On April 7, Lilia Hrynevych took part in the 2nd International Conference on Entrepreneurship Education in the region of the Eastern Partnership of the European Union entitled "Entrepreneurship Competences in the European Union - the matters of curriculum and training of teachers," which was held in the Queen’s University, in Belfast (Northern Ireland).
The aim of the conference was the elaboration of regional and national approaches to the systematic introduction of key entrepreneurship competences into the educational policy and education process with a special emphasis on the framework of entrepreneurship competences of the European Union (European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework), as well as the place of teachers, curriculum and creation of a favorable environment for the formation of such competences.
The April 7 conference was held under the motto "Think Fast Fish First!" and was aimed at identifying the relevant tools for the "ecosystem" support to the significance of entrepreneurship competencies at national and regional levels of the Eastern Partnership countries. The conference was organized with the assistance of the European Commission and the ETF.
It is expected that the conference will become a platform for promoting cooperation at a regional level in order to create opportunities for experts, politicians and entrepreneurs to consolidate efforts for elaborating projects. In particular, the conference will give impetus for the creation of intersectoral partnerships at national and regional levels of the Eastern Partnership countries. According to Lilia Hrynevych, the conference will give practical knowledge and tools necessary to implement these key competences at all levels of the educational system, which is undergoing drastic changes. The Chairperson of the Committee noted that since the first conference held in 2013 in Chisinau, important achievements have been made in the Eastern Partnership countries touching the implementation of key business competences in a national level of the educational policy of the countries and at the level of elaboration of mechanisms for integrating entrepreneurship competences in formal and non-formal education at the local level.