Entrepreneurship in VET
Entrepreneurship and Employment Training Activity (MEEETA), Phase IV
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 01.01.2019 - 31.12.2021 |
| Implementatori | Dacia Youth Resource Centre (Soroca); Business Women's Association (Balti); Women's Association of Gagauzia (Comrat); Chamber of Commerce and Industry, all technical vocational education institutions in Moldova |
| Partners | Ministry of Education, Culture and Research; Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development, and Environment; Ministry of Finance |
| Budget | 757’743 € |
Project description:
The project promotes the economic empowerment of young people by facilitating the development and application of their entrepreneurial skills. The main activities are:
- Building and strengthening national capacity for entrepreneurship education in technical vocational education institutions.
- Assisting final year students and graduates of technical vocational education institutions to develop and implement business plans through business plan competitions, additional post-graduation courses in entrepreneurship for business start-up, business start-up grants.
- Assist key ministries with an impact on technical vocational education in coordinating joint efforts towards better regulatory policies in the field of entrepreneurial activity of technical vocational education institutions.
- Support technical vocational education institutions in planning and monitoring their entrepreneurial activities.
Objectives:
To further increase the chances of graduates of technical vocational education institutions to find a job or start a micro-enterprise in their own country.
Expected results:
- There is national capacity to provide entrepreneurship education in technical vocational schools
- Final year students and graduates of technical vocational education institutions apply their own entrepreneurial skills
- Technical vocational education institutions practice entrepreneurial activities for better quality of students’ vocational training and income generation.
Results:
103 teachers from 66 vocational training institutions were trained in teaching the subject “Basics of Entrepreneurship” and in developing teaching projects;
78 teachers of mathematics, Romanian, modern languages, IT and civic education were informed about developing entrepreneurial skills;
184 vocational and technical education graduates were trained in post-VP entrepreneurial training courses and 121 (65.8%) business plans submitted by vocational and technical education graduates;
47 VET school graduates applied for grants, 29 (61.7%) of them received support in the form of equipment grants amounting to approximately USD 37,410.00;
Regulations of the national competition among VET schools “Best Business Plan-2016”, developed and approved by the Ministry of Education;
2 editions of the national competition “The best business plan” held, in which 130 vocational education graduates participated, of which 11 students were designated winners in the competition
18 master-classes organised for 394 graduates and 11 internships organised for 194 vocational education graduates;
3 VET institutions developed and piloted business plans for income-generating activities;
14 training courses and workshops on income-generating activities were organised for pilot VET schools, for pilot schools, (including for school principals, accountants, teachers and schoolmasters) in cooperation with the KulturKontact Austria project team.