Comenius Project:
Entrepreneurship Education in Europe
2nd Project meeting in Odense, Denmark, 4/5 – 10/5 2011
How to become an Entrepreneur – step by step
The topic of the first meeting in Vienna in October 2010 was to 'train your skills'.
The focus in the second meeting in Odense was 'Pooling of ideas – developing business ideas'.
Wednesday 4/5 2011
We started out in Copenhagen at May the 4th as a first introduction to Denmark. That included even a meeting with Crown Princess Mary.
Thursday 5/5 2011
Thursday we went on to Odense. In the evening there was the first meeting of all the students and the official welcome dinner.
Friday 6/5 2011
Friday (May the 6th) we all met at Tietgen Business College. The Danish students gave our guests a short guided tour of the School to give them an impression of the ‘school – life’ in Odense.
At the first meeting in Vienna the students got some tasks to prepare for the meeting in Odense – in short:
- Framework and support options for Young Entrepreneurs in their town / region:
- bureaucracy
- support by private and public organizations
- proportion of the new foundation in relation to the economic overall volume of the enterprises
- provision of new jobs by business start-ups
- Research (e.g. interviews) and develop two case-studies:
- Case study 1: Foundation of a business out of unemployment (1 person foundation)
- Case study 2: Foundation of a business that was/is/will be supposed to create about 10 jobs
Each school made a presentation of their research – put together it looks like this:
Items |
Austria |
Germany |
Denmark |
Bureaucracy |
General information:
Types of trade
Official channels:
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The tax office: Chamber of Commerce and Industry & Chamber of Commerce: The Federal Employment Agency: requires a company registration number Registration at the trade office, the trade association and the commercial register.
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The government focuses a lot on making the creation of a business so smooth and easy as possible. To form a company weather it is one-man or bigger you go to the tax office homepage, print out a form, fill it out and send it. The process takes about a week, and then you are registered.
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Support by private and public organizations |
Chamber of Commerce: AWS: Austrian Economic Service:
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Websites: Contact points:
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In order to ease the process growth houses, funded by the government is available for all who aspire to start a business. If it is to discuss an idea, or help with fundraising, networking, daily functions.
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Proportion of the new foundation |
New foundation 2010: |
19% including overtaking and renaming a company |
New foundations in 2010: 19.116 |
Provision of new jobs by business start-ups |
New workposts : |
446.000 jobs in 2009 |
Total: |
Case study 1 |
The Box |
Q-tech |
Hetolo |
Case study 2 |
Qidenus Technolgy |
Webutex |
A.M.A. Solution |
In the evening there was a school party for all the students at Tietgen Handelsgymnasium – and the foreign students was invited to participate so they could see how this was organized in a Danish high school.
Saturday 7/5 2011
Saturday morning the students were divided into smaller groups. They were guided through the city and had to carry out some tasks underway – the aim was to learn more of the city’s history and background.
After a lunch there was time for cultural visits to different museums – or to some shopping.
Sunday 8/5 2011
Very early on Sunday we left by bus to visit the small island of Ærø. After the trip with the fer-ry from Rudkøbeing to Marstal we had a guided tour through Marstal before we went on to Ærøskøbing. The director of the office for development on Ærø gave us a lecture on how a small island in the outskirts of Denmark can survive, especially when the fact is that many young people are leaving the island. The main message was to be innovative! For instance there were event agencies arranging marriages first of all for German couples, because the bureaucracy for a marriage in Denmark is quite different from that in Germany. After that we took the ferry back to Svendborg and had a walk around the harbor.
Monday 9/5 2011
On Monday the students had a lecture on the Danish model for giving young people the opportunities to develop and train their innovative skills: Young Enterprise. In fact it is not only Danish – it is used in many European countries as well. The Danish students presented the firms they had started as a part of a competition among Danish schools.
After that the students were divided into smaller groups. By using different techniques they were trained in idea generation and innovation. Each group had to develop a new innovative idea, and to present it for all the other groups.
Finally the tasks for the next meeting in Cham in October 2011 were discussed, and we decided the following:
Tuesday 10/5 2011
Time for saying good bye and travelling back home again. The tasks for the next meeting in Cham in October are ready – and we are all looking forward to meet each other again.
Participants:
| Cham | Odense | Wien | |
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| Students | Regina Griesbeck Timo Copp Carina Erhard Lisa-Marie Gruendl Katharina Anoschko Michael Kaesbauer |
Class 205 | Anel Alagic Arwin Azadi Ibrahim Cambaz Saudin Kurbegovic Mario Stokic Samra Levic Magy Mansour Opeyemi Akinrinlola Jasmina Krdjalic |
| Teachers | Bettina Mühlbauer Martin Stauber Gerhard Höcht Hans Pfeilschifter |
Jørgen Stengade Rune Petterson Klaus Hansen Gert Kjærsgaard |
Doris Wieshaider Susanna Weiss Gerlinde Hipfl Barbara Gasselich |
