The organisation, development and continuum of innovation and entrepreneurial education for years 5-10 (pupils aged 10 to 16 years old) in an Icelandic compulsory school.

Practice of innovation- and entrepreneurship education training for compulsory school students.

Compulsory school students age 10-16 years

Offer of IEE through well thought out development and delivery in the organisation of IEE, from laying the foundation towards more entrepreneurial emphasis in the older classes (from ages 10-16). The lessons are given in years 5 - 7 (students aged 10 -12 years old) provide the foundation for innovative thinking, the ideology, and needs and solutions.      Year 8. – Smoke Free: students develop promotional materials for anti-smoking, built on the innovation foundation of year 5. – 7. Year 9. Coffee-shop: students are introduced to and try out the running of companies and firms.  Input from local culture and sources. Students focus on cooperation.&

Each programme runs for six weeks with two or three lessons for each programme Additionally there are lessons related to the projects, such as maths to calculate costs and revenues, and Icelandic lessons to design and make announcements and advertisments. Sometimes there is extra time for field trips to firms and VET schools.

The lessons are built around four folders with teaching resources. 1 Laying the foundation for innovative thinking. 2 Innovation and technology. 3 Innovation and marketing. 4 Innovation and the Environment. There are additional Swedisch materials from Finn-upp. With older students the school uses materials for the Coffee shop developed by the lead teacher Rita, adapted from  ideas from Norway and her ideas for the project Creating Worth in the Community. The lessons are introductions by the teacher, and teaching resources include films, DVDs, Power Point presentations, guest lecturers, discussions, hands-on work, and fieldtrips.

Rita Didriksen a teacher at the compulsory school, Grunnskólinn austan Vatna, has been leading the development of innovation and entrepreneurial education (IEE) in the school for the last three years. She has integrated administrators and most teachers into the IEE work. The core team of teachers developing IEE meet for 15 minutes once a week, directly after a three hour session in IEE,  to discuss what went well and what could be done better. The school has received coaching from Svanborg R. Jónsdóttir, a specialist in IEE, who has visited the school on two occasions since they started delivering IEE and offers expertise and guidance. An expert panel from the FÍKNF association has highlighted the school's delivery of IEE to have a well thought curriculum and development plan through innovation education with an entrepreneurial emphasis and identified the school as a model of good practice for shorter versions of IEE at any school level. The school received the best practice in IEE award at the annual seminar of FÍKNF held on April 3.2009 at the University of Iceland.