Investing in Europe’s Future – Manifesto for Unlocking Human Potential

1. Investing in Europe’s Future – Manifesto for Unlocking Human Potential European Action Group (EAG) for Entrepreneurship Education World Economic Forum Europe Summit June 2011 http://europeanactiongroup.wordpress.com/

2. About the EAG • The European Action Group for Entrepreneurship Education was formed following the World Economic Forum Roundtable in May 2010 on the occasion of the Forum’s Europe Summit in Brussels. • The group is pursuing actions outlined in the manifesto from the roundtable, which in turn builds upon recommendations in the 2009 World Economic Forum Report Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs • The EAG membership includes academics, policy makers, business leaders and NGOS committed to entrepreneurship education. • The EAG is currently led by Chair: Jan Muehlfeit, Chairman of Microsoft Europe and Vice Chair: Julie Mercer, Associate Partner of Deloitte Consulting. • Kimberly Voltero, Microsoft, and Karen Wilson, GV Partners, have been the facilitators.

3. EAG Working Groups 1) Outreach (Chair: Jan Muehlfeit) Building an outreach plan to get the messages from the Manifesto out to policy makers and other key stakeholders. This will include further shaping the key messages and possible communication channels as well as identifying key events taking place in Europe as well as arranging high level meetings with policy makers. 2) Good Practices (Co-Chairs: Anthony Gribben and Julie Mercer) Creating an online space to collect good practices in entrepreneurship education from across Europe. This working group will need to set up a system for collecting, reviewing and posting these good practice case studies. The completed good practices will be posted on the EAG blog. 3) Indicators for Entrepreneurship Education (Chair: Anders Hoffman) Working with other organizations already wrestling with the issue of indicators for entrepreneurship education to help make progress, on a global not just a regional level. This working group should link to similar groups in other regions following the WEF roundtables in MENA and LATAM.

4. Outreach Group Update • Creation of the EAG Blog: http://europeanactiongroup.wordpress.com/ • Sharing related reports and materials from the World Economic Forum Entrepreneurship Education Initiative. • Member information, notes from working groups, and a calendar of related events. • Outreach through events and 1:1 meetings • Key members have attended more than 25 events and spoken about the Investing in Europe’s Future – Manifesto for Unlocking Human Potential, reaching more than 2000 education influencers in Europe.

5. Homepage Past events Page EAG BLOG

6. Good Practices Group Update • Template developed for collecting good practices • Initial list of good practices developed and organizations contacted • Updates on 10 of the good practices from the 2009 paper and Europe roundtable report. • Over 10 new case studies being developed (see list on page 8). • Final good practices to be posted on EAG blog

7. Good Practices Template

8. Good Practices for possible consideration on the EAG compendium

9. Indicators Progress to Date • An common definition of entrepreneurship education is needed to define the set of relevant indicators. • Frameworks can be developed for a national/regional level and for a institutional level. • An initial framework has been developed for the national level to compare broad statistics across countries. • Built on the OECD framework for measurement: Input => Output => Outcome => Impact • More work will be done for the institutional level as well as the “within country” level – linked to policy specific goals.

10. Framework for National Level Framework for measuring entrepreneurship education at a national level • How do we achieve the desired effect? • Which effect do we desire to achieve? Input Activity/Output Outcome User-oriented Impact on society Is entrepreneurship part of education policy/strategy at the national/regional level Is entrepreneurship education required at all level of education? Amount of government funding for entrepreneurship education programmes Amount of private funding for entrepreneurship education programmes Number/percentage of schools (at each level) offering entrepreneurship education Percentage of students having access to entrepreneurship education Number of educators teaching entrepreneurship Student access to extracurricular entrepreneurship offerings Percentage of students trained in entrepreneurship (at each level) Percentage of population with training in entrepreneurship Percentage of entrepreneurship educators trained in topic. Increased interest in starting a company/desire for business ownership Increased entrepreneurial skills Number of students/alumni starting businesses/becoming involved in entrepreneurial ventures Additional survival and growth in firms started by entrepreneurship students Higher productivity in firms hiring entrepreneurship students Monitoring national entrepreneurship education policies Source: Hoffman et al “Measuring Entrepreneurship Education”

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12. EAG Members Include • David Atchoarena, Director, Division for Education Strategies and Capacity Building, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), France • Simone Baldassarri, Administrator, DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission, Belgium • Peter Baur, DG Education and Culture, European Commission, Belgium • Jeroo Billimoria, Executive Director, Aflatoun, Child Social and Financial Education • Lena Bondue, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), Belgium • Rosie Connolly, Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE), UK • Andrew Fiddaman, Managing Director, Youth Business International (YBI), United Kingdom • Sannie Fisker, DG Education and Culture, European Commission, Belgium • Anthony Gribben, Team Leader – Entrepreneurial Learning, European Training Foundation (ETF), Italy • Klaus Haftendorn, Know about Business (KAB) Program, International Labor Organization (ILO) • Paul Hannon, Director, Research and Education, National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE), UK • Prof. Dr. Mark Harris, Associated Professor for Technology, Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Director, Higher Education & Research Europe, Middle East, Africa, Corporate Affairs Group, Intel Corporation, Germany • Anders Hoffman, Director, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy, Danish Enterprise and Construction Authority, Denmark • Kigge Hvid, Chief Executive Officer, Index, Denmark • Caroline Jenner, Chief Executive Officer, Junior Achievement Europe, Belgium • Tatjana Koke, Minister of Education and Science, Latvia • Holger Patzelt and Helmut Schönenberger, Technical Univeristy of Munich, Germany • Julia Prats, Professor and Head of the Entrepreneurship Unit, IESE, Spain • Olivier Silberzahn, EMC • Slavica Singer, Professor and UNESCO Chair, J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek , Faculty of Economics in Osijek, Croatia • Christine Volkmann, Professor, Chair of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, Schumpeter School of Business and Economics, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany • Kimberly Voltero, Academic Marketing Manager, Microsoft Worldwide, Microsoft, France • Shailendra Vyakarnam, Director, Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom • Karen Wilson, Founder GV Partners, Advisor & Board Member EFER, Senior Fellow, Kauffman Foundation