German founder award for schoolchildren

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German Founder Award for Schoolchildren
(DGPS)
founding 1999
founder Stern, Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe, ZDF, Porsche AG
Seat Hamburg
main emphasis Student competition, business simulation
Website www.dgp-schueler.de

The German Entrepreneurship Prize for Schoolchildren is a category of the German Entrepreneurship Prize and is the largest business start-up simulation game in Germany for schoolchildren from grade 9 at general and vocational schools. The competition was launched in 1999 as a “StartUp workshop”. The aim is to encourage young people to be self-employed and to promote important interdisciplinary skills. The contents are adapted to the curricula of the federal states and can be optimally integrated into the lessons. 83,000 schoolchildren have taken part since the competition was founded.

procedure

In the game phase from January to May, the student teams develop a business plan including sales and marketing strategy based on nine tasks. With the website builder from cooperation partner Jimdo, you can also create a website according to your ideas. During the entire game phase, the young people are individually supported by a game supervisor from the Sparkasse, a teacher and a company sponsor from the business world.

All teams that achieve the minimum number of points will be judged by the jury after the end of the game phase in May. First, two independent jurors evaluate the business concepts of the students and award points. In addition, the teams receive personal feedback on their work. In a third and final jury round, the ten best teams are selected by a panel of experts.

Prices

The top 10 teams will be honored at the nationwide award ceremony in Hamburg ; the winning team also takes part in the awarding of the German Founder's Prize in Berlin .

Places one to five receive individual management and personality training in the four-day “Future Camp”. The sixth to tenth placed will be invited to a one-day workshop of the DGPS partners.

All participants receive a certificate of participation. In addition, the respective savings bank associations award regional prizes. In order to emphasize the important role of teachers in the simulation game, the "Teacher of the Year" is also honored as part of the competition. The nomination is made by the participating student teams.

Sponsor

The initiators of the German Founders Award are the Stern magazine , ZDF , the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe and Porsche AG. The student award is also supported by a board of trustees to which the media companies Bertelsmann , Gruner + Jahr , the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the insurance companies of the savings banks belong. The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy supports the DGPS as part of its “Entrepreneurship in Schools” initiative group.

German founder award for student alumni eV

The German Entrepreneurship Award for Student Alumni eV is an alumni network that is open to all participants in the competition. The members benefit from a wide range of networking, both with one another and with the partners of the German Founder Award.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ New round in the fight for the founder award. In: Aachener Zeitung. Retrieved November 16, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Course of the game. In: DGPS website. Retrieved November 16, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b Project profile at the BMWi. Retrieved November 16, 2015 .
  5. ↑ a b prices. In: DGPS website. Retrieved November 16, 2015 .
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  7. ↑ Start- up award for Leutkirch students: learning app makes formulas easy | Friedrichshafen | News. swr.online, accessed on November 16, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Regional prices. DGPS website, accessed on November 16, 2015 .
  9. ↑ German start-up award for pupils: This is the best teacher in Germany - Panorama. stern.de, accessed on November 16, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Teacher of the year 2015: Ansbach high school teacher wins the title - Life. stern.de, accessed on November 16, 2015 .
  11. ↑ About the competition. In: DGPS website. Retrieved November 16, 2015 .
  12. ↑ DGPSA e. V. Accessed on February 25, 2020 (German).