Theoretical Background

Abstract

Introduction The project Young Entrepreneurship – Developing in Action (YEDAC) aims to the creation of trans-European models for primary and secondary school teachers to support the development of their skills and methods in applying entrepreneurial learning to different teaching subjects and to different contexts. The project aims to find solutions for the challenge of increasing unemployment in European countries, especially among young people. Entrepreneurship is recognized by the Council as worthy of promotion because it is seen that entrepreneurial competence can provide benefits to society, even beyond their application to business activity (EDUC 27). Entrepreneurial competences are, in this project, linked to the development of entrepreneurial education that is the main purpose of this project. The topic has been approached in different ways. In the first phase the development of a didactic entrepreneurial model is seen as one of the main targets that enables the achievement of the objectives in the project. It includes the shared perception of the topic of entrepreneurial education. The questions that have been set for clarifying the phenomenon are;