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Please, upload a piece of evidence of a grid activity, which proves you have treated it with utmost responsibility and shows you have paid maximum attention to detail. (https://l33n.eu/learning-environment/).

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Coach of a projectgroup: Entrepreneurship in Primary school

During the academic year 2015-2016 7 students created an Entrepreneurship club. They organised a training for youngsters (7-10 years old). During that those 3 days the children discoverd the different competences of an Entrepreneur.
guido About 7 years ago

I tackled the White Club with a genuine commitment to offer more than the generally "idealistic" action paths I even mention there!

Imagine you are Uffy and Muffy from planet Venus and are watching the Earth using binoculars.They ask each other the following questions:
  • Do you think everything is all right with Earth?
  • What do you think is wrong/great with Earth and why?
  • What would you change on Earth to make it a better place from your perspective?
Work in pairs and enact the roles of Uffy and Muffy. Based on this roleplaying, set a challenge for you and your friends, and one for Tom. Describe how the club can help you to do the challenge.

Our challenge:
Redo the Uffy and Muffy roleplay with everyone close to us. A different dialogue with each particular person. Then, with the help of the respective person, identify the easiest change to Earth you’ve talked about and convince them not only to try and be that change themselves, but to carry out the roleplay with someone else. Our challenge is to create this process of constant dialogue and to make as many people as possible become the easiest change they can be, so that a gateway is opened towards increasingly meaningful and large-scale change. The way our club can help is to keep us motivated. Sharing stories of success and changing perspectives during club sessions helps everyone stay on track and keep up the challenge, the club can make the whole thing enjoyable through a powerful feeling of community, as any club should.

Tom’s challenge:
Tom, as someone who we’ve just tried to talk into joining into our challenge, we challenge you not to think of us as idealists. Because when you think idealist, you think of something bad, you think of impractical, you don’t even look at our face because our head is too far up in the clouds. It’s okay Tom, this is just because the world we live in is all about pragmatism, as we say here in Romania, “Ce-i în mână nu-i minciună” (It’s not a lie if you can hold it in your hand). We’re not idealists in this sense here. We’re just revolting. Innovating. Challenging the way things work. If you think the change we want is a good one, ignore terminology and help us out. Start challenging the status quo by challenging what you’d think of such an idea at first. Good luck, Tom!
catagheorghiu About 7 years ago

I really took my time and put a lot of thought into solving the Green Lab, the risk taking exercise. Here's the whole thing to support this.

Risk exercise - Q&A
  1. Why is risk taking important? Simply put, everything we do comes with a risk: we risk being run over by a car when crossing the street, we risk to get wet if we get out of the house without an umbrella, and we risk missing out on something whenever choose to do something else. Risk is inseparable from our lives. At the same time, we all want to achieve as much as possible, yet nothing can be achieved without risk, not crossing the street, nor getting out of the house. So if taking risks and achieving are so closely related, taking risks is truly important simply because achieving, giving meaning to our lives is the most important thing of all.
  2. Why is risk taking important for entrepreneurs? For the same reason it’s important for everyone else: entrepreneurs too want to achieve as much as possible in their business, and as a result taking risks is a fundamental part of their activity and therefore extremely important.
  3. Why is risk taking important for students? Again, for the exact same reason: students want to learn as much as possible so they can have a career as fulfilling as possible later. Learning, of course, comes with its own risks: you risk feeling low if you go to a contest and underachieve and you risk not performing to your potential in one domain should you chose to focus on another. Then again, you’ll never get better unless you see your real level by going to a contest or unless you focus on one domain at a time, therefore risk taking is crucial in improving and therefore in the act of being a student.
  4. What is risk taking in the context of innovation? Every new idea risks not being accepted, we can call this an individual risk because it only really affects its proponent as they would have most likely had something to gain from the acceptance of their idea. However there’s a greater, collective risk at stake: what if the idea was actually good? What if it was just poorly phrased, or it was a good incipient step towards a greater achievement and people dismiss it because it sounds bad or seems too little? Everyone has but to lose from not accepting good innovation.
  5. What is your thought on entrepreneurs being risk-tolerators? Entrepreneurs are the people who risk all the time. Every investment is a risk, every employee hired, every new establishment. All they do is risky, but the fact that they keep at it nevertheless shows their tolerance towards risk, the fact that they’ve embraced it, therefore making them risk-tolerators. Considering all previous analysis, it’s a great feat for them to be able to tolerate risk on the way to success.
  6. How can we increase our risk-tolerance on a daily basis? By taking as many as possible. Getting used to them, being able to downplay greater and greater risk to prevent any form of deterrence from achievement. Maybe looking into how other people took risks and got away with it for inspiration. Maybe making some contingency plans in case our risks come to occur so that we feel safer taking them. Plenty of options!
  7. Where and how can risk-taking be learnt? Anywhere and in any way, as long as there’s someone there to point out the risk and make us aware that we’ve successfully overcome it. Your parents encouraging you to ride the montagne russe even though you’re scared and then talking to you about how fun it was helps you take similar risks in the future. Going to contests in school teaches us to be more assertive and confident in what we know. Your colleagues encouraging you to ask for a promotion or people close to you encouraging you to quit and look for a better job all teach you to take risks. As long as we nudge each other towards innovation and challenging the status quo, everyone can learn to take risks, anywhere and at any point in their lives.
  8. What are the barriers to risk taking? The fear of failure. The subsequent fear of how others will react to our failure, how we’re going to disappoint those close to us and how we’re going to be ridiculed by everyone else. The underlying social anxiety created by such a competitive environment as the world we live in acts as a deterrent to many from changing anything. Many people feel lucky to be where they are and are afraid of losing the current status and having to fight to get it back.
  9. What are the enablers? The conceptual enablers are the goals themselves. When the goal is appealing enough or, at any rate, the vector of our welfare stands to go upwards a lot more if we succeed than it would go downwards if we failed, we are at peace with taking the risks. But there are physical enablers too; all too often we don’t think it all the way through like that, but there are others who do, and it’s the duty of everyone that does to help out all those who don’t if we are going to stand for concepts such as community development. Our teachers, our friends, everyone trying to give us a push in the right direction is an enabler in of themselves.
  10. What is your reaction when you face a risky situation? I go for it, straight up. I’m confident enough in my ability to deal with any repercussions, I am therefore ready to take any risks should the goal be worth the effort. Of course, that doesn’t mean I don’t think it through beforehand; my ability to deal with repercussions is the direct result of prior analysis of possible outcomes, this way I’m a lot more comfortable throughout the whole process, and being at ease helps a lot even when dealing with something unforeseen, as stress and panic often lead to objectively worse decision than a calm approach.
catagheorghiu About 7 years ago