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WORKSHOP CONCLUSIONSRapporteur: Volkmar Liebig, ifm - Institut für Fremdsprachen und Management, GermanyThis workshop deals with projects which develop entrepreneurship skills in primary schools. Günter Verheugen,EU-Commissar, says: „Entrepreneurs are the economic DNA which we need to build Competitiveness and Innovation inEurope”. The key questions discussed on the workshop are:Can you learn entrepreneurial skills or are they in your genes?What does it take to be an entrepreneur?Why do fewer Europeans have what it takes?In the US the culture of entrepreneurship has a high social impact. The Americans are justly proud of a culture thatallows individuals to create businesses. It‘s long been thought that Europeans, for whatever reasons, simply do not havethe same mindset. Obviously there are a lot of differences between the American and European mindset. But there arefew beacons in Europe – for instance the projects presented in workshop 1 “Entrepreneurship in Primary Schools”.I. Proposals and Recommendations Workshop No 1What we have:.What we need:A lot of Best Practise ProjectsUnderstanding Entrepreneurship is a KeyCompetitionEntrepreneurship is a Topic in Primary SchoolsEntrepreneurship has different AspectsA better Platform of Projects and TeachingMaterialsBetter Transfer of the Processes of Best PractiseProjectsBetter Integration of the ProjectsMore PPP-Projects, less small firmsII.Remarks from the rapporteurThe presented projects represent all relevantaspects of entrepreneurship shown in thefollowing figure.31Entrepreneurship Education in Europe: Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindsets through Education and Learning