CONTEXTAccording to some of the EU publications and reports (EU Skills Panorama 2014, EURYDICE 2012 study “Developing Key Competences at School in Europe”, amongst others) show that Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are not providing the required skills demanded by the labour market. Specifically, the CRAYON’s project focuses on improving the acquisition of entrepreneurship, creativity, social responsibility, analytical, problem-solving skills and other transversal skills.OBJECTIVESCRAYON's project aimed at motivating HEI students and recent graduates, and to stimulate their social entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation and transversal skills.Besides, the objectives achieved include the development of the Intellectual Outputs, piloting a strategic partnership between HEIs, Business Incubators, Entrepreneur centres and business and to create a community of interested users.PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONSIn the CRAYON’s project 6 organisations from 5 countries have participated (4 EU countries and 1 EU candidate). The organisations are from different backgrounds:-2 HEIs (FLORIDA – ES and UTH – EL)-SME consultancy (IBOXC – ES)-Non-profit organisation (PRIME – NL)-National Innovation Training Centre (NCDIEL – MK)-Business Incubator (CICIA – RO)This has enriched the project development, as all of them are part of the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem and all of them have different perspectives and contributions to make in this field.DESCRIPTION OF MAIN ACTIVITIESAll Intellectual Outputs (IOs) developed can be accessed from here: http://crayonsproject.eu/en/deliverables/ 1. INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGY. Including Motivation 3.0, Creativity, Gamification, LEGO® Serious Play® and Business Model YOU. It is designed to create, develop and evaluate an entrepreneur idea.2. TRAINING COURSE developed, integrating the CRAYON’s methodology developed, as well as Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Social Responsibility.3. MOOC developed. It guides students to generate business ideas and develop and implement these, especially focusing in the form of social companies. The MOOC is published and freely available at the UTH’ e-learning platform: http://eclass.uth.gr/eclass/.4. TRAINING VIDEOS to guide on-line students in the learning process. They have been used for the CRAYON’s MOOC5. Organisation and testing of the IOs developed in an INTENSIVE STUDY PROGRAMME in Romania and at national level6. Mentoring of ideas generated by students and support during the project7. Other activities: dissemination events, Project Management, Quality Assurance, Evaluation, Exploitation and Sustainability of CRAYON’s outcomesRESULTS AND IMPACTThrough the Multiplier Events and dissemination activities organised, CRAYON’s project has reached over 2500 persons from different contexts: students, entrepreneurs, teachers, trainers, HEI lecturers, managers (Human Resources, Innovation departments, etc.), staff from different type of organisations, etc. There is detailed information on dissemination activities available here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-qcLZOSKO-UTm9DdzN3Sjh6U0U (multiplier events are in a separate folder).Also, we have reached around 9500 persons over social networks and project website (8200 persons in Facebook, 300 persons in Twitter and almost 1050 users in the website).Relevance of CRAYON’s project is the qualitative impact reached. According to the information gathered from questionnaires and feedback received afterwards, the project has achieved relevant changes in some organisations, especially HEIs:-Over 20 teachers and lecturers have used CRAYON’s methodology in their lectures to work entrepreneurship skills (teamwork, creativity, innovation, etc.) and team building-Primary, Secondary Education and VET Centres have contacted us to use CRAYON’s methodology to work soft skills (empathy, communication, teamwork, flexibility and other interpersonal skills) within their classes.-We have been requested assistance to guide organisations in their internal change process. The methodology has proven to be a very powerful tool to identify needs and problems within an organisation, to think of new solutions (avoiding biases), and organise the change process. Also companies find CRAYON’s methodology useful to develop, transform and regenerate processes or services within the organisation. Besides, they have used it to enhance the teamwork and group cohesionLONG-TERM BENEFITS-Partners have a Skype meeting scheduled in November 2017 to discuss about the preparation of a training course for European teachers, trainers and lecturers to exploit CRAYON’s results (methodology, training course and MOOC)-CRAYON’s methodology has been integrated in Compulsory Secondary Education, VET and Higher Education levels, more specifically in the following University degrees: Primary Education Teaching, Early Education Teaching, and Entrepreneurship subjects within other education qualifications provided

Entrepreneurship education does not only mean preparing students to become entrepreneurs. As a key competence for lifelong learning, entrepreneurship education (EE) should prepare students to face real life challenges once they finish formal education. Possession of key competences ensures more flexibility in the labour force, allowing it to adapt more quickly to constant changes in an increasingly interconnected world. Hence, “Entrepreneurship” is recognised as a key transversal skill that ENHANCES EMPLOYABILITY and contributes to the EUROPE 2020 OBJECTIVE OF SMART GROWTH (obtain a 75% employment rate for people aged 20-64 by 2020–by getting more people into work). Therefore, in times of the economic crisis, it is more than ever vital to offer entrepreneurship education to everyone by contributing to the objective of the Entrepreneurship 2020 Action plan of integrating it into ALL EDUCATIONAL LEVELS. Entrepreneurship education in the framework of regions that aim at smart growth, calls for MORE COOPERATION AND COHERENCE and demands that educators are equipped with the ADEQUATE SKILLS, COMPETENCES AND TOOLS THAT BOOST SYNERGIES between stakeholders of the entrepreneurial ecosystem and allow CROSS-SECTORAL SPILL-OVERS. There is a TRAINING NEED FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATORS to enable them to cope with these new trends that smart growth entails and provide them with competences and methodologies to deliver up-to date entrepreneurship education. ECO-SystemApp, as MULTI-SECTOR project, will respond to this need by adopting a SYSTEM APPROACH that considers all those stakeholders of the ecosystem that are involved in providing support for entrepreneurs as TARGET GROUP by recognising them as ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATORS, namely: teachers, trainers and educators from all educational levels, businesses, public authorities and Civil Society organisations(associations, foundations, youth organisations). The project pursues the GENERAL OBJECTIVE of fostering an entrepreneurial environment that will boost the ecosystems knowledge based on entrepreneurial learning and experience.SPECIFIC OBJECTIVESa. Enhance the up-skilling of entrepreneurship educators and contribute to the embedding of EE at all educational levelsb. Promote the transfer and take-up of practical entrepreneurial experiences and disseminate effective methodologies, tools and resources for up to date Entrepreneurship educationc. Develop an assessment tool for the validation of learning outcomesd. Enhance strategic multi-stakeholder cooperation for synergies by strengthening peer-to-peer learningThe ECO-SystemApp Consortium is composed of 7 entities (Educational institutions, civil society organisation, public entity and business) with vast experience in entrepreneurship education in all educational fields tackled. Consortium partners are from 7 European Member States.To achieve the project objectives, the consortium will carried out the following ACTIVITIES: O1- created a peer to peer learning guideline that highlights role models of the entrepreneurial ecosystem; Multiplier events E1-E7- organized interactive peer-to-peer networking events that promoted collaboration and coherence on regional and international level; O2-created an open online training course for entrepreneurship educators in regions that aim at smart growth, O3- elaborated a Handbook that provides complementary course information and promotes curiosity based learning, O4 develop and piloted a virtual exchange programme between entrepreneurs and educators that promoted the acquisition of practical entrepreneurship experience for educators, O5-created an assessment tool for the validation and recognition of learning outcomes; O6-built a repository of open educational resources for entrepreneurship education in the framework of smart growth; O7- set up the “Entrepreneurship Hub” as an innovative peer-to-peer support structure that helps to discuss and jointly develop new approaches, methodologies and tools for smart entrepreneurship education, O8- Developed the Virtual learning environment that integrates O1-7; C1- ran a joint training activity that tested outputs O1-O8 and studied possibilities for the up-scaling of project results. The project used a participatory METHODOLOGY that is based on collaboration and fosters synergies and spill-overs that are instrumental to the transfer and scalability of project results. ECO-SystemApp involved more than 100 participants directly in the project activities and reached over 600 stakeholders through dissemination and exploitation activities. The RESULTS are up-skilled entrepreneurship educators and vibrant entrepreneurship ecosystems that are based on collaboration and coherence. The IMPACT is a higher number of students of all educational levels that benefit from an increased employability through the participation in smart entrepreneurship education.