Take Tech – Connecting Economy and Education at an Early Stage

Abstract

TAKE TECH is an EU-funded Leonardo da Vinci - Transfer of Innovation project and lasted from the 1st of October 2011 until the 30th of November 2013. It aimed to enhance and transfer the successful TAKE TECH method from the region of Styria in Austria to several European partner countries. This project can be seen as a well-structured example for the imperative of EU-projects to strengthen the
European economy by developing innovative pedagogic and for this reason it is exemplary for the close conjunction of economy and education as a part of the European education strategy.