Abstract:

The European Parliament (EU) in 2006 recommended development of Key Competences during all educational system and even later as Long Life Learning concept (Recommendation 2006/962/EC). Because of significant changes in European societies, economies, demographic, digital and technological innovations as well as the labour market, a new version of Competences for Lifelong Learning was published by the same institution in 2018 (EU, 2018, p. C 189/11). The Key Competences from 2006 to 2018 stays the same. One of Key competence is entrepreneurship, which is not exclusively related to education, but it should be developed as each education level.

The aim of study is to represent, if pre-service Biology teachers, at the end of university study are aware of what competencies, especially entrepreneurship, they have developed during their studies. They feel that they have acquired just the knowledge which they will need to teach biology. In this study will be compared view between students and teachers, according to developing entrepreneurship competences during university study. It will be also described which key competences, during university study, according to syllabuses at study program Biology teacher, students should developed, and which competences were really developed. Students are mostly unaware of the development of competencies (especially entrepreneurship) during their studies. But during different university activities, professors recognized students´ developing entrepreneurship competences. The example is national project ‘Po kreativni poti do znanja’ (translated roughly ‘Creative career leading to knowledge’) were students are involved, to developed something useful for the public use (Author, 2019), what is the main goal of European Commission: promotes entrepreneurship as an individual’s ability to turn ideas into action. It includes creativity, innovation, risk taking, ability to plan and manage projects in order to achieve objectives (Commission Staff Working Document, 2018).

Keywords:

Key Competences, Entrepreneurship, Higher Education, Soft Skills.