Undertake

Entrepreneurship as a condition for  entrepreneurship means rolling up your sleeves. Dreaming of our own project, a project that makes us enthusiastic and for which we want to make an effort. Being able to set things up, doing what has to be done to get the project off the ground with the necessary energy. Regardless of the sector in which one wants to be active: art, social sector, social or humanitarian affairs, sport or economy … It is the person who is central to the business and it is he or she with his or her talents, assets, strengths and weaknesses points that will fill the aspects of the enterprise.

A matter of attitude

Entrepreneurship as a condition for  for this, one can rely on his/her entrepreneurial attitude . What is that? What behavioral characteristics does every entrepreneur have? Undoubtedly independence, creativity, curiosity, a sense of initiative, a certain willingness to take risks… and also team spirit and the will to commit. That is the basis of the entrepreneurial spirit that we can describe as the capacity to move from an idea to a concrete project. It is therefore essential to know oneself, to be able to take a step back and to evaluate one’s own functioning, limits and strengths. In all honesty.

Entrepreneurial spirit: what does it mean?

Entrepreneurship is a broad concept and can be understood in both the strict and the broad sense.

In its strict sense, entrepreneurship is the act of creating wealth and/or employment by establishing or taking over a business . The educational goal of the training for entrepreneurship in the strict sense is to understand entrepreneurship and/or become an entrepreneur. It is a training for entrepreneurship and/or entrepreneurs.

In the broad sense of the word, entrepreneurship is the capacity to concretely implement an idea, to start a project. This can lead – among other things – to the creation of a company, but also to intrapreneurship (the collective and organizational capacity to encourage and guide initiative-taking at every level of a company) and greater employability (the capacity to to evolve independently in the labor market in order to realize the inner potential in a sustainable way through employment). The educational aim of training for entrepreneurship in the broad sense is to make young people more entrepreneurial. It is an education through entrepreneurship.

Enthusing young people about entrepreneurship fits within a logic that focuses on dialogue, sharing experiences, exchange of ideas, recognition of everyone’s contribution to each step of the achievement.

Entrepreneurial Pedagogy

Entrepreneurship as a condition for  from this point of view, it is interesting to provide teachers with entrepreneurial pedagogy lessons to support their capacity to focus efforts around a collective project, and to provide them with the tools to concretely apply that approach in their classrooms through their lessons.

Entrepreneurial pedagogy is the capacity to design and apply learning resources to promote:

• a sense of responsibility by encouraging the learner to take charge of a learning path by offering participatory learning (where every young person is at the center of the learning process);
• experience by offering the learner the opportunity to build the learning process on the basis of their own experiences and not those of others;
• the discovery and valorization of each student’s talents (including education);
• collaboration through group work where each individual student contributes to the learning process of the others;
• self-knowledge and understanding of others, to define own motivations, to understand those of others and to recognize complementarity and collective intelligence;
• reflection by giving the student the opportunity to draw up a balance sheet and to make an overview of the acquired knowledge.

The training for entrepreneurial pedagogy is based on 3 or even 4 axes:

• theory: training on the purpose of this pedagogy, on the underlying concepts and foundations (concepts such as mistakes, talents, intrinsic motivation, creativity, benevolence, types of intelligence, stress…);
• experience: imparting entrepreneurial experiences (learning by doing) through immersion in the activities offered to the students;
• tools: provide the pedagogical tools for them and for the students, to define the major elements and steps of entrepreneurial projects;
• guidance: guidance of the teachers in the implementation of the steps for entrepreneurship for the students in their class;

The training will enable teachers – in function of their wishes and possibilities – to create steps or even tools in the field of entrepreneurship for their students, to do more together …