Embedding Entrepreneurship Mindset in Lifelong Learning Activities for the Pursuit of Eudaimonia

Abstract

Leaving apart the traditional idea of entrepreneurship of starting a business and enhancing the aspect of recognizing and taking advantage of any chances, this constitutes the starting point of pathways of lifelong learning not only for gaining skills and competences but also for being in touch with eudaimonia (happiness). Entrepreneurship mindset liberates and enhances the emancipation of adult learners and helps them to their transformation of becoming lifelong learners who enjoy any learning activity where their imagination and creativity flourish. Active citizenship, respect to other people’s rights, uniqueness and diversity, collaboration and sensitivity to sustainability, digitalization and green transition as well as lifelong happiness could be parts of their orientation towards their participation in learning activities. Thus, unlearning and relearning as well as upskilling and reskilling do not refer only to the workplace but to the whole journey of their life. Τhe recognition and exploitation of opportunities to participate in learning activities as an imprint of the entrepreneurial mindset was not recognizable by the research participants. Adult learner transformation where liberation and emancipation empower the gaining of entrepreneurial skills could be a pathway to eudaimonia.