So thrilled to report on another instalment of Dafen Primary School's Entrepreneurial Journey, UWTSD and EntreCompEdu's Whole School Global Pioneers. Dafen School children continue to grow their entrepreneurial skills with parent entrepreneur Nick Dunford, of Nix by Nature. Nick has been supporting children with their well-being and mindfulness skills in afterschool sessions, yet spotted an …
EntreCompEdu Social Media campaigns impress judges
Always a pleasure to update on the EntreCompEdu project, the day-to-day of which I miss dearly. This time, I celebrate its scoop of the 'Social EU Award 2021' for ‘Best Social Networking’. Awarded to the 3 best Erasmus + projects, the Social EU Awards evaluate project capacity to produce content, reach targets and engage a …
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Archived UWTSD comms EntreCompEdu School Pioneer Award for Dafen Primary
Pirates, People, Passion and Phenomenology
Last week was pure madness -a collision of key events - I did wonder if there was some chaotic planetary alignment at play. Amongst the usual routines in the week I had the pleasure of participating in another EntreCompEdu cafe, this time led by Paul Ranson, my fellow edu- pirate, and project advisor at the …
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EntreCompEdu Global Online Graduation
This is a post I have been very keen to share for a couple of weeks. May's online EntreCompEdu Global Graduation event.. Eat your heart out Eurovision – EntreCompEdu knows how to rock a wrap party! The EntreCompEdu Online Global Graduation was the culmination of so much fizz-popping energy, joy, and learning across a collective …
Supporting the 1st Global Cross-Faculty EntreCompEdu Pioneers
Excited to share another thoroughly rewarding adventure with the EntreCompEdu project, from the recent phase 2 with participants drawn from over 50 countries - one journey, representing UWTSD, with the multi-discipline faculty team at the International University of Malaya-Wales (IUMW). After three months of the phase 2 CPD, ten faculty members drawn from biotechnology, biology, …
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HES: sharing & celebrating entrepreneurial endeavours
As you know my philosophical, phenomenological, piracy, planet and people endeavours spread out from EmergentThinkers.com into The Harmonious Entrepreneurship Society (HES) and hanfod.NL amongst other online spaces. I am proud to draw attention today to a recent HES post sharing the work some inspirational ladies who drive key entrepreneurial and sustainability work from their Celtic …
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COVID-19 fails to halt CPD: Online celebration of Welsh entrepreneurial school
Image adapted: Guille Álvarez Following this blogspace, you’ll know I work on the Erasmus+ funded ‘EntreCompEdu’ project. It is with much delight I update with phase one celebratory news, specifically the culmination of Dafen School’s entrepreneurial CPD endeavours through lockdown. An online graduation. We didn’t start out with a pandemic context in mind, but what …
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Nexus+ 2020: The gift of connection
Adapted image by Clint Adair Fresh from the close of UWTSD's Nexus+ 2020 I’m just too stimulated to not commit a few ‘in the moment’ reflections to screen. It was an absolute privilege and joy to present with entrepreneur/pirate/pioneer Educator, Paul Ranson, to share work on entrepreneurial inspired online peer support and development on behalf …
Entrepreneurial spirit unleashed
In an update this week for 'EntreCompEdu', the multi-country project aimed at strengthening teacher competences for entrepreneurial learning, I reported on the magnificent commitment of our teachers and support staff to our learners and families through our global crises. "Covid-19 has hit education hard, pushing the ‘brick and mortar’ school into uncharted territory. Placing unprecedented …
EntreCompEdu supporting new national curriculum challenge
An enthusiastic and forward-thinking Carmarthenshire primary school (South Wales) has taken steps to increase its ‘entrepreneurial learning’ curriculum content through engagement in the ‘EntreCompEdu’ pilot, the Erasmus+ funded skills framework that aims to build educator creative and entrepreneurial mindsets. Identifying the value of entrepreneurship education, Dafen Primary School Head Teacher, Mrs Iolan Greville with full …
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‘EntreCompEdu’ embraced by teachers in Wales
Piloting of the Erasmus+ 'EntreCompEdu' is underway in Wales, with primary teachers and PGCE Post Compulsory Education Teachers in training, currently being immersed into the new CPD framework that envelopes EntreComp (the Entrepreneurship Competence Framework). EntreComp Today’s I report on the PGCE PCET engagement led by Mark Flagg, the UWTSD’s Programme Director PG Cert HE. …
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