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In this detailed data resolve life skills learning and innovation through foreign languages and entrepreneurship.
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Issue 1 – September 2014
The LIFE SKILLS project intends to
produce an innovative approach to
addressing the needs for middle
and high school education. In
cooperation with two schools from
Denmark with the professional
support of Danish Foundation for
Entrepreneurship – Young
Enterprise, a youth training
organisation and also a design
entrepreneur from Portugal, a
school from Grand Bourg in
Guadeloupe,
LIFE SKILLS – Learning and Innovation through
foreign languages and entrepreneurship
The LIFE SKILLS
Project has
successfully
been accepted
by the French
National
Agency, under
the ERASMUS+
program
This project has been funded with support from the European
Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the
views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use, which may be made of the information
contained therein.
coupled with a local SME
Caribsat and the Mayor of Grand
Bourg on the picturesque
Caribbean island of Marie
Galante. The project will produce
innovative student centred and
student generated training
programs, in line with the
amelioration of student success
rates in education, by creating a
link between companies and
schools, thus promoting
entrepreneurship and creative
thinking processes.
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LIFE SKILLS Issue 1 September 2014
1
Grand Bourg
The city of Grand Bourg on the
Caribbean Island of Marie Galante
in Guadeloupe, Caribsat and the
College de Grand Bourg on the
same island represent the French
team. Grand Bourg is the most
important commune on Maire
Galante. The mayor of Grand Bourg,
Maryse Etzol, is the coordinating
and main partner of the project.
Caribsat is a relatively new
company, which recently launched
high-speed Internet hotspots and
Internet solutions via satellite for the
regions of the French Caribbean.
2
Denmark
The Danish team cosists of two
schools, Brejning Efterskole, and
Oesterbyskolen and the Danish
Foundation for Entrepreneurship –
Young Enterprise. Brejning
Efterskole, which is a private
boarding school for youths taking a
final year of college before pursuing
further education, specialises in the
field of educating their students to
become project managers.
Oesterbyskolen is a public school
for children aged 5 to 16. The school
is situated in a multicultural area of
Denmark. For the past few years they
have worked on a project called
norm breakers, where students are
3
taught and given the role to act as
good examples for other students, to
help achieve better results in school
and in life. The Danish Foundation for
Entrepreneurship - Young Enterprise
is the national knowledge centre and
focal point for the development of
entrepreneurship teaching at all
educational levels.
Portugal
The Portuguese team consists of a
young and dynamic arts and crafts
company named AKTO-Arts &
Krafts Technologies. AKTO
specialises in Conservation and
Restoration and design as well as
being a company that trains youths in
cooperation with the local cabinet
making school in Lisbon.
A Presentation of the Teams
The partners
participating
in the project
are from
Guadeloupe,
Portugal and
Denmark
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LIFE SKILLS Issue 1 September 2014
1
Project aims
The project aims at, through
collaboration between different levels
of society at social, linguistic and
cultural levels, implementing teacher
and student generated materials and
approaches to learning. Synergies with
organisations from the community, who
wish to work with opportunities to
develop innovation and support the
idea of young entrepreneurs, will assist
us in developing an international, inter-
cultural social network, linking different
socio-economic sectors to each other
and help improve levels of skills for
employability and new business
creation (including social
entrepreneurship), and be actively
involved in their local communities,
stretching out to receive students from
partner countries, increasing the
European network and making it easier
for youth to seek inspiration in another
2
country and adding value to
European project hence creating
links between businesses and
communities.
The use of foreign languages will
play a central
role.
The core idea of the LIFE SKILLS project is
to give teachers the tools to aid students
acquire, through democratic processes
and incorporated lesson plans, on the spot
real life skills and experiences. The
project also aims at creating environments
in the participants’ local communities
where an array of activities, grounded in
the idea of self help and organisation, will
enhance and create an environment where
best practises and ideas for start-ups are a
possibility.
What is it all about?
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LIFE SKILLS Issue 1 September 2014
3
Adapting to the
Modern World
Due to the challenges of the
modern world, whether you
have a university, a degree or
no education at all, it's
becoming increasingly difficult
to follow traditional routes to
finding a job. As a result, new
measures are called for. The
youths of today need to be
prepared for a different life
than their parents did, as
unemployment is becoming an
increasingly bigger problem
in most EU countries.
Modernisation of
Education
There is an inherent need to
modernise education, in order
to become more in line with
the labour market of today's
society, equipping it with more
creative, flexible and
entrepreneurial young people,
hence better prepared for the
challenges of today’s ever
changing work environment.
EU has agreed that at least 40
% of young people in the EU
should have a university-level
qualification by 2020. This
won't happen on its own,
taking into consideration the
economic crisis,
unemployment, changing
demographics, the emergence
of new competitors, new
technologies and modes of
working.
4
Innovative Aspects
This project is innovative in it's
use of youths teaching peers
and acting as role models and
norm breakers. The project
aims to teach teachers and
students across Europe and
possibly the world, teach
children and youths how to
become project managers-
bringing design thinking into
the classroom. The young
people of today are the ones
who will be running projects in
the future, and they will be the
ones who will be starting up
new enterprises and using
their new-found knowledge in
order to make it in life and
change society.
Grassroots Movement
The project will create a
grassroots movement among
youths, teachers and students,
to lead the way to self help,
and inherently help to change
the high unemployment rates
among youths, especially
those at risk of early school
leaving. This approach will be
to meet the needs of the
youths, whose needs are not
being met in schools today, in
order to make a change in the
norms and patterns that they
follow in life, giving them
choices that are meaningful
and relevant to them and
opportunities that will open
doors to a brighter future. The
activation and inclusion of
students in the project will also
ensure the sustainability of the
project in itself, by giving it a
5
life of its own. It will not only
rely on the teachers' work in
the classroom, or on teachers
giving lessons in the flipped
classroom style, students will
be able to teach themselves
how to become independent
and dynamic innovators
wherever they are, whether it's
in the bedroom, living room,
or a classroom, and no matter
which part of society they
come from. All one will need is
access to the Internet.
LIFE SKILLS will
focus on changing
the norms and
patterns that are
followed in life,
giving youths
choices that are
meaningful and
relevant to them
and opportunities
that will open doors
to a brighter future.
Contact Issue 1 September 2014
Contact:
Cecilia Leboeuf
E-mail: [email protected]
For more information, if you would like to learn more about
innovation in education, or if you have another project that you
think would benefit from clustering with ours, do not hesitate
to contact us.
Let’s cluster our projects
Join Life Skills now!
Find us on Facebook!
Facebook mail: [email protected]
Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifeskills2014/
This project has been funded with support from the European
Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the
views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use, which may be made of the information
contained therein.
doc_269416710.pdf
In this detailed data resolve life skills learning and innovation through foreign languages and entrepreneurship.
$
Issue 1 – September 2014
The LIFE SKILLS project intends to
produce an innovative approach to
addressing the needs for middle
and high school education. In
cooperation with two schools from
Denmark with the professional
support of Danish Foundation for
Entrepreneurship – Young
Enterprise, a youth training
organisation and also a design
entrepreneur from Portugal, a
school from Grand Bourg in
Guadeloupe,
LIFE SKILLS – Learning and Innovation through
foreign languages and entrepreneurship
The LIFE SKILLS
Project has
successfully
been accepted
by the French
National
Agency, under
the ERASMUS+
program
This project has been funded with support from the European
Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the
views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use, which may be made of the information
contained therein.
coupled with a local SME
Caribsat and the Mayor of Grand
Bourg on the picturesque
Caribbean island of Marie
Galante. The project will produce
innovative student centred and
student generated training
programs, in line with the
amelioration of student success
rates in education, by creating a
link between companies and
schools, thus promoting
entrepreneurship and creative
thinking processes.
2 2014-1-FR01-KA200-008866
LIFE SKILLS Issue 1 September 2014
1
Grand Bourg
The city of Grand Bourg on the
Caribbean Island of Marie Galante
in Guadeloupe, Caribsat and the
College de Grand Bourg on the
same island represent the French
team. Grand Bourg is the most
important commune on Maire
Galante. The mayor of Grand Bourg,
Maryse Etzol, is the coordinating
and main partner of the project.
Caribsat is a relatively new
company, which recently launched
high-speed Internet hotspots and
Internet solutions via satellite for the
regions of the French Caribbean.
2
Denmark
The Danish team cosists of two
schools, Brejning Efterskole, and
Oesterbyskolen and the Danish
Foundation for Entrepreneurship –
Young Enterprise. Brejning
Efterskole, which is a private
boarding school for youths taking a
final year of college before pursuing
further education, specialises in the
field of educating their students to
become project managers.
Oesterbyskolen is a public school
for children aged 5 to 16. The school
is situated in a multicultural area of
Denmark. For the past few years they
have worked on a project called
norm breakers, where students are
3
taught and given the role to act as
good examples for other students, to
help achieve better results in school
and in life. The Danish Foundation for
Entrepreneurship - Young Enterprise
is the national knowledge centre and
focal point for the development of
entrepreneurship teaching at all
educational levels.
Portugal
The Portuguese team consists of a
young and dynamic arts and crafts
company named AKTO-Arts &
Krafts Technologies. AKTO
specialises in Conservation and
Restoration and design as well as
being a company that trains youths in
cooperation with the local cabinet
making school in Lisbon.
A Presentation of the Teams
The partners
participating
in the project
are from
Guadeloupe,
Portugal and
Denmark
3 2014-1-FR01-KA200-008866
LIFE SKILLS Issue 1 September 2014
1
Project aims
The project aims at, through
collaboration between different levels
of society at social, linguistic and
cultural levels, implementing teacher
and student generated materials and
approaches to learning. Synergies with
organisations from the community, who
wish to work with opportunities to
develop innovation and support the
idea of young entrepreneurs, will assist
us in developing an international, inter-
cultural social network, linking different
socio-economic sectors to each other
and help improve levels of skills for
employability and new business
creation (including social
entrepreneurship), and be actively
involved in their local communities,
stretching out to receive students from
partner countries, increasing the
European network and making it easier
for youth to seek inspiration in another
2
country and adding value to
European project hence creating
links between businesses and
communities.
The use of foreign languages will
play a central
role.
The core idea of the LIFE SKILLS project is
to give teachers the tools to aid students
acquire, through democratic processes
and incorporated lesson plans, on the spot
real life skills and experiences. The
project also aims at creating environments
in the participants’ local communities
where an array of activities, grounded in
the idea of self help and organisation, will
enhance and create an environment where
best practises and ideas for start-ups are a
possibility.
What is it all about?
4 2014-1-FR01-KA200-008866
LIFE SKILLS Issue 1 September 2014
3
Adapting to the
Modern World
Due to the challenges of the
modern world, whether you
have a university, a degree or
no education at all, it's
becoming increasingly difficult
to follow traditional routes to
finding a job. As a result, new
measures are called for. The
youths of today need to be
prepared for a different life
than their parents did, as
unemployment is becoming an
increasingly bigger problem
in most EU countries.
Modernisation of
Education
There is an inherent need to
modernise education, in order
to become more in line with
the labour market of today's
society, equipping it with more
creative, flexible and
entrepreneurial young people,
hence better prepared for the
challenges of today’s ever
changing work environment.
EU has agreed that at least 40
% of young people in the EU
should have a university-level
qualification by 2020. This
won't happen on its own,
taking into consideration the
economic crisis,
unemployment, changing
demographics, the emergence
of new competitors, new
technologies and modes of
working.
4
Innovative Aspects
This project is innovative in it's
use of youths teaching peers
and acting as role models and
norm breakers. The project
aims to teach teachers and
students across Europe and
possibly the world, teach
children and youths how to
become project managers-
bringing design thinking into
the classroom. The young
people of today are the ones
who will be running projects in
the future, and they will be the
ones who will be starting up
new enterprises and using
their new-found knowledge in
order to make it in life and
change society.
Grassroots Movement
The project will create a
grassroots movement among
youths, teachers and students,
to lead the way to self help,
and inherently help to change
the high unemployment rates
among youths, especially
those at risk of early school
leaving. This approach will be
to meet the needs of the
youths, whose needs are not
being met in schools today, in
order to make a change in the
norms and patterns that they
follow in life, giving them
choices that are meaningful
and relevant to them and
opportunities that will open
doors to a brighter future. The
activation and inclusion of
students in the project will also
ensure the sustainability of the
project in itself, by giving it a
5
life of its own. It will not only
rely on the teachers' work in
the classroom, or on teachers
giving lessons in the flipped
classroom style, students will
be able to teach themselves
how to become independent
and dynamic innovators
wherever they are, whether it's
in the bedroom, living room,
or a classroom, and no matter
which part of society they
come from. All one will need is
access to the Internet.
LIFE SKILLS will
focus on changing
the norms and
patterns that are
followed in life,
giving youths
choices that are
meaningful and
relevant to them
and opportunities
that will open doors
to a brighter future.
Contact Issue 1 September 2014
Contact:
Cecilia Leboeuf
E-mail: [email protected]
For more information, if you would like to learn more about
innovation in education, or if you have another project that you
think would benefit from clustering with ours, do not hesitate
to contact us.
Let’s cluster our projects
Join Life Skills now!
Find us on Facebook!
Facebook mail: [email protected]
Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifeskills2014/
This project has been funded with support from the European
Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the
views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held
responsible for any use, which may be made of the information
contained therein.
doc_269416710.pdf