"FABLAB system" workshop for youth entrepreneurship
A guide for teachers
This guide suggests building a course around key elements such as:
- Real products – product development based on students' interests, skills and ideas.
- Real sales – products that are developed for and evaluated by external stakeholders, thereby building communication and interaction skills outside of the school setting.
- Resilience – Embracing and dealing with uncertainty, ambiguity and confusion as an essential entrepreneurial skill.
- Teamwork – Improves communication, group creativity, and enhances mutual learning, while reducing complexity and uncertainty.
- Informational and explanatory work - interaction with the outside world deeply embedded in the structure of the course.
The curriculum "FabLab System Workshop for Youth Entrepreneurship" follows a modular structure that is a flexible way to implement entrepreneurship education in a vocational education institution (VEI). This approach offers a variety of opportunities to develop a course by combining different modules.
The training course "FabLab System Workshop for Youth Entrepreneurship" also focuses on practice. A practical focus is achieved through a problem-based approach to learning, including hands-on mock-ups, experiential learning, real-life examples, situational problem solving, role-playing, simulation and interaction.
This manual was created within the framework of the project "Digital prototyping for professional education", which was implemented as part of the project "Economic support of Eastern Ukraine" (ERA) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It aims to increase the participation of uneducated youth in the Ukrainian economy by strengthening vocational education (VET) training, as well as increasing their employability and entrepreneurial skills by focusing on digital and IT competencies .
