IDEEC
Impact-driven entrepreneurship education for children.
The children and young teenagers of today face grand challenges: the climate crisis becomes more urgent every day, and social challenges like inequality are increasingly pressing. The project ‘Impact-Driven Entrepreneurship Education for Children’ (IDEEC) is focused on educating children to face the environmental and social challenges around them, by developing entrepreneurial skills which they can use as a ‘force for good’.
Join us and use this framework for including social entrepreneurship education competencies in the classroom has been developed. We are in testing phase- check out the 9 competencies, and three phases in the journey to changemaking. Educators and parents and learners, click below and give feedback.
Explore the IDEEC competency framework for future social changemakers:
Start exploring the nine different competencies and their three phases of Challenges Framing, Solutions experimenting and impact making for learners aged 9-12 and 12-16+
We have developed this process drawn from global best practice, and real teacher and education providers in an open-source competence framework and toolbox full of activities and related impact assessment, to help bring impact-driven entrepreneurship into your learning environment.
Introducing IDEEC
IDEEC (Impact Driven Entrepreneurial Education for Children) project provides a baseline and a set of practical building blocks for teachers to apply effective programmes that help children develop impact-driven entrepreneurship competences.
By showing the potential of such programs, educational and economic policy makers are equipped to build policies to support impact-driven entrepreneurship education.
The children and young teenagers of today face grand challenges: the climate crisis becomes more urgent every day, and social challenges like inequality are increasingly pressing. The project ‘Impact-Driven Entrepreneurship Education for Children’ (IDEEC) is focused on educating children to face the environmental and social challenges around them, by developing entrepreneurial skills which they can use as a ‘force for good’.
Who we are
The spark of the first idea for IDEEC was from Dr Maarten Hogenstijn from Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, and the team includes CISE, Future Anything, FAWAKA, InventoLab, Social Enterprise Academy and Impact Amsterdam as organisations working together for the common goal of making future impact-first entrepreneurship education a reality for schooling systems supporting learners aged 9 – 16 years old. This means supporting teachers who are already making change happen in their classrooms, and also education providers, schools, parents, policy makers and others who can help us with this mission. The framework for teaching and learning is now based on three phases and nine competencies, drawn fro established models like EntreComp, GreenComp, and social and emotional learning (known as Soft Skills), inner development goals and other helpful lenses to ensuring a comprehensive educational experience. We’ve collaborated with educators, enterprises, and stakeholders to refine our framework. We welcome your comments, your use of the framework and lessons in your educational context, and being part of iterating education for a better future.
Collaboration
Have you just heard of social entrepreneurship? You are welcome to IDEEC. Are you an experienced educator, a champion and already integrating some of the 9 competencies, and the three phases of social changemaking for your learners? We can learn from your expertise and skill. Policy maker? We need you too.
What is the common experience of all those who have become involved in IDEEC? One of creative collaboration, inspiration, and finding shared commitment to enriching the learning experiences of young people, to be the change we want to see in the world. If you deal with impact-driven entrepreneurship education, you get inspired by enthusiastic young people developing fantastic new ideas, as well as by motivating educators, who want to change the world. While all do so in their own context and from their own perspective, it is great to see a shared vision about a new role of entrepreneurship in the economy of the future.
Have you used the activities, the impact tools, the competencies? Contact us to link you to a network or partner in your area: Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Scotland, Australia and more. Join us.
Latest News
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Developing simple impact measurement tools for teaching social entrepreneurship
Thank you to all who participated in the IDEEC workshop and training in Extremadura Spain. We all need the future capabilities to face the unexpected challenges/opportunities. What a great combination of organizations working together to make a difference in entrepreneurship education for 9-15 year olds! Led by Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences Entrepreneurship professorship Maarten…
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IDEEC Toolkit Pilot Shines at European New Bauhaus Festival
Our Erasmus+ project, “Impact Driven Entrepreneurship for Children,” took center stage at the Festival of the European New Bauhaus. Specifically, our initiative was showcased at the satellite event hosted in Beira-Marvao, Portugal, on Saturday, April 13th, 2024. The event was themed around Youth Empowerment and Learning Ecosystems. You can find more details about the event…
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A toolkit structure emerges…
How do you structure a toolkit for educators who want to teach impact-driven entrepreneurship? This was one of the key questions during the IDEEC workshop, held on 16-20 October 2023 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The IDEEC project team gathered to discuss key principles for impact-driven entrepreneurship education, as well as the phases of a project,…
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