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The video features two mini-companies managed by students in Estonia and Spain. The students between 15 and 17are taught the art of managing their own company. They have to define the objectives, create departments, gather capital, buy and sell products, find clients, negotiate with banks , ….. and dissolve the company. This documentary includes interviews of young entrepreneurs as well as of Jan Figel, Commissioner for Education, and Maive Rute, director at DG for Enterprise and Industry
Setting up a company while you're still at school is one of the most innovative education
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projects that the European Commission supports. In these two schools in Spain and in Estonia,
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pupils aged between 15 and 17 spend a year learning to manage their enterprise, which
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is called a mini-company. It's just like the real thing, defining the company's objectives,
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creating departments, attracting capital, buying or making products, putting together
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a catalogue, looking for customers, negotiating with banks and suppliers, sales, shipments,
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balance sheets and liquidation. This is not role play, but a real business and one which
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the pupils take very seriously. I thought the course was quite a good innovation in
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this establishment and it gave us the chance to get to know the world of business. The
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two schools we visited, Circulina and Cudillero, are located in economically deprived regions.
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What better reason to develop an entrepreneurial spirit? Teramar, the Spanish mini-company,
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imports and exports handicraft products with a mini-company in Mexico. It also sells products
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on the local market. The Estonian company, RAT, uses lots of creativity making fun covers
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for computer mice. It's one way of soothing the stress of overworked employees. They've
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sold them on both local and foreign markets, at international fairs and competitions. This
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experience has enlarged our ability to look at things around us. Thanks to all kind of
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fairs and journeys and European competitions, we have had a change to meet numerous people
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and we have proven to ourselves that if we want to achieve something, then we can manage.
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It has been a great thing that we have achieved it through JOY. Twenty years ago, schools
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wouldn't have included projects like this in their curriculum. Today, things have changed
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and the future of the new generation depends on its entrepreneurial ability. Schools have
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understood this and are looking to develop closer ties with public and private companies.
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I believe the role of the European Commission is first of all to be the promoter behind
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the idea and we see our role also as the facilitator of the dialogue about the mini-companies to
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help the ministries in the member states to talk to each other, the ministers from the
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education side and then the people responsible for economic development, so that the concept
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that we need to provide education for young people to become entrepreneurs would be much
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more widely known. The objective of the mini-companies project is not to turn every pupil into an
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entrepreneur. By choosing to participate, they know that they can have the experience of
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their lives and develop confidence in themselves. The most difficult thing for them is to assume
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responsibilities. If the project is going well, it's thanks to their hard work, but
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if they make a mistake, it is going to impact the bottom line. And so they take responsibility
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for their tasks. This is the most important thing.
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Mini-companies are part of the Lisbon strategy that aims to create prosperity and social
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well-being in Europe by developing the competitiveness of our economy, also through innovative projects.
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By developing a spirit of enterprise at school, these young people can actively prepare for
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a professional career with less risk of failure.
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I think such competence is important to everybody, not only in basic and secondary education,
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but also in higher education and in the systems of lifelong learning. So that's why I strongly
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recommend to our public or private authorities to use entrepreneurship as part of curricula
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in our schools.
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Fernando was managing director of Terramar. Anne had similar responsibilities at RAT,
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and this experience could soon bear fruit.
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For sure, it seems to me right now that I want to go study economics. And in the future,
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to establish my own company, a real company.
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In the future, I want to study economics and work in business, because I like figures,
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mathematics and, above all, money.
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- Nivel Intermedio
- Autor/es:
- The European Union
- Subido por:
- EducaMadrid
- Licencia:
- Reconocimiento - No comercial - Sin obra derivada
- Visualizaciones:
- 1167
- Fecha:
- 23 de julio de 2007 - 10:58
- Visibilidad:
- Público
- Enlace Relacionado:
- European Commission
- Duración:
- 05′ 02″
- Relación de aspecto:
- 4:3 Hasta 2009 fue el estándar utilizado en la televisión PAL; muchas pantallas de ordenador y televisores usan este estándar, erróneamente llamado cuadrado, cuando en la realidad es rectangular o wide.
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- 25.93 MBytes