Octoskills

What is OctoSkills:

OctoSkills is an app to measure the entrepreneurial skills of students. It also measures how students' entrepreneurial skills are developed and improved through entrepreneurship education.

The app contains: 

a questionnaire for the teacher about teaching style and practice

a questionnaire to assess the student’s entrepreneurial skills

individual and class results shown in spiderwebs

As it is now, octoskills offers 4 languages: English, German, Czech and Danish. OctoSkills will soon add another 4 languages: French, Portuguese, Italian and Croatian.

Background:

OctoSkills is developed by the Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship.

It is based on research undertaken in the ASTEE project (www.asteeproject.eu).

The aim of OctoSkills is to measure how entrepreneurship education influences students’ development of entrepreneurial skills.

Thank you to partners in the ASTEE project:

PhD Dana Redford, PEEP – Platform for Entrepreneurship Education in Portugal

PhD Thomas Cooney, Dublin Institute for Technology

Prof. Alain Fayolle, EMLYON Business School

Prof. Klaus Sailer, University of Applied Sciences Munich

Prof. Slavica Singer, J.J. Strossmayer University in Osijek 

Deputy CEO Diana Filip, JA-YE Europe

PhD Kåre Moberg, Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship.

and JA Europe for their cooperation during the development phase of OctoSkills.

App framework and content:

Project coordinators:

Susanne Kærn & Niels Haugstrup, Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship.

Content & Analysis:

Kåre Moberg & Casper Jørgensen, Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship.

Technology, Integration & Design:

Niels Haugstrup, Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship.