Personal initiative and entrepreneurial thinking and acting are essential for young people who want to help shape tomorrow’s economy and society. Both can be trained and learned. At present, however, the subject of «entrepreneurial thinking and acting» is given too little attention at vocational schools in Switzerland. We intend to change this. As part of the pilot project «Entrepreneurial Thinking and Acting at Vocational Schools in Switzerland - Economic, Social and Ethical Dimensions», we are currently testing the implementation of the myidea.ch program as part of general education classes (GE).
The myidea.ch program is based on an established teaching-learning concept that is evaluated and further developed on a continual basis. In the current pilot project, we are concentrating on our work in the four pilot cantons of Bern, Solothurn, Valais (French-speaking part) and Ticino. However, an expansion of the program is planned.
The project was initiated by representatives of vocational schools, universities, and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The project started in August 2018 and will end in August 2021. It is financed by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI.
Our focus areas are:
«We are committed to ensuring that all vocational trainees in Switzerland - that is, 75,000 young people entering basic vocational training each year - are given the opportunity to acquire entrepreneurial skills. They shall actively shape the economy and society and realize their ideas.»
«The economy can be shaped. Personal initiative and entrepreneurial thinking and acting are prerequisites for this. We enable vocational school teachers to offer their students the opportunity to develop the interdisciplinary competence of «entrepreneurial thinking and acting» as well as self-efficacy and personal initiative.
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