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Target group of students at secondary vocational schools are young people at an important stage of their decisions for their future life direction. Students often do not know what they want to do in the future, only a small number of students want to become self-employers. Young people do not have a clear view on how to introduce innovative ideas, from the first idea to its launch on the market and its marketing and PR. During their studies many of the VET school students gain knowledge and skills in a specific field, so they have a good basis for the eventual start their own businesses. The schools, however, still put the emphasis more on formal skills. The school system doesn't support the development of creativity a lot. Although entrepreneurship education is part of the educational curriculum, in practice we can only see subjects focused on general knowledge of economics and management, without more specific focus on the development of entrepreneurial knowledge, skills and attitudes.Students also don't have sufficient presentation skills, they often have troubles with speaking in public, sell their ideas and clearly articulate their intentions.Find your inner inventor (FYII) project addressed the above mentioned issues. The main objective of the project was to develop and verify in practice the training module called Find your inner inventor. The module was intended to be used by VET schools as a supplement to the teaching of Economics and Business subjects.Sub-objectives of the project were as follows:- to analyse the educational needs of students of VET schools in product development and business skills- to develop key competencies of students of VET, especially transversal skills: creativity, effective presentations, entrepreneurship- to show students a comprehensive business process project cycle from developing an idea to its launching to the market- to give students contact with the scientific communities and eliminate their fear of science- to improve the presentation skills of the students. The main target group were VET students. The project partnership included three academic partners:- VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, the Czech Republic- University of Bielsko-Biala, Poland and- University of Iceland, Iceland.Within the project the partners cooperated together and used their specific skills in the field.First of all we did the analysis of the educational needs of VET school students. Based on the results of the Analysis, the objectives of a module were set up, a structure of a programme was prepared and then partners started working on the particular parts of the FYII Course.The FYII programme consists of 5 educational days + the dissemination event at the end of the Course. When the developing phase was over, we put the Programme into practice (testing phase) and checked the results (feedback from the students and teachers). We introduced the programme to the VET schools we cooperated with. There were more than 400 students involved in the testing phase of the Course. At the end of the testing phase we did the final correction of the programme according the received feedback and prepared a brochure for VET schools. The final conferences took place in each participating country. The events were intended for the teachers of the VET schools and other stakeholders that were not a part of this project to introduce a programme to them.The impact of our project was aimed at VET schools as well as at universities. Both groups acquired a new experience, number of new competences as well as they developed their present ones. The programme aimed at showing students that running their own business is not impossible. The programme can help students in their future decissions connected to their own self-emploability or choosing their future studies. VET teachers first of all gained a new methodology that can be used in their teaching of economy and business subjects. They also got an experience that learning by doing is very effective way of developing students‘ copmpetencies. We have the complex methodology of Find your inner inventor available in English and national languages as well in order to be used not only for us but also for other schools and universities interested in this kind of programme.
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