Public event of the InnoSchool project took place in Liberec, Czech Republic, on 27th of September 2018. More than 40 people, from the Czech Republic and abroad, representatives of educational institutions, policy bodies, organizations working with social needs and similar projects in the fields of digital education and social entrepreneurship, gathered in KultiVAR, co-working place for artists and freelancers. “Our mission is to strengthen entrepreneurial mindset, social innovation and skills of secondary school students” (Vojtech Jira, project manager for CZE). InnoSchool is a project that combines serious interactive game, teacher guidance and lecturing and consequently improves the motivation of students for social entrepreneurship in involved European regions. Further, the game will be interconnected with social media and the schools will compete against each other on a national level.

We introduced the InnoSchool concept to the public and our four guest speakers were discussing the topic of motivating the secondary school students for social entrepreneurship as well as the current educational system and the use of digital technologies.

Before the public event, on Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th of September 2018, all partners of the InnoSchool project joint in Jablonec nad Nisou, for their first internal and also kick-off meeting. Besides the project management and coordination topics, it came out the need for a research amongst secondary school students in order to establish the knowledge of what social needs are they interested in. According to the results of research, the development of the serious game itself (a core innovative element introduced by InnoSchool) will be carried out by the Technical University of Kosice under the supervision of the Vienna Board of Education.