The Hungarian Central Transdanubian Regional Innovation Agency, a project partner of the InnoSchool project, is working on to better understand the processes that have impact on the development and future of the region. CTRIA decided to externalize a research within the InnoSchool project to gather essential inputs that could be used to refine the InnoSchool Learning System (ILS) in the future at local level.

The focus of the research was on students in the age of 15 to 17 years. The research involved more than 1500 students from various schools – vocational schools, regular middle schools and middle schools with special study programs – in Székesfehérvár and from other settlements of Fejér county.

The key results of the research provided us with a general overview of the students’ attitudes and expectations from entrepreneurship. The research shows that the target group of the InnoSchool project is opened towards entrepreneurial education. A significant proportion of students (43%) would like to learn more about entrepreneurship. This figure is interesting if we compare it to other subjects. Students of this age group showed really high interest towards languages (70%) and informatics (48%), but generally low interest to other subjects (Literature 32%; Geography and Biology around 25%, etc…). This means that entrepreneurship is more interesting to them than most of the subjects. In addition, while 30% of the students are not sure whether they would participate in events related to entrepreneurship, 80% of those who are sure about their attitudes would participate. Therefore, entrepreneurial education seems to be interesting for students in the region. CTRIA believes the high level of interest and edutainment approach of ILS serious game will ensure the students long term engagement to the topic.

Other relevant aspects of the research are related to the skills of students. Students subjectively reported their entrepreneurial skills. Due to the nature of the research, we believe students provided a more positive picture of their skills, however the results might be interesting to the project if carefully interpreted. The results show that the student’s leading and time management skills must be improved, however emphatic skills are existing, they reported to be capable of motivating others and being cooperative in teamwork. To summarize it, the researched showed some relevant inputs for the further development of the ILS concept.