National entrepreneurship education cruise and pre-event

Photo Credit: YES Varsinais-Suomi
Anne
Gustafsson-Pesonen

The YES Network organized national entrepreneurship education cruise “In the core of entrepreneurship” and pre-event on 13th-14th November in Turku, Finland. The program of the pre-event was including expert presentations and visits to different learning environments in Turku area.

To the participants the cruise and pre-event offered an information about sustainable education and ideas how to utilize theme in one’s job. The event was for different degrees of educational organizations.

What is YES?
YES is a network of experts who support and train teachers in entrepreneurship education and serves as a developer of regional entrepreneurship education and school-business cooperation. YES develops entrepreneurship education, build school-business cooperation and offer regional services for the JA Programs. YES is a non-profit organization.

The goal of YES is that every young person in Finland receives entrepreneurship education regardless of educational level and municipality, and that every teacher has the capability to implement entrepreneurship education in their own work.