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The initiative Startups à l'Ecole ("Startups at School") aims at connecting schools with young innovative startups with the help of mediators (incubators, fablabs...). Students actively collaborate with the innovators through flexible projects and work on creating prototypes or other tangible outcomes. The program was launched by the entrepreneurship incubator Agoranov in Paris in 2015. Since then, more than 1500 pupils and students have benefited from the approach.

Solvay Business School (VUB), in cooperation with three funding partners – Close The Gap, BNP Paribas Fortis and Euroclear – created the Chair for Social Entrepreneurship to bring together both academia and business, become a center of excellence for social entrepreneurship and support social entrepreneurs in their ambition to develop entrepreneurial and innovative approaches for resolving the sustainability issues of our society.

Offene Netzwerkstatt Innviertel is a growing young association providing meeting and sharing spaces and open workshop learning opportunities through e.g. a Fab Lab and wood and metalwork workshops. The makerspaces are open for both school children and adults to develop their own ideas within various topics,  with support from expert staff. An important focus is on the cooperation with kindergartens and schools in the form of an extended classroom as well as on sustainability and upcycling.

Our vision at the Entrepreneur Academy is connecting the world of entrepreneurship with the social aspect of life. Empowering people who want to create a real positive impact in the world to become real change makers is our mission. At the Entrepreneur Academy we aim to make a difference in the world. We work with amazing people of all ages, gifted, with passion and love for life and all it has to offer. Our core motto is: Learn - Practice - Improve – and have fun doing so.

Our aims are the integration of all teaching subjects and implementation of Entrepreneurship Education as a teaching principle according to the intentions of the curricula, an Austria-wide cooperation with multipliers in all federal states, establishment and operation of an information and coordination centre at the Schumpeter Commercial Academy and raising awareness of the topic and opportunities. We offer development of workshop concepts, helpful tools for personal development, cooperation and exchange of experience, certification of schools as entrepreneurship schools and networking.

Our goal is to make young people the creators of the future through Entrepreneurship Education. We promote their entrepreneurial attitude through various events: the Entrepreneurship Summit Vienna, the Trash Value Festival and many more. With initiatives such as Start Your Project or the Changemaker Programme, we offer young people a platform and support them with workshops and mentors in implementing their own ideas. For teachers, we organise numerous training courses. Our work, developed since the company was founded in 2000, resulted in the Youth Start Entrepreneurial Challenges Programme, which was scientifically researched as part of the largest European field trial for entrepreneurship education.

In the project, the Ministries of Education from Austria, Luxembourg, Portugal and Slovenia worked together from 2015 to 2018. The aim was to develop an innovative, flexible, transferable and scalable entrepreneurship programme and to research its impact. The programme addresses through various challenges a series of key competences in a holistic learning approach: empathetic interaction, goal orientation, initiative, creative brainstorming and self-confident implementation of projects, and it can be used for different age groups in different subjects and school types.

The UKids project aims to establish entrepreneurship (esp. social entrepreneurship) education as a permanent element in teacher training, in the form of teaching and learning courses for the primary level and projects at partner primary schools in the various participating countries. Promoting entrepreneurial skills and competences will be implemented through initial teacher/trainer education and continuous professional development. The programme will teach children to understand themselves as part of the society and encourage them to assume responsibility for minor social challenges, modelled on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

DaVinciLab's vision is to empower young learners aged 6–16 to develop the most of their potential. We are based in Vienna, Austria, and offer a playful learning environment, tools, and lesson plans to schools and families in the area of Coding& Robotics Lab, Media Lab and Design Lab.

OfpassiON: "Where Robotics meets Passion!" We use Robotics, which is our Passion, to help others discover, cultivate and pursue their own. So Robotics becomes a means and not an end: this allows us to develop in people not only technical skills (hard skills) but also, and above all, transversal skills (soft skills)!

EntreCompEdu strengthens teacher competences for entrepreneurial learning by providing teachers with an easy-to-understand skills framework and engaging blended professional development course. We build creative and entrepreneurial mindsets in educators based on EntreComp, the EU's Entrepreneurship Competence Framework, outlining the skills that teachers can use to facilitate entrepreneurial learning in their classrooms. The 10 partners in this Erasmus+ project will also develop a database with practical examples for educators to use.

Analogue to Digital: Designing Inclusive Education with STEAM & Social Impact. Our mission is to design inclusive Education with a variety of dynamic projects, such as Inclusive STEAM workshops, YouthPreneurs (linking Youth to Entrepreneurs, Innovators, Professionals and Creatives to develop entrepreneurial skills) and Teaching the Educators. Re-designing a new way of Education by linking creativity and digital play. Digital inclusion for neuro-diverse and neurotypical children and youth. Designed by Rozina Spinnoy and her son Harris, who is on the Autism Spectrum. By BIDs Belgium and Belgium Design Council.

Spark Penketh is the UK’s first makerspace within a state school, at Penketh High School, weaving maker education into the curriculum so that the creativity of the student as an innovator can flourish, and providing pupils with the opportunity to develop their ideas also outside the classroom with industry leaders and experts. The Spark Upskill Programme is a whole-school initiative that addresses the current shortage of skills for the emergent job market. In addition to in-school initiatives, they have launched a community programme called ‘Sparked by Penketh’ outreaching to primary schools, libraries and museums.