On line environments to enhance entrepreneurial mindsets in young students

Setting up an enterprise requires enthusiasm, creativity and perseverance, while afterwards the gradual expansion of a company calls instead for management skills like efficiency, efficacy and reliability. Since both personality and management skills are decisive factors in determining success, personal skills connected to an entrepreneurial spirit should be taught early on and cultivated up to university level,where it will be possible concentrating on the acquisition of management skills. Recently, the European Commission has revealed that most member states are involved in several ways in promoting the teaching of entrepreneurship within their own educational systems. Our research starts from the Oslo conference and agenda on "Entrepreneurship Education in Europe: Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindsets through Education and Learning", highlighting the main experiences in Europe and their outcomes regarding the promotion of entrepreneurship in education. The main research objective is to define an educational model to support students in the development both of personal qualities and attitudes and of formal knowledge and kills. The model will adopt entrepreneurial environments based on social educational games. Entrepreneurial networking is more than just collaboration since it stimulates the ability to find and create new relationships, the ability and the know how to identify the key competencies that can be useful in developing entrepreneurial mindsets.