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Welcome to the search area for tools and methods!

We have collected examples from 90 schools in several European countries. You can search by four different criteria:

  • At which age level you teach
  • The different subjects and activities you are interested in
  • Teaching issues you want to look into
  • How to strenghten different skills and competences among the students

More will come, and you can help by sharing your best practice.

When you have selected a tool or method, there is an option to review the tool. We encourage you to share your opinion or view. This will help us develop the virtual guide, and give important feedback to your colleagues all over Europe.  

 

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Do you want your students to understand financial statements without needing to become an accountant? Dolearnfinance.com is a FREE, innovative, web-based resource providing all the materials and modelling applications needed to learn financial skills and produce financial projections for school projects and live businesses.

HP Life

HP LIFE e-Learning is a free, cloud-based online training program that helps aspiring and current entrepreneurs create or build their own businesses. Part of HP Living Progress –the company’s vision for creating a better future for everyone through its actions and innovations – HP LIFE e-Learning enables people to gain the business and IT skills that help create jobs and stimulate economic growth.   

Deployed on HP Helion, learners have access to 25 modular courses in seven languages, including English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, a wide range of supporting online resources to deepen the learning experience and certification for successfully completed courses.

HP LIFE e-Learning is accessed directly by self-paced learners and is used by educators, trainers and mentors to enrich their curriculum or the services they offer to their students - as homework, as the basis for participatory learning, or for 1:1 mentoring. HP LIFE e-Learning is also used by small business centers as a way to prepare clients for a counseling session or as a follow up assignment to further their understanding. 

 

Exploring Economics uses hands-on activities to explain complex economic concepts such as supply and demand, inflation, and the production, distribution and consumption of goods. It gives insight into the effect governments and individuals have on the global economy— and on the price of a loaf of bread.

Economics reinforces concepts of micro- and macro-economics by having students explore the basic characteristics of an economic system and how economic principles influence business decisions. It also introduces students to consumer issues, such as saving, investing, and taxation.

Titan allows students to operate a virtual company through a Web-based simulation. The students' success depends on decisions about their product's price and their company's marketing, research and development, and business practices. Win or lose, students gain an understanding of how management decisions affect a company's bottom line.

Personal Finance explores the fundamental elements of personal finances: earnings, saving and investing, budgeting, credit, risk management, and giving. Students apply these elements to a personal financial plan that allows them to set specific goals for their lifelong financial needs and desired quality of life.

Entrepreneur Scan (E-Scan) gives an instant online insight into the entrepreneurial skills and aptitude of students.

Based on Dr. Martijn Driessen's scientific research, this entrepreneur test identifies the strongest and weakest enterprising skills of anyone. Each student receive a PDF page with his/her results (the 1 page summary of the test can be added to a business plan for example). The tool is well rated and considered very useful by both students and teachers.

More than 500,000 people took the E-Scan. With the 360 degrees feedback feature, up to 3 people may comment on the E-Scan of an individual student. This gives extensive feedback on how others see students' entrepreneurial profiles and uncovers blindspots.

A practical, step-by-step approach used by a Norwegian upper secondary school for helping their students to be as innovative and imaginative as possible when selling their business ideas to important potential stakeholders.

A German educational programme focusing on the development of enterpreneurship skills in young people with a view to encouraging them to consider establishing and running their own businesses. It is coordinated throughout the country by the JUNIOR Central Office team who provide continuous support for participants as they run their companies. JUNIOR is open to students from year 9 upwards at all secondary and vocational schools.

Based on the experiences of a Cypriot Lyceum, 'Live training' describes a teaching method aimed at moving away from traditional teacher-student frameworks and standards such as: "I teach, you learn... I act, you imitate!" which eventually ends up as: "I'll tell you what to do, so that you won't do it wrongly!" It is about teaching based on continuous interaction with students.

A project developed by a group of Portuguese secondary schools in which 9th grade students are actively involved in the organisation of a Career Day event during the school year. They also participate in the JA-Portugal programme, 'Economics for Success'.

The Intel® Learn Program has brought the future within reach for more than a million young people in communities around the world where there is limited access to technology in homes and schools. Through participation in this informal education programme, designed to take place after school, students learn the skills necessary to work and compete in the increasingly knowledge-based economy of the 21st Century.

E-Basics, which stands for Entrepreneurship Basics, is a starter toolkit containing modular, self-paced learning on the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, set out in an 'easy to use and learn' format. 

During an Ideation Workshop, students learn to understand the mindset of an entrepreneur and gain hands-on experience of the innovation process. The complex literature on entrepreneurship and innovation has been carefully condensed into an interactive curriculum that allows young people to take charge of their own learning. By the end of the Workshop, teams will have found innovative solutions to a social problem and created a tangible prototype from their ideas.

A description of a 'progression ladder' of accredited qualifications focusing on social enterprise and featuring a 'hands-on' approach. They have been developed by the Real Ideas organisation (RIO) in the UK but have potential for use in many other countries.

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