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The Entrepreneurs Skills Certificate
Concept and materials May 28, 2009
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EU calls upon all Member States to safeguard the
provision of entrepreneurship education
Action Plan The European agenda for
Entrepreneurship (COM(2004)70final)The
Commission has called upon Member States ? to
integrate entrepreneurship education into all
schools curricula and provide schools with
proper support to allow them to put in place
effective and high quality education schemes ?
to ensure high quality entrepreneurship
education for all pupils throughout the EU
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The Entrepreneurs Skills Certificate ...

• ... is an additional qualification for
  entrepreneurial mindset
• ... leads to the awarding of an international
  certificate
• ... is supported by innovative learning tools
  technologies
• ... meets the aims of the European Commission
  initiative (Entrepreneurship competence)
• was awarded best practice in Oslo 2007 and Good
  Practice Exchange under the European charter for
  small enterprises 2008-2009.

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The benefits
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The ESC teaching and learning products consist
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• e-ESC- the learning programme
• Learning sequences
• Training sequences
• Textbooks for students
• Basic contents and in-depth information
• Exercises / questionaires
• Teacher support materials
• Teacher book with didactic suggestions
• Materials on CD(Exercises, ppt-slides,)

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ESC Learning Sequences

• Multimedia learning and excercise pages

• Text, graphics, sound and audio
• Basic info self-test materialson the main
  level
• Detailed info supplementary material

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For every learning sequence the appropriate
training sequence

• Training sequences in flash-card mode
• Correctly answered questions are put aside as
  finished
• Incorrectly solved exercises are moved to the end
  
• Practice until the exercise stack is mastered
• For comprehensive repetition / test preparation,
  all of the exercises can be repeated

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The ESC Online Testing Solution

• A dedicated testing system has been developed for
  the ESC exam.
• Authorised test centres will be equipped with
  this testing system, which will be used for
  executing the exams.
• Any training institution that fulfills the system
  requirements for the standardised exam, can
  become an authorised test centre.
• Not only the testing system (automatic test
  evaluation), but the quesiton pool as well, is
  uniform objective testing is guaranteed.

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Test System Test Evaluation

• Automatic test evaluation at the end of the test
• Test results for students and examiners

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ESC References

• Austria around 20.000 practicioners so far
• Germany over 15.000 practicioners since 2007
• Luxemburg starting 2009
• Upcoming Switzerland, Ireland, UK, France,
  Poland, Czech Republic, UAE, Russia, Kosovo,
  Rumania

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Thank you for your attention !
Stefan Düss stefan.duess_at_bitonline.cc
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