1. IMKB Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School – Turkey Erasmus+ Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

2. Project Title: Models of Entrepreneurship and volunteering
The main goal of the project: Developing entrepreneurship skills of pupils through interaction with other vocational school pupils.

3. Main objective of the the project: Exchanges of Practices.
Developing soft skills
Raising self-awareness/ empathy
Volunteering
Developing vocational English skills

4. Project Input for Pupils:
In this project, pupils have had a range of social activities such as visiting tourist attractions, museums, and some entrepreneurship activities, like visiting factories (furniture, jam, wine, pastry and so on), which was a great asset to our pupils.

5. Pupils’ Output in the Project:
Our pupils reported that joining this project has widened their attitude towards different cultures, they have gained professional experience, significant life skills. They have also got more confidience in themselves by having been to abroad, which will be highly profitable for their career.

6. 1- Summary of the Questionnaire
We asked 10 pupils (5 males, 5 females) 10 general questions about the project partners. In this part of the questionnaire, we intented to find out whether the pupils’ general knowledge on the culture, geographical features, sports, food, tourist attractions and etc. of the project partners has undergone a change.

7. General Questions
3 of our male pupils responded to this question, however, none of the females gave an answer.

8. General Questions:

9. General Questions:
All the pupils responded to this question.

10. General Questions:

11. General Questions:

12. Findings
It seems that the pupils already knew a lot about the Greek culture, however gathered new information about the culture and social aspects of the other project countries, which broadened their knowledge, understanding and attitude.

13. 2- Summary of the Questionnaire
We asked the same pupils (5 males, 5 females) 11 questions on the goals of the project. In this part of the questionnaire, our aim was to evaluate whether our pupils have gained any awareness of entrepreneurship.

14. Models of Entrepreneurship and Volunteering
1- What ideas do you associate with the word entrepreneurship?
Self-awareness
Developing soft skills and vocational English skills
Erasmus
Passion for success

15. Models of Entrepreneurship and Volunteering
2- How can young people show their creative sides? Our pupils said that the first person they would turn to is their teachers about their creative sides. Except than that, they can start up their own businesses online and advertise online so that they would not spend so much money, however have the opportunity to bring out their creative sides as well as their products.

16. Models of Entrepreneurship and Volunteering
3- What kind of volunteer jobs can a student do? Working at hospitals, care homes and also at animal shelters to help and give care to the ones in need.

17. Models of Entrepreneurship and Volunteering
4- Which areas will you be able to find employment in when you finish school?
- In computer-assisted engineering
Accounting
Banking
Counselling and secretary jobs in law courts

18. Models of Entrepreneurship and Volunteering
5- What is needed to start a business of your own?
Willing to take risks, self-confidence, money, passion, business skills such as marketing, good customer relations, leadership, time management, problem solving.

19. Models of Entrepreneurship and Volunteering
6- Do you have practice work in your school? Where? Our school has got a small law court where our pupils practise their work, however they have no chance to practise other school subjects.

20. Models of Entrepreneurship and Volunteering
7- Do you give your pocket money for charity activities? How much? 3 of our pupils said that they sometimes put 1 Turkish Lira into the piggy banks of charities.

21. Models of Entrepreneurship and Volunteering
8- Which foreign languages do you learn? When did you start learning languages? All our pupils start learning English in the primary school and beside English they learn German or French as a second foreign language.

22. Models of Entrepreneurship and Volunteering
9- Do you think that becoming a volunteer is a way to overcome cultural barriers? Most definetely, since volunteering has surprising benefits. One of them is breaking down stereotypes.

23. Models of Entrepreneurship and Volunteering
10- Why do people become a volunteer? - It connects one to the others - Helping the ones in need reduce stress and has got happiness effect - In addition to these all, volunteering helps advance career

24. Models of Entrepreneurship and Volunteering
11- Do you want to have an entrepreneurship lessons at your school? All our pupils wish to have entrepreneurship lessons.

25. Findings
As we see in the responses, our pupils have gained self-confidence and overseas experience which gave them the idea and courage to study and work abroad.

26. Thanks for listening.