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CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN SCHOOLS
LINQ Conference, Rome 16-17 May 2013

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WHAT IS CENTRES?
CENTRES is a multi-country project co-funded by
the European Commission, British Council and
eight organisations across Europe
• CENTRES project is delivered in Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Poland, Slovenia
and the UK.
• The project creates a European forum for issues relating
to entrepreneurship education specific to the creative
industries and for sharing innovation and best
practice in this area.

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WHAT DOES CENTRES AIM TO ACHIEVE?
• To promote models and methodology that can be used by schools and other
organisations delivering entrepreneurship education to develop pupils’ creativity
and entrepreneurship skills
• To promote ways in which to engage creative entrepreneurs / businesses
productively with schools as well as engage school-age students in practical
business opportunities in the creative industries

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PROJECT OUTCOMES
• online knowledge bank of materials, models, tools,
methodologies and guidelines that can be used by
teachers and organisations working with this type of
skills development in schools
• Europe-wide online community of interest centred
on the knowledge bank
• recommendations to policy-makers on ways to
mainstream innovative practices in entrepreneurship
education

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By the end of the project the network will have:
• increased the number of schools undertaking
entrepreneurial activity in partnership with creative
businesses
• increased the creativity and entrepreneurship skills of
young people
• increased the number of young people who choose a
career within the creative industries
• made a significant contribution to the development of
policy in entrepreneurship education

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CENTRES UP-TO-DATE RESULTS
Pilot activities:
• Pupils 500 -> Schools 40 -> Teachers 300 ->Wider audience (via FB/website/
YouTube) – over 40,000
• Key policy makers: Polish Minister of Education, Prime Minister of Slovenia,
Senior Policy Makers in Estonia

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CENTRES International Conferences
• Kraków, Poland – September 2012
• London, UK – January 2013
• Brussels, Belgium – April/May 2014
• 2 State of Innovation Raports on creative entrepreneurship in schools
http://www.centres-eu.org/knowledge-bank/state-of-innovation-report-no-2

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THANK YOU!
Contact:
Ewa Ayton, Head, Arts & Culture, British Council Poland
Email: ewa.ayton@britishcouncil.pl