The ENTRE@VETSCHOOLS TOOLBANK consists a collection of professional development opportunities offered in each partner country and the EU level, along with e-tools, e-resources and good practices to support the career guidance services and the acquisition of entrepreneurial skills and competences.
Career Guidance Resources
Career Counseling and Career Management Services
Career Counselling services are provided to young people aged 14-35, aiming at helping them to make the best possible decisions in terms of education and professional development.
How can a Teacher help in Student Career Guidance?
The role of teacher in career guidance.
Unconventional Career Advice
Christine Bailey shares how 5 famous quotes have shaped her career.
Three Questions to unlock your authentic career
Ashley who works as a career coach to college students and fresh graduates share three questions for those who seek to unlock their career goals and land the jobs that they deserve.
Advisory and Vocational Education Service (pg 92-94)
MOEC guide to education and on advisory and vocational education service.
Youth Information Centre (KEPLI)
Youth Information Centre (KEPLI) provides career counselling services to young people according to the guidelines of the European Youth Information and Counseling Agency (ERYICA).
Emphasys Career Guidance and Academic Advisory
Educational Services and Career Counselling to students
100+ Enlightenment Best Practices
A European Erasmus+ Programme which offers a virtual library of best practices for career counselling and guidance activities in Bulgaria, Italy, Austria, Greece
EUC Career Center
The EUC Career Center provides personalized and proactive career services to enhance students’ life experiences, optimize their academic choices and contribute to achieving their professional goals.
UNIC Careers and Employability Office (UNIC C&E)
UNIC C&E offers advice and guidance on career development such that students/alumni increase their probability of landing a job. Offerings include CV and cover letter support, mock interviews, advice on professional dress code/attitude/behaviour and many more.
ELM MAGAZINE
The EU ranks Denmark as one of the pioneers in bringing entrepreneurial values to education. Accordingly, Denmark has seen a remarkable cultural change: the current status of entrepreneurship is comparable to rock-stardom and new segments of students are getting more motivated in learning
Entrepreneurship Education: A road to success
Entrepreneurship education is given a significant role in supporting the main goals of the Europe 2020 strategy. Therefore, it is important to gather knowledge and evidence from across Europe and elsewhere that shows whether and how the impact is achieved.
To flourish in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we need to rethink these 3 things
In certain industries, the labour force is being eroded by the integration of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies, and in light of this entrepreneurship the second – and often forgotten – leg of employment needs to be urgently re-examined.
Preparing students for jobs that don't exist
The massive shifts technology and globalization that are expected to transform the workplace have already begun. In many industries and countries, some of the most in-demand jobs didn’t even exist five or 10 years ago — and the pace of change will only accelerate.
10 COMMANDMENTS OF INNOVATIVE TEACHING
As a new teacher you must remember getting into my classroom for the first time is a challenge.
JA Europe
JA Europe brings the public and private sectors together to provide young people in primary and secondary schools and early universities with high-quality education programs to teach them about enterprise, entrepreneurship, business, and economics in a practical way.
9 Types of Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship classified into 9 types that involve multifaceted and diversified activities for providing new things to society.
Dragons Den
A British TV programme allows several entrepreneurs an opportunity to present their varying business ideas to a panel of five wealthy investors.
Thinkertoys summary
How can you be the person who comes up with those ideas? Through fun and thought-provoking exercises, you'll learn how to create original ideas that will improve your personal life and your business life. Michalko's techniques show you how to look at the same information as everyone else and see something different. With hundreds of hints, tricks, tips, tales, and puzzles, Thinkertoys will open your mind to a world of innovative solutions to everyday and not-so-everyday problems.
Here’s Why Creativity and Entrepreneurship Must Co-Exist
This article discusses the benefits of creativity and entripeneruship coexisting together. It discusses how creativity goes beyond coming up with ideas and extends to adapting, navigaiting uncertainty and adapting to new problems as they arise.
Calm
Let the ideas flow in and out! Calm is a app for meditation and mindfulness - key states that aid creativity. This app can be used for free.
Creative Enteprise Toolkit
A creative tool kit - a tool kit endorsed by the British Council to help business ideas for creative ideas.
Rachel Calleja
A case study of a Rachel Calleja, a performance educator. She turned her creative passion for performance and dance into a viable career.
Discover - Natural History Museum
Be inspired and discover something new with the online National History Museum
Art out loud: How one Kilkenny artist is letting his creativity do the talking
A case study of creativity and collaboration!
Mark Wallinger: The artist who wants to provoke pupils' creativity
Good News: An aritist inspiring creativity in young people in School
Everyone is born creative, but it is educated out of us at school
An article expressing how creativity is educated out of us!
Lacking inspiration? Exercise found to boost creativity
An article on how exercising and moving the body can generate ideas.
From A to Z: 200 Essential Resources for Entrepreneurs Building a Business
An A-Z of essentials for entrepeneurs
Yoga For Complete Beginners - 20 Minute Home Yoga Workout!
Let the ideas flow in and out with this home work out for Yoga.
Jane and Louise Wilson: 'We push and challenge each other'
How collaboration can challenge and provoke creativity!
The BEST Advice for Entrepreneurs - Robert Kiyosaki
The BEST Advice for Entrepreneurs - Robert Kiyosaki
Michael Seibel's Advice For Young Entrepreneurs (CEO@Y Combinator) | Decode Innovation Conference
Michael Seibel's Advice For Young Entrepreneurs (CEO@Y Combinator) on Decode Innovation Conference
Should You Skip College to Start a Business?
Expert advice on whether you should continue college or drop out to start a business.
UX/UI case study: Career Compass — A career orientation mobile app
We designed a mobile app to help students access career information and support to make the right decisions. We started by conducting semi-structured interviews to define the core problems, then designed and tested our hi-fi prototype with the target users.
Entrepreneurial / Educational Skills
- Entrepreneurship is about spotting opportunities
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctfWCH5j0w
Short Description: In this video, Ross Hall, director of Ashoka Education Strategy and member of Ashoka Global Leadership Team, speaks about this competence and how schools can turn it into action. - Gibbs’Reflective Cycle
Link: https://www.ed.ac.uk/reflection/reflectors-toolkit/reflecting-on-experience/gibbs-reflective-cycle
Short Description: A model to help you reflect and make sense of an experience - How to properly reflect on failure
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvhTgA4IVnM
Short Description: A great video on how to approach and reflect on failure. - Banishing fialure by changing your perception
Link: https://psychcentral.com/blog/banishing-failure-by-changing-your-perception/
Short Description: An article on how changing our perception can banish failure - Change Your Definition of Failure: It’s How You Get Better
Link: https://lifehacker.com/reframe-how-you-think-about-failure-by-changing-its-def-596193760
Short Description: An article on how changing our definition of failure can help us to improve. - How perception of failure affects success
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvXYIKenP4o
Short Description: A TEDx talk on how our perception of failure affects our success - Bill Clinton: Learning to Work with Others
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5momchgLRFE
Short Description: A video of Bill Clinton explaining how to learn to work with others to gain different perspectives - The Rise of peer-to-peer entrepreneurship
Link: https://aswellblog.com/the-rise-of-peer-to-peer-entrepreneurship-e581863b04ee?gi=a34f6ddfb899
Short Description: An article on how mentorship and peer learning is the future of entrepreneurship - How to give an effective feedback?
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff6HTj4FYQs
Short Description: A video explaining how to provide an effective and constructive feedback - Learning from Experience
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlmiCo9hUTI
Short Description: A video explaining why being able to learn from experience is important for your success - 10 ways to to get feedback as entrepreneurs
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEeFSlj_Sjk
Short Description: Famous entrepreneurs share their views on why you need to get feedback on your way to success and how to get it - Reflecting back on my successes and failures
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHh2xA3VqBs
Short Description: An example of self-reflection on failures, successes and valuable lessons - Self-reflection: how to make the most from every experience
Link: https://blog.iqmatrix.com/self-reflection
Short Description: An example of self-reflection on failures, successes and valuable lessons - The Joy of Getting Feedback
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4zNEl7XgXI
Short Description: An article on how to make the most from every experience - Ali Baba owner and his failures
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2QqvItdejQ&t=2s
Short Description: A video from the Ali Baba owner explaining how he succeeded through constant failures.
- Take responsibility for your life
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00vZraHIcXI
Short Description: Take Responsibility For Your Life – Motivational Speech by Fearless Motivation. - Take responsibility
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHZ2CzwcEIA
Short Description: Verantwortung übernehmen – ist einfach zu lernen - 9 Ways to Take Responsibility for Your Life
Link: https://thriveglobal.com/stories/9-ways-to-take-responsibility-for-your-life/
Short Description: “We often hear to take 100% responsibility for our life. What is the big deal about it? The big deal is that it moves you from victim to victor of your life.” - Working Independently
Link: https://www.selbstbewusstsein-staerken.net/verantwortung-uebernehmen/#Warum_Selbstverantwortung_so_verdammt_wichtig_ist
Short Description: Auf dieser Seite findest du praktische Tipps und Übungen, um ein richtig starkes Selbstbewusstsein aufzubauen. - Change Your Definition of Failure: It’s How You Get Better
Link: http://www.webguru.neu.edu/professionalism/professionalism/working-independently
Short Description: We’ll discuss some strategies that will help you learn how to become a self-motivated, self-regulating independent scientist. You will find that the principles you learn here are foundational to lifelong learning, professional growth, development, and long term career satisfaction. - Learn to work independently, son
Link: https://tedbauer2003.medium.com/learn-to-work-independently-son-6fa7337c45b
Short Description: udicrous how often we discuss “trust” and “reputation” in business journalism and yet, it barely matters to many managers at the execution level. - Work Hard In Silence, Let Success Make The Noise – Study Motivation
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeJRIk1hd4E&t=4s
Short Description: Celebrities and entrepreneurs tracing their path - Lernen lernen: 13 Tipps aus der Gehirnforschung
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CgmMnBjnz0&t=1s
Short Description: Lern fürs Leben oder Prüfungen wie Wissenschaftler und Gehirnforscher es machen würden. - Wright Brothers First Flight, 1903
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kjRL-Q-KBc&t=1s
Short Description: The Brilliant Engineering of first fight
- 7 CHARACTERISTICS OF SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS
Link: https://due.com/blog/7-characteristics-of-successful-entrepreneurs/
Short Description: Plenty of people have interesting ideas or a lot of cash to throw around — and they never quite manage to find success in their ventures.
- Here’s How To Apply Creative Thinking As An Entrepreneur
Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/pragyaagarwaleurope/2018/06/04/heres-how-to-apply-creative-thinking-as-an-entrepreneur/#7c6b37e65d9e
Short Description: An article discussing how to apply creative thinking to an entripeneurial role. Find also about famous people who have been successful in this! - Creative thinking – how to get out of the box and generate ideas
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEusrD8g-dM
Short Description: A 13-minute TEDx talk. Corazza is a professor at the University of Bologna and the founder of the Marconi Institute of Creativity. He teaches science and the applications of creative thinking. He advocates thinking outside the box and backs it up with science. - Definition of a creative entrepreneur
Link: https://www.britishcouncil.pl/en/programmes/arts/yce-competition/definition-creative-entrepreneur
Short Description: A detailed breakdown of the British Councils definition of a Creative Entrepeneur. In addition the qualities of a creative entrepenur; like that of leadership, ability to network with others and an understanding of the market, are broken down and discussed in detail. - 10 Hacks to being Creative
Link: https://youtu.be/uTnGHknbu8U
Short Description: A 5-minute video suggesting 10 hacks to boost creativity, This video spills the secrets of creative people. - Mozart Unlock the Creative Spirit (Mozart Effect Volume III)
Link: https://youtu.be/ZywGDo6UY_M
Short Description: Mozart to help unlock your creative spirit! - 25 Ways to Be More Creative
Link: https://www.inc.com/christina-desmarais/25-ways-to-be-more-creative.html
Short Description: 25 methods to be more creative
- Riscul in afaceri / Risk in business
Link: https://www.didactic.ro/materiale-didactice/risc-in-afaceri-clasa-a-xa
Short Description: Project for metodological suport: Risk in business, 50 minutes lesson - Antreprenoriat 101
Link: https://antreprenoriat101.ro/
Short Description: Information, guides, articles, opinions on initiating, administering or developing a business - Planning: Objectives and Importance of Planning
Link: http://www.economicsdiscussion.net/india/planning/planning-objectives-and-importance-of-planning/26343
Short Description: Information about the relevance of planning process - Project Planning Objectives – Examples and Advice
Link: https://www.brighthubpm.com/project-planning/20136-examples-of-project-planning-objectives/
Short Description: Planning advisory resources - Online Learning for Sports Management
Link: http://www.leoisaac.com/planning/strat027.htm
Short Description: Resources for management – online access - Objectives of planning
Link: https://www.slideshare.net/MSOindia/importance-of-planning-34277141
Short Description: Slide share resources accesible on LinkedIn - Program Increment (PI) Objectives
Link: https://www.scaledagileframework.com/pi-objectives/
Short Description: A summary of the business and technical goals that an Agile Team or train intends to achieve in the upcoming Program Increment (PI). - Meeting Planning Know How
Link: http://www.meetingplanningknowhow.com/home
Short Description: Meeting conceptualization, design, operational analysis and control all require your complete attention. - Management by Objectives (MBO)
Link: http://www.1000ventures.com/business_guide/mgmt_mbo_main.html
Short Description: Breakthrough e-coaching site with resources for education. - Create Effective Plan in 8 Steps (Planning Process)
Link: https://iedunote.com/create-effective-plan
Short Description: Online resources for planning - 10 Principles Of Effective Networking
Link: https://profitblitz.com/principles-of-effective-networking/
Short Description: Online resources for networking - This section presents our circular economy toolbox, including information, collaboration, qualification and financing tools to promote the transition towards a circular economy.
Link: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/moveco/section/circular-toolbox
Short Description: Collection of on-line resources for circular economy - The Ellen MacArthur Foundation works with business, government and academia to build a framework for an economy that is restorative and regenerative by design.
Link: https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/
Short Description: Collection of on-line resources for circular economy - 31 Networking Principles I Learned from Keith Ferrazzi
Link: https://medium.com/constraint-drives-creativity/31-networking-principles-i-learned-from-keith-ferrazzi-6f8ef3ab8fee
Short Description:Collection of principles of networking - 5 Principles of Effective Networking
Link: https://www.vandelaydesign.com/effective-networking/
Short Description: Collection of principles of networking - Networking – Business networking tips and techniques for networking events and networking websites
Link: https://www.businessballs.com/building-relationships/networking/
Short Description: Collection of principles of networking rules, tips and others.