EcoStartup®- Entrepreneurial thinking and acting, following the example of founding a company

EcoStartup^® is a computer-based business simulation that can also be used in sections in standard school classes. Taking a simple company founding as an example, EcoStartup communicates basic business knowledge and encourages interest in business enterprise. In EcoStartup^®, a small company is founded, based on a business plan the students have worked out themselves. After founding, the company is managed for three to five financial years.

EcoStartup^®

• communicates basic insights into the functioning and other aspects of a small company
• communicates basic principles of business
• challenges the participants to turn a business idea into an actual business plan and actively design the start-up phase of the company
• makes the participants aware of the challenges of founding a company
• arouses interest in entrepreneurial ideas

Areas of use 

• Higher secondary school level (Sekundarstufe II) , (adult education colleges, vocational schools (Maturitätsschulen, Berufsschulen)), lower secondary school level (Sekundarstufe I)
• Universities of Applied Science (Fachhochschulen), universities
• Adult education

Duration of game

2-3 days, as a project week or in sections in class for about 8 double lessons

Game facilitation

The game facilitators are the teachers or lecturers of the educational institution making use of EcoStartup^®. The Foundation will train them in a two-day course to become game facilitators.

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