The idea of A BEE C project - Artistic Approach to Business Education, Entrepreneurship and Culture, is to develop the   students’ entrepreneurial skills and eco-consciousness through art.

The project will last for two years, as in the first year the stage play will be written and played in front of an audience, and in the second year the comic strips and the electron version-game of the story, based on the same plot line, will be created. In the same year they will be presented in front of the community.

The main target group of the project are the early secondary students as they can already read and write both in mother tongue and in English. Another reason for it is that this age group are still in general school and have not been taught into economics, entrepreneurship and vocational education. In this respect we will be working on their professional and career counselling prior their formal choice of secondary education.

All of the participants /students, consultants and mentors/ are volunteers and the activities of the introduction and distribution of the final products in front of an audience /merchandising/ will have be charitable.

The project will create an international students company with 4 departments. The project has to be international as we all need globalization of informal education. It is a pedagogical trend to combine informal teaching methods with teaching social skills. Living in a larger and multinational community in which diversity is highly appreciated, children are expected to be brought into European values, tolerance, and be able to work in a multinational team with other teammates with different background.

The project will create an international students company with 4 departments.

The Theatre Department – the participating children must be children who have interest in writing stories and screenplays and acting

The Art Department– children with artistic talents and interests/painting, handcrafting/ will participate in the process of making the decors and costumes, and crafting of items related merchandizing. The aim of this is to teach children to produce items which to bring highest profit – merchandizing.

The Comics Department – the participating children should have an interest in writing stories or in drawing /here may also participate the children from Theatre and Art Departments ( who were active in the first year of the project work) , if they wish.

The IT Department – the participating children should have a taste for using computer and wish to learn how to use it in an artistic way – text, graphics, animation, sound to apply the method of gamization in education.

In each country The Company will attract, outer specialists, including parents, as trainers and mentors in every direction. They will help the children and the teachers in the training process, realization and the dissemination of the final project products – the stage play, the comic strip and the electron version-game, which will have a common plotline and a title. The title of the play, as suggested by the children, is “Crazy Bee” namely.

Author: Tanya Borisova