Free training for educators in VET entrepreneurship education about to be published!

Date: June 13, 2026

The C-ENTRE training programme is currently being finalised by the project partners. During the summer period, the full training package will be made freely available online.

The open-access release will include:

a complete theoretical framework for entrepreneurship education in VET
fully developed lesson plans and learning activities
practical tools and teaching resources
materials ready for immediate classroom implementation
availability in four languages (EN/NL/HU/PT)

Discover the content of the units here: (click for more information)

1 - Empowering

The training begins with a focus on empowerment, not as an academic concept, but as a practice embedded in the way educators listen, communicate, and relate to learners. By cultivating trust, promoting self-regulation, and facilitating constructive feedback, educators can build the conditions in which entrepreneurial thinking and personal growth can truly flourish.

2 - Mindset

Participants will learn that entrepreneurship is not just about business. This is a life competence. This unit uses experiential learning to help trainers embrace uncertainty and value creation as tools for student empowerment.

3 - Goal setting

The focus of this unit is to move from rigid planning to dynamic “validated learning,” where goals act as hypotheses to be tested through coaching, experimentation, and constant adaptation.

4 - Structuring

This unit focuses on the transformation of ideas into opportunities and opportunities into structured plans. Educators play a key role in helping students recognize the potential of their ideas, evaluate feasibility, and understand how value is created and delivered. By introducing foundational entrepreneurial tools and frameworks, educators can guide learners toward more strategic and realistic thinking without stifling their creativity.

5 - Experiencing

Focus on experiential learning, where trainees will move beyond theoretical exercises and take ownership of realistic entrepreneurial experiences. The goal is to help them understand what it means to act as an entrepreneur, face challenges, make decisions under uncertainty, and learn from outcomes (both successes and failures).

6 - Guiding students (formally: Coaching)

Helping trainers to understand the principles of learner-centered guidance, how to provide constructive feedback, and how to support peers in taking ownership of their own learning.

All materials will be accessible via the C-ENTRE results page: https://c-entre.eu/results/

The programme reflects a shared understanding across the partnership: entrepreneurship education is most effective when educators are equipped not only to teach entrepreneurial concepts, but also to guide learners in developing the mindset and competences needed to act entrepreneurially in practice.

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