Building the future of VET entrepreneurship education

We are excited to share a major milestone in the C-ENTRE project: the core training materials for VET educators are now developed and entering the final alignment and refinement phase.

Over the past months, our international partnership has worked intensively to design a comprehensive training programme that helps vocational educators move from traditional teaching towards coaching entrepreneurial learning. The result is a structured, practice-oriented programme that combines European expertise, real classroom experience, and evidence-based frameworks.

What is coming?

The C-ENTRE training programme is built around six interconnected units that guide educators through a gradual transformation:

• Empowering

How can teachers create psychologically safe classrooms where students dare to experiment, share ideas, and learn from failure? This unit focuses on trust-building, structured feedback, and emotional safety as the foundation of entrepreneurship education.

• Entrepreneurial mindset

Entrepreneurship starts with mindset. Educators explore how to foster growth mindset, opportunity recognition, and resilience, moving beyond technical instruction towards value creation thinking.

• Goal setting

From vague ambitions to actionable steps. This unit introduces agile and effectual goal-setting approaches that help students turn big ideas into realistic, short-term milestones.

• Structuring

Great ideas need structure. Using tools such as the Business Model Canvas and Lean Canvas, educators learn how to guide students in building viable and sustainable business models.

• Experiencing entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship must be lived, not only explained. Through student companies, simulations, and hands-on challenges, this unit demonstrates how experiential learning can bring entrepreneurial competences to life.

• Coaching

At the heart of C-ENTRE is the shift from lecturing to coaching. Educators develop questioning techniques, reflection tools, and feedback strategies that gradually transfer responsibility to learners.

More than a training course

What makes C-ENTRE unique is that it does not only provide theory. The programme includes:

• Real case studies from VET institutions across Europe
• Practical classroom tools and structured exercises
• Reflection methods embedded in experiential learning

Educators do not simply learn about entrepreneurship education, they experience the methods themselves.

Where we are now

Currently, the partnership is finalising the harmonisation of training materials across languages and contexts. This ensures that the programme reflects diverse European perspectives while maintaining a consistent pedagogical approach.

The next phase will focus on piloting the training with educators and collecting feedback to further refine the content.

We look forward to sharing more updates soon, including insights from the pilot phase and practical examples from participating VET institutions.

C-ENTRE is not only about supporting educators. It is about strengthening the quality and relevance of entrepreneurship education across Europe’s VET sector and equipping learners with the confidence, adaptability, and entrepreneurial competences needed in today’s dynamic world.

Stay tuned for more updates.