The overarching aim of DeThink is to optimize secondary school teachers’ self-efficacy to enable an entrepreneurial mindset, critical thinking and creativity.
DeThink provides state of the art training for secondary school teachers in the field of design thinking, innovation and entrepreneurship by integrating lessons learned and know-how and showing them how to apply these in practice.
A comprehensive toolkit comprising a structured process, methods, templates and tools will be developed. It shows teachers how to adopt a design thinking approach to entrepreneurship education by focusing on key stages i.e., empathise, define, ideate, prototype and test.
DeThink provides teachers with the self-efficacy, competencies and tools to equip their students with these skills. It builds entrepreneurial education readiness and help them to rapidly leverage innovative and focused entrepreneurial principles easily in their own environment. DeThink produces the following results.
DeThink provides training for secondary school teachers in the field of design thinking for innovative entrepreneurial education. Existing training materials in the area of entrepreneurship focus on plans and outputs and do not meet the needs of students. A design thinking approach focuses on building empathy, discovering problems and experimenting with many ideas to solve those problems. It is research-led and proven to foster an entrepreneurial attitude by promoting engaging, effective learning experiences and allowing students to experiment and practice. While design thinking has gained momentum for product design in industry it has received little attention in schools. DeThink addresses this gap.
DeThink Project News
The leaflet containing DeThink's exciting first project results has been published.
The DeThink Project Consortium, a collaboration between six esteemed partners, recently convened in Galway for a transnational partner meeting on 9th May 2023.