We visited:

 After interesting tourist attractions we went to dinner and closer acquaintance.

Departure date: 13^th May 2018

Language: English

 

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 teacher, trainers, headmaster and other education staff to teach entrepreneurship and leadership while sharing best practices and experience with fellow participants and trainers throughout all Europe gaining as well as broader understanding of education in Europe.

Thanks of this course the participants will:

 

On course was 14 participants from different European countries (Malta, Poland, Belgium, Ukraine, Latvia, Sweden, Estonia).

The second day of course began with a better introduction. Our first activity was to write three facts about our self but one should be false. Other participants have to figure out what fact is false.

After that, course leader Francesco Tarantino presented us plan and program of course, methods and rules. We talked about our expectations of course. 

The next theme was competence. Competences are combination of knowledge, skills and attitude. We had several very interesting competency-related activities. Key-competences are those which all individuals need for personal fulfill.

Eight key-competences for lifelong learning are:

Next theme was Neuro linguistic programming basics.  We completed Learning/Communication Styles Self-Assessment questionnaire. The VAK learning styles model suggest that most people can be divided into one of the three preferred styles of learning: visual, auditory and kinesthetic. Some people find that their learning style may be a blend of the two or three styles. When you know your preferred learning style(s) you understand the type of learning that best suits you. There is no right or wrong learning style.

The last theme of the second day was Leadership. We discussed what qualities the leader should have, how he/she should behave, what is leadership.  At the end of the lecture we looked at the video: 

Our first theme was Vision. We had to draw our current reality and our desired new reality. Vision therefore does more than provide a picture of a desire future; it encourages people to work, to strive for its attainment. Vision is a compelling picture of the future that inspires commitment. 

“Right vision" has five characters:

Second theme was Leadership styles.

Lewin's leadership styles are: authoritarian, participative and Laissez-fari leadership.       Gleman's leadership styles are: visionary,  coaching, affiliative, democratic, coercive and pacesetting. Coercive and pacesetting styles are not so positive. Other four styles promote harmony and positive outcomes.

We did many excellent activities: Number race, The geese, Self-evaluation on behaviours in a team work, The human knot, Puzzle, Tower, The helium stick, Crossing the river…. All of the activities show us how team must work.

We discussed about groups. Group characters are: group has 2 or more people, they have common goals, independence, self definition, face to face interaction…

Elements that are fundamental for the existence and usability of a team:

The 8 C's for the team building (turning a group into a team):

After that we discussed about what is entrepreneur. The entrepreneur is an individual who takes initiative to bundle resources in innovative ways and is willing to bear the risk and/or uncertainty to act. Being entrepreneur today include: involves creation process, requires devotion of time and effort, involves rewards of being a entrepreneur and requires assumption of necessary risk. Successful entrepreneurs are independent individuals, intensely committed, who work very hard. They are confident optimistic who strive for integrity. They burn with the competitive desire to excel and use failure as a learning tool. Phases of the entrepreneurial process are: identify and evaluate the opportunity, develop business plan, find required resources and manage the enterprise.

 Entrepreneurship and innovations are keys to economic development. There are three types of innovations:

Entrepreneurs in particular situation may think differently when faced with a different task on decision environment. Entrepreneurial mind-set involves the ability to rapidly sense, act and mobilize, even under uncertain conditions. Entrepreneur must leans from business failure. Loss of business can result in a negative emotional response from the entrepreneur. It can interfere with entrepreneur's ability to learn from the failure or motivation to try again. We discussed about four successful entrepreneurs: Jack Ma, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

In the afternoon we was in Florence. 

We went to Opificio Golineli to see how they work, what are they goals, how they started….

In the afternoon we learned about Kolb's experiential learning cycle which has four parts: Concrete experience (doing/having an experience), Reflective observation (reviewing/reflecting on the experience), Abstract conceptualization (concluding/learning from the experience) and Active experimentation (planning/trying out what have you learn). Educators and teachers can take the students through the learning cycle. Guided reflection is known as “processing". Processing in conducted through questions. 

We learned activities that we can use with our students:

We learned about The business model Canvas. It is one of the ways of creating business model. The business model Canvas is a schematic model (simplified version) illustrating synthetic and systematically what are the essential elements on which it is based. It has 4 macroareas and  components. Macroareas are Value proposition (answers the question WHAT), Infrastructure (answers the question HOW), Customers (answers the question WHO), Finance (answers the question HOW MUCH). 

Plan for business model Canvas:

Some examples of plan for business model Canvas: Gillets, Kelly's Lemonade Stand, Airbnb… 

We had to make plan for business model Canvas for any company. We choose Flying Tiger.

In the evening we had our goodbye dinner.