Intervention 5.1 - Guidance actions 

Learning how to set up an enterprise. School seminars - Vocational training institute  
The course was aimed at 18 students from fourth and fifth high school classes. It aimed at helping the participants in finding out their vocations and skills, as well as an eventual desire to start an independent profession. The students were asked to sketch out their own "professional portrait", outlining their skills and potential and defining their expectations for the future. Then they were asked to analyse the professional profile of the entrepreneur and the local economic environment. Finally they had to draw up a proposal for a project including all the technical information necessary for evaluation and implementation. The course was the outcome of the cooperation with schools and envisaged the use of interactive educational tools as videos and cd-roms, as well as remote training. The course lasted from October 1999 to April 2000, for a total of 40 hours, 16 of which devoted to remote training.