Entrepreneurship education of 11th-12th graders: case of Lithuania and Germany

ENChildren and young people are daily exposed to entrepreneurship and its various forms: they learn about citizens’ incomes, the situation in the market, inflation, globalization, economic innovations, influence of new communication and information technologies on professional qualification and the labour market in public space or from mass media reports. Under conditions of rapidly developing new technologies and changing social relations, the goals of education are more and more frequently oriented towards economy-related issues. Entrepreneurship education of school learners, as future active participants in the market, has become more and more relevant in Lithuania as in the rest of the world. Investments into education and training are perceived as investments into the main factor of production, i-e., labour force as well as into the welfare and social stability of people (Evaluation of the European Union Lisbon Agenda and its Impact to Lithuania, 2003, p. 9; The Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan, 2013, p. 3).