High Level Symposium on “Entrepreneurship Education: Teacher Education as critical success factor”, Budapest 7-8 April 2011
Offering specific training to teachers is crucial in order to make entrepreneurship education generally available and effective: a High Level Symposium was organized on 7-8 April in Budapest to tackle that issue. The aim of the Symposium was to bring together practitioners and policy makers from across Europe to determine how to develop effective teacher education systems for entrepreneurship. At the heart of the event was the question of how best to equip teachers with the skills, knowledge and attitudes they need to foster the entrepreneurial mindsets of young people.
Around 90 participants from EU institutions and from 28 countries attended the Symposium, including representatives from the 
national Ministries for Enterprise and Education, from universities and teacher colleges, from business associations, together with teachers, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders.
A set of five “Grand Challenges” were examined during the Symposium:
- How to help primary and secondary teachers to become agents of change through initial teacher education
- Encouraging and enabling in-service teachers to engage in entrepreneurship education through continuing professional development (CPD)
- How to develop teachers as coaches/facilitators of learning
- How to develop support systems for teachers
- How to develop the role of the school and its community (their partners) to help teachers to provide learning opportunities in entrepreneurship.
Final report: Enabling Teachers as a Critical Success Factor 
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The Budapest Agenda [97 KB] : Enabling Teachers for Entrepreneurship Education
Main conclusions from the 5 Workshops
| Grand Callenge 1 [44 KB] | Grand Callenge 2 [55 KB] | Grand Callenge 3 [48 KB] | Grand Callenge 4 [42 KB] | Grand Callenge 5 [49 KB] |
| How to help primary and secondary school teachers to become agents of change through initial teacher education | Encouraging and enabling in-service teachers to engage in entrepreneurship education through continuing professional development (CPD) | How to develop teachers as coaches/facilitators of learning | How to develop support systems for teachers | How to develop the role of the school and its community (their partners) to help teachers to provide learning opportunities in entrepreneurship |
Other documents
Flash report [20 KB]
Agenda [120 KB]
The Grand Challenges [48 KB]
Participants [117 KB]
Presentations by Speakers
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Ms Una Sjørbotten, Innovation Norway [575 KB]
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Ms Jane Delfino, Manchester Academy [2 MB]
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Mr Arnaud Raskin STREETWIZE [2 MB]
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Mr Malcolm Hoare, University of Warwick [230 KB]
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Mr Ron Mahieu, Umeå University [204 KB]
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Ms Anne Tiikkala, University of Turku [552 KB]
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Ms Daniela Ulicna, Ms Anette Curth, GHK [537 KB]
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Ms Maja Ljubić, SEECEL [440 KB]
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Mr Andrew McCoshan, Ecorys [26 KB]
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Mr Anthony Gribben, European Training Foundation [162 KB]
