Istituto Istruzione Superiore Cesare Pesenti

Country

Italy

Vision or plan for entrepreneurship education

The Enterprise education activity of the school is began in 2006 with the Junior Achievement Italia tool of Impresa in azione. In 2010 the school launched a Permanent Council on Enterprise education to enlarge the number of the schools involved in the program in the county.
During a media conference the school explained to the main stakeholders of the community the project and managed a trade fair with stands of all the student companies started in the period.
The project is managed by a teacher and a lab assistant with the support of a team of external consultants: business volunteers, entrepreneurs, managers.
Till 2009 the school began a strong and continuous relationship with a companies based nearest the school and every year 1 or 2 students involved in the project began to work as internship for this company and 3 of them were employed.
The Impresa in azione project engaged each scholastic year a team of 25 students of the 4° and 5° years that chose volunterly to follow the project during extracurricular time.

Resources to encourage and support entrepreneurship education

All the projects included in the Excellent framework has got an annual budget.

Focus on student centred learning, integration in different subjects

The institute is a vocational school and the learning by doing approach is fundamental in all the didactic activities.
The project is extended to a wide range of technical subjects: electrician, mechanic, tecnical assistence.
The entreprenurial activities are supported by external partners: companies, entrepreneurs confederation, business volunteers.

Evaluation of entrepreneurship education and learning and by whom

The team of adult people - teacher, lab assistant and external partners - evaluate each student and this evaluation is discussed by the Council of the classroom. This evaluation in an important part of the total evaluation of the students.