May 31, 2022, The initiative “Entrepreneurial Thinking and Acting at Vocational Schools in Switzerland” wins 2nd prize in the ENTERPRIZE 2022 competition.
Entrepreneurial skills are future skills. The initiative “Entrepreneurial Thinking and Acting at Vocational Schools in Switzerland” (ETA) is committed to systematically anchoring entrepreneurial skills in vocational education. The initiative convinced the expert jury at ENTERPRIZE and won second place. The ENTERPRIZE awards projects and personalities whose work represents an outstanding example of entrepreneurship in vocational education and training.
“We see today’s award of the ENTERPRIZE 2022 as confirmation of our vision of systematically anchoring entrepreneurial thinking and acting in vocational education and training so that the approximately 70,000 young people who complete basic vocational training each year can acquire entrepreneurial skills,” says Georg Berger, who as overall project manager and president of the Swiss Conference of Vocational School Directors SDK-CSD played a key role in driving forward and co-initiating the project.
The project team is also convinced that the ETA initiative will have far-reaching effects on the educational landscape. National Councillor Andri Silberschmidt says, “Entrepreneurship should become a mandatory part of education. While universities are already actively and successfully promoting business start-ups by their students (so-called “spin-offs”), compulsory and post-compulsory education still has some catching up to do. More needs to be learned about the connections between entrepreneurial activity, income, expenses, resulting tax payments and entrepreneurial responsibility. It’s time to promote entrepreneurship in our country more again, because everyone benefits directly from it.”