Main Goal

Learn from each others best practices by having students do projects about them.

Organisation

This requires some coordination by the partners / teachers. E.g., dividing the topics and guiding the students.

Resources

Audiovisual equipment is needed for the production.

Outcome

A benchmark containing audiovisual presentations.

References

The Commercialpolis entrepreneurship education benchmark.

When you want to learn about each others best practices, why not have the students create audiovisual projects about them?

We explored this possibility in the pre-work for the Rotterdam project week.

The assignment was as follows:

“Explain the working method of the entrepreneurial topic we choose at your school. Explain the goals, the way of working, the experiences. Try to ‘use’ teachers, students and (if possible) people from companies/clients. Make it visual, not only talking heads. End with Logo of your school and Erasmus+.

Use copyright free music 

Length between 1 to 2 minutes.”

(Full briefing document.)

Coordination

This exercise requires that the coordinators beforehand distribute the topics, in order not to get similar videos from all partners. Within Commercialpolis we made a matrix of entrepreneurial initiatives with all our partners, and based on that divided the topics.

These are the topics we used for the Rotterdam pre-work.

  • GLR: Working with real customers.
  • Gradia: Setting up mini-enterprises.
  • GBS St. Gallen: Having close ties with companies and the employers’ federation.
  • IES Puerta Bonita: Working together with an incubator.
  • Newcastle College: Top-year creative enterprise.
  • Arteveldehogeschool: Multidisciplinary teams work for real costumers.
  • ETIC: multidisciplinary teams with students from different training areas develop businesses.

Outcome

The results of the Rotterdam prework can be found on the Commercialpolis website.