Course overview

Entrepreneurship is a dynamic process of vision, change, and creation  towards the creation new ideas and creative solutions. Nowadays it’s crucial to support learners  to develop an entrepreneurial mindset as well as leadership skills and education can play a major role in this task. That explains the growing trend of teaching entrepreneurship, creative thinking and leadership at school. Taking part in this course the participants will understand the key elements and principles related to entrepreneurship and leadership education and will acquire concrete working methods, learning activities and didactic games that they will be able to integrate in their course and apply in the classroom.

Main objectives

​This course aims to equip participants with the needed skills to deliver an entrepreneurship and/or leadership course in an high, vocational or adult school or to integrate some learning activities and approaches fostering entrepreneurial mindsets and assertiveness in their current courses.
The general aim of this course is to foster excellence in education by empowering teachers, trainers, headmasters and other education staff to teach entrepreneurship and leadership while sharing best practices and experiences with fellow participants and trainers throughout all Europe gaining as well  a broader understanding of education in Europe.
Thanks to this course the participants will:
  • Get acquainted with the key elements and growing trends related to entrepreneurship and leadership education;
  • Learn how to use concrete learning activities and didactic games to support students to develop entrepreneurial mindsets and assertive attitudes;
  • Learn how to engage students and motivate them to develop their entrepreneurship and problem solving skills as well as their self-esteem;
  • Learn how to lead and deliver experiential workshops, simulation activities and interactive projects to foster students entrepreneurial mindsets and leadership characters;
  • Get to know case studies that could be used and integrated in a real course;
  • Exchange good practices and discuss challenges with fellow colleagues and the course trainers;
  • Make contacts with individuals and organizations working in the field of education in Europe through everyday cooperation and networking activities;
  • Visit and network with Italian institutions.

Sessions planned

Bologna
21/07/2019 - 27/07/2019
03/11/2019 - 09/11/2019
26/01/2020 - 01/02/2020
19/07/2020 - 25/07/2020
22/11/2020 - 28/11/2020
 
If none of these dates suits you please mind that if there are at least 8 participants interested we may organize an additional session ad-hoc for your school.

Target audience

This course is addressed to teachers, trainers, educational counsellors, career counsellors, school psychologists, headmasters, school management and administrative staff working in primary schools, secondary schools, vocational schools, training centres, adult education schools, higher education and NGOs.

Language

The course is held in English. For groups with at least 8 participants, we can organize an ad-hoc session in a different language. 
Please write an email to staff@ifom.info to get more information about it.

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"The course is very interesting, the training schedule is flexible. I got a lot of ideas for activities that I can use in classroom. The working atmosphere is great. I liked interesting cultural activities. Thanks for everything."

- Doris Crnjac, Croatia

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"With these ambitious young trainers I had such a nice training. I feel well informed and I believe in myself that I can be a good leader."

- Eda Tavsanoglu, Turkey

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"Very good management and arrangement at every stage. Friendly atmosphere and flexibility to meet participants' expectations. Ability to create a wonderful group atmosphere."

- Alina Pietrzykowska, Poland

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"I recommend this course because it brought together and gave a framework to concepts and teachers that we know intuitively but never stop to think about closely. Highly structured and organised with many activities.

- Diane Micallef, Malta

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"Join in, open up, enjoy and leave full of new inspirations. IFOM does a really good job."

- Bartosz Fabjański, Poland

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Standard daily programme

Please find below the standard indicative daily programme that will be personalized on participants needs and professional profiles.
Our standard program comprises 7 days of course, of which the first one is dedicated to networking, preparation and cultural immersion and the last one to follow up, specific needs and cultural activities. Please note that we always do our best to accommodate the specific needs of our participants in a flexible way, including but not limited to budget restrictions and travel arrangement. Participants can choose to arrive 1 day before the start of the course and/or leave one day after the end of it in order to enjoy a deeper cultural immersion. Upon specific request we can organize longer or shorter versions of this course.
Sunday
 -  Participants arrival
 -  Individual orientation and information about the venue and the city 
 -  Networking activities
 -  Guided visit in Bologna (optional)
 -  Welcome dinner
Monday
 -  Course introduction: entrepreneurship and leadership in today’s world
 -  Competences ex-ante evaluation
 -  Neuro-linguistic programming basic concepts
 -  What does it mean to be a leader?
 -  Practical group work and simulation activities: leadership styles and team roles
Tuesday
 -  Learn to speak “entrepreneurship slang”: start-up, incubators, fab labs, business model
 -  A powerful tool: the business model CANVAS
 -  Practical group work and simulation activities: developing a business model
 -  Sharing best practices and entrepreneurial experiences
 -  Cultural activities in Bologna and traditional Italian aperitif
Wednesday
 -  Magnifying your learners assertiveness and self-esteem
 - Pedagogies for teaching Entrepreneurship in classroom
 -  Practical group work and simulation activities: experiential exercises and simulation activities to foster leadership
 -  Guided visit in Florence (optional)
Thursday
 -  Fostering your students inner entrepreneurs: examples of interactive projects  and didactic games
 -  Practical group work and simulation activities: the 10€ interactive project
 -  Practical group work and simulation activities: the B2B speed-marketing activity
 -  Practical group work and simulation activities: the world café method
Friday
 -  Success story presentations: entrepreneurial leaders
 -  Exchange of best practices with fellow teachers and trainers
 -  Practical group work: drafting an entrepreneurship and/or  leadership workshop
 -  Dinner in traditional Italian restaurant
Saturday
 -  Space for discussion of future cooperation and planning follow up activities
 -  Course roundup and final evaluation
 -  Validation of learning outcomes and certification ceremony
 -  Additional training session tailored to specific needs (optional)
 -  Cultural activities or additional guided visit in another major Italian city (optional)
 -  Participants departure
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Other relevant facts

  • Methodology
  • Costs and Erasmus+ Funding
  • Certification and Validation of learning outcomes
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We tailor the working methods based upon participants’ needs, attitudes and professional profiles in order to ensure high productivity, effectiveness and transferability into practice.
The standard methodology is highly practical and participative with hands-on approach that comprises real-job examples, case studies examination and simulations. We embrace collaboratively working methods that foster mutual learning and cooperation among participants. Our focus is on learning in an interactive and international environment knowledge applicable to the real contexts and/or in the classroom. The pedagogical methods that we use are based upon experiential training, group and peer activities, learning-by-doing and best practices’ exchange. They include visits with local schools and institutions allowing the participants to better understand the local education system as well as exchange ideas and contacts.
Morning Wrap-up and brief daily evaluations are foreseen to ensure quality of education and to adapt the learning programme to participants' needs better tailoring the education.
We organize optional social, networking and cultural activities in order to give participants the opportunity to know Italy as well as to exchange best-practice and establish professional cooperation and links.
The training and staff team is multinational thus giving a full European dimension to the course.
​Teachers, trainers, headmasters and any other staff of education organizations are eligible to receive an Erasmus+ grant covering all the costs to attend our training courses including travel, board and lodging, cultural activities and all fees. Our training courses are tailored to be fully funded by Erasmus+ and we offer different options to ensure that the Erasmus+ grant will be sufficient. Read more about Erasmus+ funding, shall you have any problem with your grant please let us know and we will see how to accommodate your needs.
 The most common option that we offer costs EUR 1220 and includes course fee, certification and support fee, accommodation in single room, all coffee breaks, 3 meals per day, walking tour in the venue’s city and local transport during the training course. Based on your preferences and budget you can request different services, a less inclusive/cheaper package or you can choose to organize the board and lodging by yourself and opt to just attend the training course. Read more about how we take care of your subsistence.
At the end of the course, each participant will be awarded a certificate of attendance including a description of training content and as well as its starting and end date, together - if requested -  with the Europass Mobility Certificate.
We support the participants in every step of certification an d validation of learning outcomes with specific focus on European instruments and Erasmus plus requirements such as staff mobility/learning agreement, quality commitment and Europass mobility certificate.
We experienced that schools and education organizations may require additional documents to certify the competences learned or the presence in the training course. Upon request we can provide additional certification and reporting documents as well as we provide photos of the training course and a sum-up video that can be used for visibility and dissemination purposes.

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