EntreComp for SDGs Hackathon
Tuesday 23 May (13:00 – 17:00 CEST)
This event was part of a project for the European Commission and the European Innovation and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) to achieve synergies in the implementation of EntreComp, in particular by linking entrepreneurial learning to the green and digital transition.
The hackathon was hosted by EIT Raw Materials, and supported by Bantani Education, All Digital, EIT Food, and PEEP.
This hackathon was an online event where educators and professionals from across the worlds of entrepreneurial and educational practice were challenged to work together for half a day and create solutions for reaching the sustainable goals. Working in collaborative groups, they found innovative training ideas to achieve one of the following SDGs:
Each group hsd two hours to develop a training idea related to a chosen SDG and develop it using a Business Canvas Model provided by the organisers. The teams were supported by facilitators, but worked in full autonomy to develop their project. Finally, each team presented their findings to a Jury of Experts in the entrepreneurial field. The best idea was chosen by all the participants through live voting and awarded a special prize!
Outcomes
By joining the EntreComp for SDGs Hackathon, participants:
Agenda
Tuesday 23 May (13:00 – 17:00 CEST) on Zoom
13.00 Event and Welcome by the European Commission and the organiser EIT RawMaterials
13.10 Getting Ready – Scoping the aims and ambitions of creating synergies between EntreComp and SDGs
13.15 Into Action – Sharing the plan and instructions for the hackathon
13.20 Hackathon Kick-Off – Participants form groups and develop their ideas
15.50 Pitching – The chance to do a sixty second pitch on each idea
16.35 Announcement of 3 finalists with live public voting
16.45 Winner Announcement and Award Ceremony
17.00 Closing remarks by Pilvi Torsti, Director of the European Training Foundation (ETF)
What are the Sustainable Development Goals and why are they relevant to entrepreneurial learning?
Increasingly, entrepreneurial learning is the approach to exploring new ways to reach the SDGs. Entrepreneurial competences are critical to enabling young people to innovate, start businesses, and generate their own employment opportunities.
EntreComp is the framework that is widely used to show what competences help young people to think and act entrepreneurially in life and work – supporting them to be entrepreneurial throughout life in different contexts and for different purposes.
How can it be used for these SDGs?
Gender equality – helping young people to understand how entrepreneurial they are, community programs to introduce girls to digital and entrepreneurial skills, training for women to develop AI-based businesses…
Quality Education – create teaching and learning to explicitly develop entrepreneurial competences, creating value for others through learner-led projects, entrepreneurial action projects based on calls-to-action from local community…
Decent Work and Economic Growth – design new training to support social entrepreneurs, skills programs for cooperatives, self reflection tools for business support organisations, developing training for scaling businesses…