Innovative entrepreneurship pathways

Webinar series 21 August - 11 September 2024

As the world of work undergoes major transformations, entrepreneurial learning remains relevant in offering a realistic and achievable means of developing transferable skills that society and the labour market expects of today’s citizens. Rapid changes in the workplace necessitate equipping youth with entrepreneurial skills. Entrepreneurial learning in TVET aims to promote creativity, innovation, and an entrepreneurial mindset which equips youth with the necessary skills to access and thrive in the world of work while supporting their personal development. Many TVET programs often lack this component, hindering graduates' ability to thrive in the evolving job market or pursue self-employment.

The Innovative Pathways Symposium 2024 is a dynamic event designed to explore and showcase approaches in entrepreneurship education and practices in TVET. Focusing on three pivotal areas - digital entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and greening entrepreneurship - this symposium brings together educators, practitioners, and innovators from diverse Technical and Vocational Education and Training institutions globally.

The outcomes will enhance understanding of innovative approaches in entrepreneurship and provide TVET teachers and trainers with practical tools and methodologies for implementing entrepreneurship programs that empowers TVET graduates to develop an entrepreneurial mindset, create new businesses and access diverse employment opportunities.

Objectives

• To highlight innovative practices in entrepreneurship education across digital, social, and sustainable domains.
• To facilitate knowledge exchange, peer learning and collaboration among TVET institutions
• To inspire new approaches to integrating entrepreneurship in TVET curricula.

Guiding resource: Entrepreneurial Learning for TVET institutions guide

Webinar series details

The series consists of four Zoom webinars of 90 minutes. All webinars were being delivered in English.

Concept Note and Agenda

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Webinar 1. Promoting Entrepreneurial Learning in TVET

Presentation Slides:

• Innovative Pathways for the Future of Entrepreneurship in Digital, Social, and Sustainable Spheres by Dessie Aliandrina
• Transferability of UNESCO-UNEVOC entrepreneurship promising practices by Lenny Martini
• Entrepreneurial Learning Institution Canvas (ELIC) Framework and Innovative Pathways for the Future of Entrepreneurship in Digital, Social, and Sustainable Spheres by Johannes Lindner
  

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Webinar 2. Digital Frontiers: Transforming Entrepreneurship in the Connected Era

Presentation Slides:

• Exploring the linkage and interaction of resources within the entrepreneurial ecosystem during digital transformation of entrepreneurship education in TVET, by Xiuzhen Zeng
• Leveraging GenAI to enhance innovational and entrepreneurship experiences. Temasek Launchpad Innovation & Entrepreneurship Roadmap, by Thomas Lee
• Involving learners in co-designing educational games (lessons from educational games on taboo topics) by Sally Gregersen
  

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Webinar 3. Green Innovations: Fostering Sustainable Entrepreneurship for a Green Economy

Presentation Slides:

• Circularity at Yetroseland Fashion Academy, by Yetunde Akande (YouTube video)
• Green Innovations: Fostering Sustainable Entrepreneurship for a Green Economy, by Iñigo Araiztegui
• Developing entrepreneurial skills at the Bilingual Technical School of Nkolbisson, by Noah Noah Jean Crepin
• Green TVET and entrepreneurial practice through recycling waste products from Barista trainings in CSITE, by Daisy C. Bungallon, Josef A Sab-it, Jr, Glenda Ollay
• Organic waste to value initiative, by Thida Swe

Additional Links provided by Tknika:

• Innovative and Promising Practices (UNESCO-UNEVOC)
• Urratsbat – Tknika
• Sarea – Tknika
• Ekingune – Entrepreneurship on professional training (tknika.eus)
• VI BASQUE VOCATIONAL AND TRAINING PLAN – Tknika

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Webinar 4 . Empowering Change: Entrepreneurship for Social innovation

Presentation Slides:

• Shweta Singh and Team - The Developing Critical Agricultural Skills Courses in India (DCASCI):
  Partnership-based Model for developing critical agricultural skills for entrepreneurship 
• Abbas Karimi - Instructor Training Centre Instructor (ITC-TVTO), Iran:
  Encouraging youth on Entrepreneurship for Social Innovation through Entrepreneurship Summer Camp | Video
• Alessandro Mele – Cometa, Italy:
  The COMETA Model on Training Entrepreneurship Skills to Disadvantaged Youth
• Ruzmatov Kakhramon - Institute for the Development of Vocational Education, Uzbekistan:
  Entrepreneurship approaches for improving entrepreneurial literacy of young people and women.

Discussant: Ms Jacqueline Kisato – Kenyatta University, Kenya

Closing summary by Johannes Lindner:
Innovative Pathways: Showcasing the Future of Entrepreneurship in Digital, Social, and Sustainable Spheres