Good practice:

Entrepreneurship in Education - Youth Companies

The main objective is to inspire and qualify tomorrow's value creators by shaping an entrepreneurial mindset based on the UN SDGs.

Embedded in the general curriculum at the upper secondary school, entrepreneurship in education is transferrable to other educational levels.

What do we do?
Utilizing the method of entrepreneurship in education, pupils establish, run, and wind up their own youth companies supervised by teachers and representatives from the business community within a safe framework.

How does it work?
Through a collaborative guided process among pupils, educators, and business representatives, the youngsters are actively involved and take responsibility for driving the work forward and collecting their first entrepreneurship experiences. They develop their business idea, set out a business plan and a budget. Practical tasks provided by the programme support the pupils to make choices, design solutions and thereby foster an entrepreneurial mindset. "Trying and making mistakes", learning from experiences, and reflection are crucial parts of the learning process.

Experiential learning, creativity, and collaboration, prepare future value creators for working life.

Essential for success is that entrepreneurship in education is an integrated part of the general curriculum at schools. That means that all related activities are not in addition to regular teaching; they instead replace it.
In addition, the county administration established Junior Achievement Agd

The company programme at Junior Achievement Agder provides well-documented learning effects.
Some results, young entrepreneurs have:
More knowledge of and probability become entrepreneurs
higher scores on project management, coping skills, problem-solving skills, and teamwork, taking initiative and societal competence
For more info, visit icee-eu.eu, and ostforsk.no

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Despite that this programme targets upper secondary schools, the concept is easily transferrable to other regions and other demographic groups, which has been recently demonstrated in the Erasmus+ project InDigSE.