Założenia i wstępne wyniki europejskiego projektu badawczego FIFOBI w zakresie kształtowania kompetencji uczniów gimnazjum do prowadzenia działalności gospodarczej

The article aims at the presentation of guidelines and preliminary results of European research project „Fit for Business: Developing Business Competencies in School (FIFOBI)” in developing competencies among pupils in lower secondary school (gymnasium) for running business activity, based on premises associated with modern changes in world economy as well as with changes on the labour market. The analysis of core school curriculum, conducted within the first stage of research work, showed that a Polish pupil ought to be equipped with basic economic knowledge to a relatively large degree. However, it should be noticed that there are significant gaps in developing competences for running own business, particularly in management as well as in social competences, especially connected with solving conflicts and doing teamwork, and in personal competences, associated with entrepreneurial attitude (the records of the core curriculum are narrowed to planning further education and describing traits of an entrepreneurial person).