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Labor@: Centers for entrepreneurial practice

Start: 31 Jul 2004 End: Status: ONGOING

 

   

 

 

"Labor@: Centres for entreprenerial practice" is an innovative initiative that develops the following skills and abilities in high-school aged adolescents:

 

·  Business management

 

· Generation and promotion of entrepreneurial skills

 

· Logical reasoning

 

· Analysis and interpretation of different type of information.

 

· Digital technologies, such as office productivity software, Internet and email.

 

 

In addition, Labor@ develops important competencies within the student participants, such as taking initiative, being proactive, developing creativity, working in teams and solving problems.

 

The Project’s different components have the goal of bringing the participating adolescents the tools needed for success in today’s modern labor market.

 

Labor@ modules encompas Enterprise management, Generation and promotion of entrepreneurship skills, ICT skills, logic and reason.

 

 

 

Students learn entrepreneurship through simulation and experimentation in digital learning situations and environments.

 

In the simulation activity students role play working in a firm and learning how to deal with different situations faced by the simulated firm. ICTs are used for simulation to represent a real-life situation. ICT tools are grouped into two categories: office tools which is used to develop skills in work flows within a firm and Online application (service centre) which is used to simulate actual interactions at any firm.

 

As a result of the programme students acquire technological fluency, acquire knowledge and experience associated to the realities of different careers and business. Students also understand how e-commerce works, how relationships between firms are forged and learn how to identify financing opportunities for new businesses.

   

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

Countries of implementation: Costa Rica    El Salvador    Guatemala    Honduras    Nicaragua   
Themes:
Education
Informal   
Poverty Reduction
~Other Cross-Cutting Themes
Project Partners: Fundacion Omar Dengo (FOD)    CR-USA Foundation for Cooperation    Ministry of Public Education of Costa Rica    Microsoft Corporation    SUN Microsystems    Instituto para Conectividad en las Américas    International Development Research Centre (IDRC)   
Project Team: Elena Carreras [send message]   
Uploaded by: Fundacion Omar Dengo (FOD) | Updated: eduardo.monge@fod.ac.cr @ 23 Mar 2009 03:22 | Viewed: 177 times

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