Impact-Driven Entrepreneurship Education for Children

The children of today face grand challenges, ranging from the climate crisis to social challenges like increasing inequality. We need to equip our future leaders with knowledge and competences tha...

The children of today face grand challenges, ranging from the climate crisis to social challenges like increasing inequality. We need to equip our future leaders with knowledge and competences that allow them to find entrepreneurial solutions to grand challenges. The project ‘Impact-Driven Entrepreneurship Education for Children’ (IDEEC) supports teachers in school education, impact-driven entrepreneurship education providers, and educational and economic policy makers to build and support effective programs that empower children aged 9-15 to develop entrepreneurial solutions for environmental and social challenges. In the IDEEC project, we have built a set of tools for impact-driven EE programs in order to address the following main needs: •Bring new entrepreneurship models in schools; increasing attention for social / impact-driven entrepreneurship •Develop social entrepreneurial skills and attitudes of children •Make impact entrepreneurship accessible for every child •Develop skills of teachers that allow them to act as facilitators for empowerment of children in relation to social entrepreneurial skills. •Show policy makers that investing in impact-driven entrepreneurship education leads to multiple forms of value creation