Abstract
Entrepreneurial knowledge and skills can play a crucial role for young people in order to achieve a bright professional perspective. In this context, entrepreneur-ship education can make a significant contribution to the development of their en-trepreneurial attitudes and skills. It can inspire future graduates to develop and in-ternalize entrepreneurial mindsets and prepare them for the challenges of the fu-ture. This paper introduces four practices for fostering entrepreneurial skills car-ried out at Vienna’s biggest secondary school Vienna Institute of Technolo-gy/Technologisches Gewerbemuseum (TGM). Two of the presented approaches are realized by the TGM alone (the Junior Company and the Learning Office) while the other two are implemented in cooperation with the non-profit associa-tion Practical Robotics Institute Austria (PRIA) and the Automation and Control Institute (ACIN) of the Vienna University of Technology (iBridge and Mak-ers@School, the latter also with further partners).
Highlights
In the current economic situation, countries are facing a very competitive environment
Education can make a significant contribution to the development of entrepreneurial attitudes and skills of young people, and may help them to recognize opportunities, assess the feasibility of ideas, and create high-growth businesses in the future [1]
The learners have rarely the opportunity to practice the concrete abilities they would need as entrepreneurs and only seldom is the focus on the development of the students’ skills and behaviours [5]. It seems that teachers are provided with relatively few choices to conduct their entrepreneurship education
Summary
In the current economic situation, countries are facing a very competitive environment. The project is based on intergenerational co-design workshops between young and old, applying a new innovative method of co-operative design aiming to involve all stakeholders (high school students as developers and seniors as end users) in the design process to ensure that the results meet their needs and are usable. For increasing the interest of children and young people in research and technology, the project will integrate following activities: the development of an innovative “sensitive cuddly toy” (see Figure 1), programming of service robots Through many different topics and entry-points (workshops with seniors, research and development in the fields of ICT and mechanics), the participating students are given the opportunity to enter the scientific world and even finish for example their high school education with a corresponding diploma thesis within the frame of the project. Dedicated students will get the opportunity to deepen their knowledge in the project subject at PRIA or ACIN within the frame of an internship during the summer holidays
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