South East European Centre South East European Centre for Entrepreneurial Learningfor Entrepreneurial LearningSouth East European Centre South East European Centre for Entrepreneurial Learningfor Entrepreneurial Learning

Bruxelles, BelgiumBruxelles, Belgium

31 March 201131 March 2011

First institutional development from the Charter/SBA process

Directly supported by the European Commission through the IPA multibeneficiary programme

Croatia offered to lead the process with full support of all countries included in the process;

SEECELSEECELSEECELSEECEL

July 2009 - SEECEL founded as an independent institution with an international Steering Committee and its headquarter in ZagrebOne of the first examples of regional cooperation directly led and

operated from countries themselves with full EU supportActive participation of all eight countries from the inception phase

Co-founders:The Republic of Croatia Ministry of Economy, Labour and

EntrepreneurshipCroatian Chamber of Economy;

December 2009 – Contract signed with the European Commission for a three year period

Financing – 2 millions €European Commission and Croatian national budget – MoELE

Close cooperation with: EC, RCC, ETF, OECD Implementation ongoing

SEECEL Member StatesSEECEL Member StatesSEECEL Member StatesSEECEL Member States• Albania, • Bosnia and Herzegovina, • Montenegro, • Croatia, • Kosovo, • Macedonia, • Serbia, • Turkey.Significant interest shown in expanding the scope of SEECEL

activitiesFirst case of successful diminishment of the risk of complex

geopolitical relations in the region

SEECELSEECEL 20092009 - 2012- 2012SEECELSEECEL 20092009 - 2012- 2012

Community of experts – 90Community of experts – 90 (SEE and EU countries + (SEE and EU countries +

EuroMeda) EuroMeda) CoP platformCoP platform

Primary Education – ISCED 2Primary Education – ISCED 2Primary Education – ISCED 2Primary Education – ISCED 2• Learning Outcomes• Teacher Training and School Management Training• Entrepreneurial School and EL School network

• Main points:• General concepts with definition• Relation with EQF, NQF and Curiculum• Definition of main areas • Strategic piloting in eight countries, 4 insitutions per

country

Higher Higher EducationEducation – ISCED 5/6 – ISCED 5/6Higher Higher EducationEducation – ISCED 5/6 – ISCED 5/6• Learning Outcomes• Entrepreneurial University and EL University network

• Main points:• Non-economic studies• General concepts with definition• Relation with EQF, NQF, Curiculum• Defining main areas • Strategic piloting in eight countries, 2 insitutions per

country

TrainingTraining Need Analysis - TNA Need Analysis - TNATrainingTraining Need Analysis - TNA Need Analysis - TNA• TNA methodology report and sampling

proposal• Regional TNA Questionnaire• Piloting: 1 business association/country

• Establish Development and Advisory Network for Enterprise Training (DANET)• Strategic piloting in eight countries, 1 insitution per

country

... and more... and more... and more... and morePresented twice in the European Parliament as the

best practice exampleMemorandum of Understanding with Regional

Cooperation Council in finalisation phaseInvited by RCC to participate as one of the

implementing parties in the regional project related to strengthening female entrepreneurship - finalising the preparation of “Women Entrepreneurship – a job creation engine for South East Europe” which will be implemented in 9 countries:

SEECEL member states + Moldova

SEECEL is a member of OECD project’s “Regional competitivenes initiative” Steering Committee

Member of expert team led by European Commission for SBA 2011 policy assessment process for SEE

SEECEL is listed in a draft of Danube Strategy Action Plan (to be approved in June 2011)

SEECEL is listed in the Western Balkans Investment Framework (December 2010) – application for a grant for technical documentation

Invited by Serbian Parliament to present its activities (December 2010)

Invited by the European Commission to participate in the high level symposium European process 2011 in the field of preparing education systems for entrepreneurial learning (Budapest, April 2011)

Since the Union has set five ambitious objectives – on employment, innovation, education, social inclusion and climate/energy - to be reached by 2020, SEECEL is definitely the regional initiative which by implementation of its activities such as fostering the entrepreneurial learning and developing the entrepreneurial mindset introduced to specific levels of education (ISCED 2 and 5/6), as well as assisting the existing businesses to target the training needs in the South East European region, is contributing significantly not only to reaching one of the listed objectives of the Europe 2020, but to reaching them all in order to ensure the sustainable development and economic growth.

Relevance to Europe 2020 objectives of Relevance to Europe 2020 objectives of smart, sustainable, inclusive growthsmart, sustainable, inclusive growth

Sandra Rončević, Assistant Directorsandra.roncevic@seecel.hrSelska cesta 217, HR-10 000 Zagreb, CroatiaTel:+385/(0)1/3040260