1. AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS D. SANCHO I – VILA NOVA DE FAMALICÃO - PORTUGAL
SANCHO ENTREPRENEUR
AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS D. SANCHO I – VILA NOVA DE FAMALICÃO - PORTUGAL

2. INTRODUCTION
Agrupamento de Escolas D. Sancho I integrates General Courses as well as Vocational Courses. The latter cover basic subjects, as well as a vast amount of practical hours.
Vocational courses already represent almost 50% of the school offer.
As a result, the school is seen as a provider of skilled manpower acting also as an intermediary between applicants and the business sector.
It establishes a connection with potential employers by means of an updated database of candidates and demand, which aim at making the recruitment process easier.
In close cooperation with the Job Centre, the school also provides young people and adults support in the definition or development of their career routes or reintegration in the labour market.
The school hopes to make the employment process mainly the result of a direct request on the part of companies towards the school.
In turn, the business community offer school leavers from vocational courses job training and internships and, at times, coaching sessions on entrepreneurial skills.

3. What is SANCHO ENTREPRENEUR?
It is a school cabinet, coordinated by a Delegate for Entrepreneurship, which promotes the participation of the students in a set of activities within the entrepreneurial scope promoted by different entities:
Municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão
CITEVE
Universities
Ilídio Pinho Foundation
Others

4. Objectives: Creating an entrepreneurial culture
Promoting an entrepreneurial spirit
Making young people aware of and motivated to entrepreneurial practices
Developing entrepreneurial competences

5. Activities already developed or being developed by the cabinet
Chef IN.AVE / MADE IN
Contest of Ideas
Mini internships
My project is entrepreneurial
Project “Science at School”, promoted by the Ilídio Pinho Foundation
Program Business at School
Project CLDS and Social Entrepreneurial Program (Adrave)
Others…

6. Contest ‘Chef MADE IN’ Promoter: Target group: Date and procedures:
- Network Famalicão Entrepreneur
Target group:
Students from local catering courses selected by a team of teachers and school technicians through means of a selection interview.
Date and procedures:
- Date: May 2017
- Areas: barman / waiter(ess)
chef / baker
- 2 students from each area of expertise are selected for the final open proof where the winner will be chosen
Jury: local personalities recognised nationally and/or internationally in the catering area

7. Contest of Ideas Aim: Promoter: Target group:
- Network Famalicão Entrepreneur
Target group:
- Teams with a maximum of 3 students from local classes which belong to the project ‘Entrepreneurial Schools MADE IN’. The ten best ideas will be selected.
Nature of the work to be presented:
- Relevant original and economically viable business ideas in any area of activity
- Date: 5-9 June 2017
- Jury: representatives of various entities/organizations which may contribute to the future development of the projects at contest
Aim:
Rising young people’s awareness and motivation towards entrepreneurship practices, promoting initiative dynamics in the municipality and contributing to the development of the region by making use of feasible business ideas.

8. Contest of Ideas
Last year’s final of the third edition of IN AVE Entrepreneur Schools Contest was won by three female students from Agrupamento de Escolas D. Sancho I.
Results:
Visiting the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Barcelona, Spain
Participation in the event ‘Barcelona Loves Entrepreneurs – After BLE’
Participation in sessions of networking after work
Exhibition of the project to a group of entrepreneurs and other entities
Visiting the incubator Depot Lab Barcelona and Autoocupació, the Fab Lab Barcelona.

9. Mini Internships Promoter: Network Famalicão Entrepreneur
AIMS:
Making students aware of the specificities of labour contexts
Promoting autonomy and responsibility
Exploring professional profiles and an entrepreneurial attitude
Mini Internships
Promoter:
Network Famalicão Entrepreneur
Target group:
- Six students from local schools from years 8 and 10 selected after an interview
Duration and procedures:
- Two days
- Students state preferences regarding the local companies they would like to train in
- Students participate in a workshop to acquire competences for a successful integration during the mini-training period

10. Contest: ‘My Project is Entrepreneurial’
Promoter:
Network Famalicão Entrepreneur
Target group:
Senior vocational students from local schools. Each local school selects the most entrepreneurial professional
aptitude tests
Periodicity and procedures:
- Every year, in October
- Presentation of applications to a qualified jury including a local entrepreneur, representatives of local training associations, the Job Centre and a technological centre.

11. Aims:
Giving students entrepreneurial skills to face the new labour reality
Developing pedagogical strategies that will allow new attitudes and behaviour oriented towards the resolution of specific labour challenges
Developing the ability of understanding opportunities
Teaching students how to create their own business responsibly, by taking calculated risks
Creating an entrepreneurial culture, promoting lifelong creativity, innovation and aiming at self-fulfillment

12. Program Business at School
Promoter: Municipality
Aims:
Transferring good practices and knowledge from the business world to schools.
Promoting initiatives connecting schools to the local economic network
How?
By applying programs at schools which intend to create a culture of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurial development.
Areas:
Management consulting, entrepreneurship and citizenship, vocational and personal development.

13. Project CLDS (Local Contracts of Social Development) and Program of Social Entrepreneurship
Promoter: Municipality
Local Coordinator: ADRAVE (Regional Development Agency of the Ave Valley)
Aims:
Promoting the social inclusion of citizens through actions which will allow an increase in employability.
Fighting critical conditions of poverty, especially childhood poverty, and social exclusion in vulnerable areas.

14. Awards
Honorable Mention at the Contest ‘My Project is Entrepreneurial’ 2014/2015
“Project AS_BP”

15. Awards
3rd Place in the Contest ‘My Project is Entrepreneurial’ 2015/2016
“For a Cultural Future”

16. Awards
1st Place in the Final of the Inter Municipality Contest of Ideas promoted by IN.AVE (2015/2016)
“Project L2S”