Make SENSE - Social ENtrepreneurship for School Education

In line with the ever growing attention of European and International Community towards entrepreneurship, starting in 2003 with the Green Paper “Entrepreneurship in Europe” and presented in 2006 as 1 of the 8 key competences for the European Parliament to be included in high school education programmes (Gen. Ob. 23 of “Rethinking Education” paper, 2012), the UN with the 2019 “World Youth Report” introduces the necessity to promote a particular kind of entrepreneurship: social entrepreneurship.This theme, focused on value creation, mainly affects teachers, expected to take into account the interdependence between personal and social development, favouring didactic going beyond its educational aim, contributing to trigger a positive impact on world.The project “MAKE SENSE” will support teacher in this, giving both tools and educational methodologies based on an integrated use of two models: EntreComp (European Framework for Entrepreneurship Competence) and Competitive Arena (Market Innovation and Development model useful to boost entrepreneurship, to be transferred at school context).The project activities will involve 1 high-school for each country (SL, RO, UK and IT), in order to create and test social entrepreneurship courses at school, aimed to develop key competences both for teachers and students that could boost employability and civic participation.20 students for each school (around 80 in total, of which at least 30% low-performer in order to guarantee equals opportunity of participation), will test the courses in the form of complementary and/or integrative activities recognizable as school-credits, laboratory didactic activity as a new teaching curriculum or as an innovative teaching method to be included in one or more existing curriculum.5 teachers minimum for each school (tot. 20) will participate to training workshop (in class and remotely) specifically designed to create planned IOs, involving trainers as well (1 for each country) in order to guarantee project replicability.Regarding the methodology, the intervention will be based on Competitive Arena Model (Storbacka & Nenonen, 2012), market analysis and innovation model previously tested by Eulab Consulting in a business context and which will be transferred in an educational setting to promote innovative entrepreneurial ideas, useful to respond to one or more SDGs of Agenda 2030.The model introduce the concept of “competitive arena”, a particular configuration of dimensions and categories within a complex problem, identified thanks to techniques such as Morphological Analysis and Action-Research, proper to empower strengths and weakness of Generation Z, respectively creativity/innovation and team-working.New evaluation tools will be designed and tested to measure 5 highly professional competences common to both EntreComp model (2016) and The European Reference Framework of Key Competences for Lifelong Learning (2018) and linked with Social Entrepreneurship: economical-literacy, digital & tech-based, interpersonal, active citizenship ed entrepreneurship.Results will include the implementation of social entrepreneurship initiatives at school, in order to highlight the link between education and employability with the development of contents and teaching methods that will follow a language more suitable to Generation Z and their needs and characteristics.The expected impact is a greater young and school leadership, united together to reach sustainable development goals.Expected results common to both students and teachers is the development of new competences and practical tools in the field of social entrepreneurship, to trigger individual and group initiatives of social utility.Thanks to the project MAKE SENSE, an innovative teaching model will be transferred and validated to the school field, a model regarding young social entrepreneurship with solid scientific basis, able to stimulate European education policies with a positive impact not only on education quality but also to its ability to generate employment and respond to social problems.