Course overview

Entrepreneurship is a dynamic process of vision and change towards the creation of 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 the course and apply in the classroom.


​Learning outcomes

This course aims to equip participants with the needed skills to deliver an entrepreneurship and/or leadership course in a 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.
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Thanks to this course the participants will:
  • Get acquainted with the key elements and growing trends related to teaching entrepreneurship and leadership;
  • Learn concrete learning activities and didactic games to support students in developing 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 education field in Europe through everyday cooperation and networking activities.
 

Courses planned

2024
25/02/2024 - 02/03/2024 (Palermo)
21/07/2024 - 27/07/2024 (Bologna)
28/07/2024 - 03/08/2024 (Tenerife)

2025
09/03/2025 - 15/03/2025 (Bologna)
09/03/2025 - 15/03/2025 (Palermo)
09/03/2025 - 15/03/2025 (Tenerife)

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. Please mind that the course may include teachers from different school levels.

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 [email protected] to get more information about it.

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“«Take your life in four hands and go for it». Following this course let me form as a person and as a teacher by learning with and from others."

- Sabine Florizoone, Belgium

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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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"This course is very well organized and focused to improve your entrepreneur skills. The way in which the trainer lead it was incredible and very enjoyable for us, creating an amazing atmosphere of learning. Thank you."

- Daniel Jimenez , Spain ​

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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."
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- 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
 - Orientation and information about the venue and the city 
 - Networking activities
 - Walking tour in the venue’s city
Monday
- Course introduction
- Teambuilding exercises
- Needs and expectations evaluation
-  Course introduction: how can we define entrepreneurship?
-  The entrepreneurial mindset
-  Entrepreneurship competences and the European framework
-  Lunch break
Tuesday
- The entrepreneurship toolbox
-  Learn to speak “entrepreneurship slang”
-  Introducing SMART goals
-  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 the venue’s city
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Wednesday
-  Entrepreneur skills: Creativity and Public speaking
- Overview on creativity and critical thinking: key concepts and principles
- Speaking to an audience: How to deliver an effective pitch
-  Practical activities and games to foster creativity
- Optional cultural visit outside the venue’s city 
Thursday
- Entrepreneur skills: Leadership and teamwork
- What does it mean to be a leader
- Leadership styles
- The importance of teamwork: effective dynamics and roles
- Practical group work, role plays and simulations
Friday
- Entrepreneur skills: Assertiveness and problem solving
- Assertiveness as a key to effective communication
- Developing a solution oriented mindset
- Role play on communication styles
- Practical group work: drafting an entrepreneurship workshop
- Farewell dinner
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)
- 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 the best comfort and quality at a price that is within the Erasmus+ grant.
We are proud to tailor our training courses to both participants' learning and practical needs and to ease your participation at our training courses, we will gladly take care of all the practical arrangements. If you prefer, you can take care of some of the practical arrangements by yourself (e.g. meals, local transport...), though we will manage the organization of your accommodation in order to ensure optimal logistic organization, safety and time-efficiency. We always provide board and lodging in the same hotel in which we organize the course  thus ensuring optimal comfort and potential of networking with the fellow participants. Read more about  how we take care of your subsistence and practical arrangements. 
The most common option that we offer to schools and organisations in 2025 costs 1405 EUR in Bologna, 1330 EUR in Tenerife and Thessaloniki and 1225 EUR in Palermo, Porto and Rimini and includes course fee, certification and support fee, accommodation in single room, 2 coffee breaks per day, walking tour in the venue’s city, a sum-up dissemination video. The standard option in Bologna, Tenerife and Thessaloniki includes all meals from Sunday lunch to Saturday lunch, while in Palermo, Porto and Rimini includes all breakfasts and three networking meals in local restaurants. Few of our courses include extra services and activities hence having a different pricing option, which will be communicated upon receiving the pre-registration.​
For schools sending 2 or more participants we can offer accommodation in double rooms and we can provide as well accommodation for people or relatives accompanying the participants.
When attending our courses, we recommend you to request 9 days of individual support for your subsistence costs, 7 days for the course plus 2 additional days for the travel. In this way you can have more flexibility in planning your stay and you can enjoy all the cultural activities planned from the first to the last day of course. You can read here more about the Erasmus+ funding. Shall you have need any help with filling the budget during the application stage or have any problem with your grant please let us know and we will see how to support you.
At the end of the course, each participant will be awarded a certificate of attendance, together - if requested - with the Europass Mobility Certificate. The certificate are in line with the Erasmus Quality Standards and include a short description of the course and its learning outcomes, dates, venues, the name of the course provider and the course instructor(s).
We support the participants in every step of certification and 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.

Videos and photos of previous training courses

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