IDEEC - Impact-Driven Entrepreneurship Education for Children
How do you empower children and young people to come up with entrepreneurial solutions to the world's big problems?
With the toolkit from the IDEEC project, teachers can design impact-oriented entrepreneurship education. With a whole series of lesson plans, plus an underlying competency framework and simple impact measurement method, teachers can get started right away. The project is a collaboration of the HvA with Amsterdam Impact, Fawaka Entrepreneurship School and six international partners in four countries.
"Entrepreneurship can be a 'force for good.' With the IDEEC project, we help teachers make that practical at school."
Maarten Hogenstijn — project leader and lecturer on social entrepreneurship
Background project
IDEEC is a partnership of nine organizations from five countries, with the HvA in the lead. Together we developed the tools available on the website www.ideec.eu, supported by a grant from the European Union.
The project grew out of the need the partners felt together to equip our children and youth with knowledge and skills that will enable them to find entrepreneurial solutions to major challenges, such as climate and inequality.
Goal
IDEEC supports teachers, entrepreneurship education providers and policy makers to create effective programs that empower children ages 9 to 15 to develop entrepreneurial solutions to environmental and social challenges.
Method
In developing the IDEEC competency framework, the existing frameworks Entrecomp, Greencomp and soft skills were combined. This leads to a program with three phases: challenge framing, solution testing and impact making. The four fundamental principles are:
1. The learning environment promotes and encourages diversity, equity, and inclusion
2. The content is competency-based.
3. Learning is learner-centered and learner-driven.
4. The teacher is a facilitator.
Results
The IDEEC project produced four products:
- The toolbox with dozens of immediately usable lesson plans that teachers can use to design an impact-oriented program in entrepreneurship education.
- Underlying the toolbox are the IDEEC competency framework and a teaching guide for designing an effective program.
- Following the toolbox is a series of simple tools to measure the impact of these programs.
- Finally, there is the policy brief, to inform and inspire policy makers about the added value of impact-based entrepreneurship education.
Societal impact
The great challenges of our time call for entrepreneurial solutions. The IDEEC project provides a foundation and a set of practical building blocks for educators to build effective programs that help children develop impact-driven entrepreneurial skills. Policymakers can further promote impact-driven entrepreneurship education so that it becomes the new norm.
Education
IDEEC's products are directly applicable in primary and secondary school education and also provide useful leads for other levels of education, such as secondary and higher vocational schools. The IDEEC project joins a series of other research projects on entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship. The most direct link is with the Fawaka project, which depicted the impact of social entrepreneurship education for children.
Team
Maarten Hogenstijn
Ingrid Bruynse
Partners
In addition to the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, the following are involved:
Netherlands
Fawaka Ondernemersschool
Amsterdam Impact (gemeente Amsterdam)
Spain
Junta de Extremadura (regionale overheid)
Centro Internacional Santander Emprendimiento (CISE)
Italy
Invento Innovation Lab
Fondazione E35
Scotland
Social Enterprice Academy
Australia
Future Anything