START+UP

WELCOME TO THE EUROPEAN PROJECT 'START UP'

HOPE YOU ENJOY IT WHILE LEARNING NEW SKILLS, COLLABORATING WITH OTHER EUROPEAN STUDENTS AND PRACTISING THE USE OF ENGLISH.

FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE DOC. BELOW - STUDY AND USE ALL THE UPLOADED MATERIAL ALONG WITH MATERIAL GIVEN THROUGH THE SITE 'START UP'







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Entering the Competition
=What is the STARTUP_EU Project? = ==STARTUP_EU - Be a high Tech Entrepreneur @http://startup-eu.net/ is an EU project for schools, to replicate the excitement and creative, innovation of a new startup company. The project will create an educational game to develop entrepreneurial skills. ==

STARTUP_EU has created:

 * == A game to teach students how to start a business ==
 * == A competition to judge the results with prizes ==

Why StartUp?
==StartUp has created an educational game to develop entrepreneurial skills on a Web2.0 technology platform. Secondary school students will learn about entrepreneurship through inspiring and thought-provoking videos, online tasks covering business and marketing plans, and presentation skills. ==

About the Game and Competition
==Your school can take part in the game and competition that starts on 30 September 2013 although teachers will be able start their groups later than this provided they still meet the end date. ==

The Game
==The students are set a series of tasks that they have to complete that replicate the process of arriving at an idea for a business, but more importantly building a business plan for taking an idea to the reality of a real product. ==

==In each task there are instructions, videos and support materials. Each task leads to final documents or reports (supported with templates) that the students have to complete.At the end of the process each team of students has to complete an, ‘Elevator pitch’ (summary of their ideas and findings) that they will submit to a professional judging team recruited from entrepreneurial business. ==

**The project will include 3 phases : **
 * 1) Development of educational game
 * 2) <span style="background-color: #fdfcba; color: #0021ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: justify;">Development of platform and re-usable resources
 * 3) <span style="background-color: #fdfcba; color: #0021ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: justify;">The competition that will require collaborating teams to develop their idea into a clear business plan, based on what they have learnt. It is important to understand that the process of building a business and confronting the problems and finding solutions, will be at the heart of this stage of the process.

<span style="background-color: #fdfcba; color: #0021ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: justify;">The **final results** will be evaluated by a panel of experienced entrepreneurs and winners announced. **Prizes** will be awarded at a final conference that will include a workshop for educators to understand how the project can be reproduced. An **Internet Webinar** will enable large numbers of participating schools and educators to attend. <span style="background-color: #fdfcba; color: #0021ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: justify;">For students the outcomes are on multiple levels and include an insight into the world of start-ups and ICT, through replicating the collaborative processes required to develop an idea into a company a real taste of entrepreneurship will be gained. <span style="background-color: #fdfcba; color: #0021ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: justify;">StartUp_EU is orientated towards producing replicable results so that many more students and schools will be able to play the online game and learn how to be high-tech entrepreneurs! <span style="background-color: #fdfcba; color: #0021ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: #fdfcba; color: #0021ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: #fdfcba; color: #0021ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: justify;"> []