Entrepreneurship education plays a key role in supporting young people to adopt a positive mindset. The entrepreneurial mindset is referred to a certain way of thinking by which young people confront disadvantages, mistakes and problems in life. The entrepreneurial mindset enables young people to overcome those challenges, be decisive and take on responsibilities for any of their behaviours and activities.
What does sustainability have to do with entrepreneurship education?
Sustainable entrepreneurship education teaches young people on the one side how to successfully use current resources to achieve sustainable growth while not risking future generations ́ ability to access resources. On the other side sustainable entrepreneurship competences enable young people to value sustainability; to support equity and justice for current and future generations; to approach a sustainability problem from all sides, to formulate current and potential challenges in order to identify sustainable approaches to anticipating and preventing problems, and to mitigating and adapting already existing problems.
In this working group the participants will explore best practices and strategies for teaching sustainable entrepreneurship.
Learning objectives:
- Describe the core idea behind the sustainable entrepreneurship education.
- Engage with one another to spark innovative thinking and develop practical ideas for the implementation of the concept “sustainable entrepreneurship education” in teaching
- Apply ideas to your work by creating a usable product, such as a facilitation guide, or lesson plan.