Developing Entrepreneurship as a Transversal Competence for the Future: The Case of Entrepreneurial Training at the University of Florence

Developing competences focused on creativity, flexibility and sense of initiative is a priority on the European Agenda to keep up in a rapidly changing world. The European Commission since 2006 has included entrepreneurial competences among the key competences for lifelong learning and emphasized the relationship between entrepreneurship and employability. These competences are increasingly required for an effective transition into the labor market and to generate value (be it economic, cultural or social) within organizational contexts, to face the current social and economic challenges and transformations. Educational research may appear, at a first glance, distant from this subject; but, on the contrary, it is called to provide its own perspective, pedagogically oriented, to not trace these issues only to profit logic. Instead, educational research can provide a paradigm of human development.