STEP Entrepreneurship Programme
Senior 3 - Startups
ADEPT CoRe project / 2024 - 2026
CoRe = Competent & Responsible
In order to prepare students in Uganda as well as possible for life, it makes sense to teach them life skills. For this reason, lessons at secondary schools in the ADEPT programme are supplemented by three modules. The aim is for a student to have the basic skills to lead a responsible life and become an entrepreneur by the end of o-level secondary school.
MODULE 3 - "STEP Entrepreneurship Training"
One of these modules is STEP Entrepreneurship Training. Many parts of Uganda's poor rural population lack solid business knowledge and the corresponding skills. This is why the STEP entrepreneurship training programme provides young people with both basic business knowledge and initial experience in founding a start-up. Just as at the two vocational schools in the ADEPT support programme, the training will also be firmly anchored in the curriculum of the four secondary schools from 2024, in grade 10 (in Uganda "Senior 3"). STEP is an entrepreneurship training programme that aims to strengthen the entrepreneurial skills of young people. The programme was developed by the Leuphana University of Lüneburg in collaboration with the Makarere University Business School in Kampala and has been in use since 2008. A special feature of the training programme is its action-oriented approach, which has been scientifically evaluated and has a high success rate. Further information can be found here.
Previous implementations of STEP entrepreneurship training via ADEPT:
2020 - 2024: Implementation of STEP at Butende Technical Institute
2022 - 2024: Implementation of STEP at the College St. Matthias Agricultural Mbuye
2022: Workshop on the STEP programme with the secondary schools in the support programme
2023: Piloting of STEP at the secondary schools St Anthony School Kyazanga and St Bruno Ssaza
We would like to thank the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the AEB Foundation, the Beurer Foundation and the Georg Kraus Foundation for their financial support of the CoRe project in 2024 - 2026.