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ENTREPRENEURIAL
TRAINING AND EDUCATION
IN FLANDERS
Ben Bruyndonckx,
Pedagogical Counsellor SYNTRA Flanders
Overview
• Entrepreneurial Training: The
SYNTRA network
• Entrepreneurial Education: The
Flemish Action Plan
• Reflections on the past and the future
of EE in Flanders
SYNTRA Flanders Overall
Network Structure • 1 central coordinating government
agency (Brussels): SYNTRA Flanders
(linked with Departments of Work and
Education)
• 5 SYNTRA training centres (Independent
non-profit organisations)
– More than 20 training locations
Apprenticeship
Entrepreneurial Training and business management
Specialization
Training levels SYNTRA
Taylor made training program or in company
Profile of SYNTRA Trainers
• Mostly short-term contracts
• Competence-based approach
• Support: pedagogical counsellors
Professional on the job
Trainer Pedagogical competences
Coaching Tension
Possible!
Entrepreneurial Education
Action Plan
• Action Plan for the promotion of
Entrepreneurial Spirit and
Entrepreneurship through Education
• Since 2006
• First review: 2011
• Second review: under development
Policy partnership
• Flemish Departments of Economy,
Education, Work and Agriculture
• Flemish Agencies: Enterprise Flanders
and SYNTRA Flanders
• Enterprise Flanders Agency
• Cabinets of the Ministers for Economy,
Education, Work and Agriculture
Strategic objectives (2011-2014)
1. Pupils, students and course participants have
the necessary entrepreneurial spirit when
leaving education.
2. Before leaving education, pupils, students and
course participants have had the opportunity to
prepare themselves for entrepreneurship.
3. Pupils, students and course participants are
motivated to choose for entrepreneurship.
4. Teachers show entrepreneurial spirit and have a
balanced view of entrepreneurship.
Some of the Actions
• Terminology
• Communication
• Support and training of teachers
• Learning pathway
Terminology
• Agreement to use the same, common
terminology:
– Entrepreneurial spirit (entrepreneurial attitude) -
initiative, creativity, innovation, independence, risk-
taking, negotiating, working collaboratively in teams, …
– Entrepreneurship (starting up your own business)
Becoming an entrepreneur in profit or non-profit sector
Communication
• Co-operation between existing
communication channels
– www.competento.be (knowledge centre
on EE)
– www.klascement.be (educational
resources network)
• Entrepreneurial Class Day
Support and training of teachers • Exchange of experiences (also in
Higher Education)
• Biennial information fair
• Teacher placements in industry +
coping with the problem of
replacement
• More attention to entrepreneurship in:
– Initial teacher training
– In-service training of teachers:
practical training, work experience,
workshops, …
• Yearly publication of the EE Inspiration
guide
Learning pathway (1)
• Principles:
– Entrepreneurial education must be
provided in all levels of education
– Entrepreneurial education must be
provided in all courses of study
– Entrepreneurial spirit is provided
throughout the complete learning
pathway
– Entrepreurship is gradually developed
within the learning pathway
Entrepreneurial
spirit
Positive
imaging
Economic
awareness:
importance of
enterprises for
society
Entrepreneurship –
starting up a
business:
individual choice
of each
pupil/student
Nursery
education x x Primary
education
x x x
Secondary
education
x x x x
Tertiary
education x x x x
Learning pathway (2)
Reflections
• VisiOO-day (Nov. 14): informal
feedback From the working field of
EE (Policy, Providors, Education)
Reflections (2)
• Words are important: start from “Entrepreneurial
spirit” + attention to different forms of
entrepreneurship
– ‘Slow Magic’?
• More support for trainers needed
• Support EE vision/culture development at school
level
• Financial: not only support of innovation, also of
mainstreaming + empowerment of the schools
• Learning pathway: stimulate EE-development in
non-economic learning topics
Contacts
• International network on EE:
www.seetnetwork.eu – Active via