The Entrepreneur’s Skills Certificate® as a path to business and financial knowledge and entrepreneurial skills.
Basic career competencies
At the turn of the millennium, the European Commission formulated “entrepreneurial skills” as one of eight key skills for lifelong learning. At the same time the member states were called upon to communicate these skills to young people by the end of their time in school.
Sound business and financial knowledge and entrepreneurial skills have therefore become a self-evident part of general education to an even greater extent in recent years. The Entrepreneur’s Skills Certificate® goes back to an initiative of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber and is offered as a voluntary supplementary qualification from grade eight in school. This successful model was recognised by the European Commission in 2006 and the umbrella association of European chambers of commerce Eurochambres in 2011 as a best-practice example of entrepreneurship education.
A reliable standard, online examinations and a certificate recognised at European level meant that it spread internationally. The Entrepreneur’s Skills Certificate® has already been translated and adapted to national legislation in Germany, France, Albania, Kosovo, Mali and Ethiopia. Pilot projects are starting in the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Greece and Serbia.
Sound business and financial knowledge and entrepreneurial skills have therefore become a self-evident part of general education to an even greater extent in recent years. The Entrepreneur’s Skills Certificate® goes back to an initiative of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber and is offered as a voluntary supplementary qualification from grade eight in school. This successful model was recognised by the European Commission in 2006 and the umbrella association of European chambers of commerce Eurochambres in 2011 as a best-practice example of entrepreneurship education.
A reliable standard, online examinations and a certificate recognised at European level meant that it spread internationally. The Entrepreneur’s Skills Certificate® has already been translated and adapted to national legislation in Germany, France, Albania, Kosovo, Mali and Ethiopia. Pilot projects are starting in the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Greece and Serbia.
