1. SEET Seminar Amsterdam January 29th 2010 Policy for Entrepreneurial Education in NORWAY By/ ass. professor Inger Karin Røe Ødegård

2. Inger Karin Røe Ødegård Entrepreneurship in Education 2004 – 2006 – 2009 2014 Three Ministries responsible for the national Entrepreneurship policy ‒ The Ministry for Education and Research ‒ The Ministry for Trade and Industry ‒ The Ministry for Local Government and Regional Development A national Strategy from primary school to College and University level 2004 – Strategy Plan 1 (See the opportunities and make them work) 2006 – Revision, Strategy Plan 2 (New national Knowledge Promotion Reform and subject curricula, Grade 1-13) 2008 – Evaluation 2009 – Action Plan in the period up to 2014 2

3. Aim achievement 2004 - 2010 Inger Karin Røe Ødegård Increased cooperation between educational institutions, business community and local- as well as national public sector Competence upgrading – teachers and principals in primary and secondary schools Teacher Training institutions cross the country offer entrepreneurship courses/studies Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise – Government support in the context of following-up the national Strategy Achieved Not Achieved Lecturers in Teacher Colleges have not strengthened their competence Regional differences with regard to the extent of activities Regional differences to which extent the strategy is grounded by the school owners Textbooks/materials 3

4. Inger Karin Røe Ødegård The FUTURE - improvement Strengthen the entrepreneurship competence of lectures and school managers Develop and disseminate textbooks and instruction manuals Research - widen the knowledge-base about entrepreneurship in education Transnational collaboration concerning entrepreneurship in education The Oslo Agenda – a rich menu of proposals (51 % of the proposed actions are honoured in the Norwegian policy)