With increasing EU interest in the contribution of entrepreneurship education and wider skills development for better performing enterprises the ETF will maintain its support to the European Commission ensuring that key policy messages are disseminated to the partner countries.

Firstly, the ETF will consolidate the lifelong entrepreneurial learning policy index elaborated in 2007-2008 set against the provisions of the European Small Business Act. More specifically, the activities foresee the second and final phase a pilot action which aims to promote across-campus entrepreneurship education involving universities from a further eight countries (eight countries participated in phase 1 of the pilot in 2009) involving the development of methodology for entrepreneurial learning audits in tertiary level education. The outcomes of the overall cross-regional exercise will be discussed at a cross-regional conference in November 2010. This meeting will determine the viability of a first set of indicators for transition and developing economies in the area of entrepreneurship in third level education.

Secondly, following EU policy recommendations on education-economy cooperation, the ETF will support two countries (one pre-accession, one Southern Mediterranean) on partnership building for lifelong entrepreneurial learning and where both countries will co-work policy developments and partnership building processes. This activity will build on the experience from the ETF 2009 entrepreneurial learning partnership project in Serbia.

Finally, the ETF intends to further its EU policy dissemination services with broader information events. Two activities in particular are foreseen in 2010. First, the dissemination of the outcomes of the EU’s internal reflection process on entrepreneurship education and training, including a more involved engagement of a select group of partner countries (Turkey, Israel, Croatia, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro ) in a similar policy reflection process on entrepreneurship education. Second, the ETF will start preparations of a high profile international symposium on lifelong entrepreneurial learning to take place in spring 2011, possibly in cooperation with a multi-country meeting on the Turin Process (see below). The crux of entrepreneurial learning meeting will be to focus on innovative policy and good practice in lifelong entrepreneurial learning with a particular focus on developing a system for accredited best practice.