projects and activities such as bazaars, theater performances, sport events, music concerts, which allow themselves to identify their strengths and weaknesses, take risks and experience success and failure. These activities prepare them to tackle more complex problems that will face later in their professional lives.

What is missing from these practical application of their skills and knowledge is the theoretical background that will help them to identify where they could improve and allow them to take on more complex projects. This theoretical background is not available to the children due to the tight control of what is taught in schools by the ministry.