Sandra Schön presented the DOIT Europe projects within a Makerspaces expert meeting of the DG Education and Culture at the European Commission at 23/24 of May 2019
Early entrepreneurial skills development through social innovation in makerspace settings (Presentation at DG Education & Culture, EC)
1. This project has received funding from
the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 77006
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DOIT http://DOIT-Europe.net
H2020-770063
Early entrepreneurial skills development
through social innovation
in makerspace settings
Brussels, 2019-05-24
Dr. Sandra Schön, Salzburg Research
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3. DOIT – A European Initiative
DOIT develops, tests, evaluates and disseminate
• a new learning approach for early
entrepreneurial education with social
innovation in makerspace settings
(„DOIT programme“) and
• open licensed materials for young social
innovators from 6 to 16 and facilitators
(„DOIT toolbox“).
Duration: 10/2017-09/2020
Grant: EC Horizon 2020 Research &
Innovation Action 770063 (2,4 million)
Webpage: http://DOIT-Europe.net
6. SocialInnovation
Social innovation meets social
needs and solves burning
societal challenges.
Schön, Ebner & Hornung-Prähauser (2017) -
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/32
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7. Entrepreneurial
Education
Developing the skills and mind-
set, which allows people to turn
creative ideas into
entrepreneurial action.
European Commission’s Thematic Working
Group on Entrepreneurship Education
8. Objective of the DOIT programme
Support skills development for all steps in an innovation project
journey: identify the social need, create together, prototype and
sharing the idea of a new solution at young age.
9. DOIT programme:
7 steps for young social innovators in digital world
EXPLORE
Do it because
you can
SENSITISE
Do what
matters
WORKTOGETHER
Do it together
CREATE
Do it now
REFLECT
Do it better
SCALE-UP
Do more
of it
SHARE
Do inspire
others
11. DOIT‘s evaluation approach
We develop and evaluate
„DOIT actions“
A DOIT action addresses children from 6-16
years, builds upon the DOIT programme
and is at least 15 hours long
Diverse settings:
• Span of action from 2,5 days to 4 months
• 6-10, 11-16 years
• in schools, outside schools
• in fablabs and mobile makerspaces
• Diverse topics (UN SDG)
• urban/rural etc.
10 countries and 1.000 children
AT, BE, DE, DK, ES, FI, HR, NL, SI, SR
Skills of children
Self-efficacy, creativy, teamwork and others
12. Process and result example: A personal fan
Belgium pilot – in school – 10-11 years
The children created a solution for hot summers in classroom
13. Process and result example: The safe stage
Austria pilot –in school – 25 children – 5-10 years
The children decided to address accident prevention in their school
Social detective: The stage as problem! Idea sketch Prototype (already partly realised)
14. First experiences …. self-efficacy
Facilitators observed how proud
children were of what they were
able to do, when they presented
their prototypes during the final
event to the invited people.
Source: DOIT partner ZSI
22. Some more (future) DOIT results
Policy recommendation
and memorandum
Facilitator trainings
and open online course
(MOOC in 2020)
More than 100 success
stories of young social
innovators