INICIATIVA
INICIATIVA – Learning key competences through
entrepreneurship
The two-year project INICIATIVA – “Learning key competences through
entrepreneurship” commenced in September 2008 and is funded by the Lifelong
Learning Programme / Grundtvig partnerships. The project aims at giving
adult learners the opportunity to explore their own competences through
entrepreneurship in order to (re)integrate into the learning process or the
job market.
The coordinator is Isabel Alvarez-Castellanos from Centro de Adultos
“Infante” (Spain, Murcia) and the partner institutions are Prodyktionsskolen
I (Denmark, Hvidovre), Technikzentrum Minden-Lübbecke e. V. / Owl
Maschinenbau e.V. (Germany, Hille) and Ekpaideftiria Kaloskami S.A. (Greece,
Piraeus).
During the first year teachers from the participating institutions shared and compared experience about the innovative pedagogical approach
“Learning by doing” in order to motivate the students to gain activity-based insight of the key competences required in the economic and business
life.
During the second year, learners became “entrepreneurs” ready to set up
their own business and trainers became “facilitators” who
stimulated and supported the learners’ initiatives. The students in
our school have created a mini-company called BIO+LOGIKON that provides fast
food based exclusively on organic materials. Through the entrepreneurial
workshops, that have been created, the students gained autonomy and self
esteem on the main key competences such as programming, organizing,
assessing, analyzing, working cooperatively, risk taking as well as
mathematical competence, digital competence, communication in foreign
language etc.
The project aims to develop a website (https://sites.google.com/site/grundtvig200810) and a CD-ROM with the pedagogical
product that will derive by the implementation of the program.
Teachers and students will also participate in the transnational meetings of
the partnership.