NRP Portugal

At a local level, the sustainable development of the project was achievedthroughtheinvolvementofpartnerswhoactivelyparticipateinallstagesoftheproject,forexample,thetechniciansoftheRegionalDirectorateforEducation,ParentAssociations,CentralBusiness(CB)andBusinessInnovationCentre(BIC).ThisprogrammewasinitiallydevelopedasapilotversionbetweenSeptember2006andSeptember2007,involving23pilotschools,143projectscompletedand involving 1,681 students (from basic to secondary Schooling) and 119teachers,involvingatthisstage99schools.FromAugust2007itwasextendedtoallschoolsoftheContinent.• ENE Project – Enterprise at School – in the scope of the EQUAL initiative,developed between June 2002 and October 2004 by BIC Algarve – Huelva, inpartnership with local/ regional authorities, amongst which the AlgarveRegionalDirectorateofEducation.In2006,theprojectwasspreadtothewholeoftheContinentalPortugalanditis currently in the appropriation stage in several schools. The aim of thisinitiative was to provide a complementary response to the curricularprogrammes of secondary schooling, especially favouring the activeparticipationofstudentsandtheiraccountabilityindesigningtheirownpaths.The ENE, for students aged between 15 and 19 years, the majority of whomattending technological courses at secondary school, was applied in tensecondaryschoolsintheAlgarveasanonformallearningprogramme,workingwith subjects such as “Business Organisation Techniques” and “administrativeWorks” or, transversally, in the “Project Area” with an average duration of 3hoursweekly.It is basically a learning programme set around the preparation of a BusinessPlanduringoneschoolyear,assistedbydidacticmaterialsandbyadiversifiedrange of activities which include, amongst others, teacher training, visitingcompanies, competition of ideas, pitching of business ideas, companyinternshipsandtransnationalcooperation.•Programme Think Industry, which was considered to be a good practiceregardingyoungpeople’sawarenesstoindustrial‐basedactivities.Within a framework of a greater scope and transversality, the efforts in promotingentrepreneurshipinPortugalalsoincludethestrategicstimulationofthecreationofnew business ideas and the emergence of new managers with a new vision ofbusiness which enable their future sustainability. Emphasis goes to the followinginitiatives:• Programme enterprise +, which integrated a set of actions based on thefollowingobjectivesandresults:1. Inductionofattitudesandbehavioursleadingtothedevelopmentofaninnovative,technologicalandenterprisingculture‐cycleof30seminars,of a regional and thematic nature, in partnership with universities,polytechnicsandotherknowledgecentres);2. Development of competencies for entrepreneurship, through thecreation of an “entrepreneurship lab”, stimulation of the “packet ofideas and means” and by the implementation of a programme of33