About the Project

About the project

ENTRE_VET is a vocational education and training (VET) project designed to support VET students and graduates in accessing the labour market as entrepreneurs or self-employed professionals, contributing to the fight against youth unemployment.

The project equips VET students with up-to-date entrepreneurial knowledge and skills, helping them understand their role in the economy and enabling them to create sustainable organisations with solid structures. Developed in line with European Commission priorities and national and local entrepreneurship strategies, ENTRE_VET directly supports the Osnabrück Declaration by promoting VET centres as incubators of entrepreneurship and digital readiness.

Target Group

The DIRECT target groups of the project include:

  • VET trainers who are providing any sort of entrepreneurial education in their VET centres, following the EU recommendations from the Osnabrück declaration.
  • VET students from any VET sector, who are interested in learning about entrepreneurship.

The INDIRECT target group of the project includes:

  •  VET schools that are trying to implement the recommendations of the European Commission on the inclusion of entrepreneurship in VET education.
  • Organisations promoting entrepreneurship among young people.
  • Policy makers, stakeholders, public figures, and local authorities who have something to say when it comes to the inclusion of entrepreneurial education in VET education, at the national and European level.

Objectives

ENTRE_VET aims to foster an entrepreneurial-oriented VET ecosystem, satisfying the following set of project objectives:

  • To analyze the VET student behavior and inclination towards entrepreneurship, comparing their entrepreneurial knowledge before learning about entrepreneurship, and their entrepreneurial intentions after receiving training on the subject. This will be achieved through a dedicated questionnaire on entrepreneurial behavior and mindset. A two-year study will be conducted among VET students benefiting from the ENTRE_VET project.

  • To assist VET schools in the implementation of the Osnabrück Declaration on Vocational Education and Training, by providing a path that helps them turn the theory behind the Declaration into applicable actions to be included in the VET courses. This will be achieved by the developed ENTRE_VET curriculum, assisting VET students to delve into learning about entrepreneurship and fostering their entrepreneurial behavior and mindset.

  • To provide VET students with understandable, easy to follow and useful information about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial mindset. This will be achieved through workshops, where students will be in direct contact with local entrepreneurs and the developed curriculum.

  • To adapt VET education to the needs of the labor market and the economy, providing students with tools that will enable them to transition from VET education to their professional path.

  • To collaborate and support the European Skills Agenda for sustainable competitiveness, social fairness, and resilience.

  • To strengthen the collaboration between VET centers and entrepreneurs, establishing a path where students can contact entrepreneurs and learn from other people’s experience.

  • To provide a tool to bring entrepreneurship closer to VET students at risk of social exclusion, through the freely accessible developed content outputs of the project, with the workshops providing learning pathways on entrepreneurship for all.

  • To promote digital learning in VET education, facilitating a type of training that complements the already available, formal education of the VET curriculum, through freely accessible online courses within the ENTRE_VET platform.