The need for capacity building in university-enterprise cooperation, entrepreneurship and employability of graduates has been identified as a priority in Indonesia. The lack of an appropriate space and place with necessary resources for universities to interaction with enterprise (commercial and social) was identified as an important challenge. Further, the need to understand how to embed entrepreneurship into the students’ structured taught delivery including curricula development and external experiences, such as placements and enterprise projects was a further need. Also, there is a need to develop incubator activity to allow students and their teams to exploit their ideas and networks within a secure environment. The aim of the project is to implement a physical Growth Hub (a one-stop-shop for business support, more indepth student interactions with employers and richer HEI-Enterprise cooperation) in each Indonesian HEI, adapted to suit the local and regional context and needs, along with a virtual Learning Network that will include students, enterprises and other stakeholders.The impact will be to improve the relationship and enhance cooperation of the Indonesian partner HEIs with their stakeholders. Furthermore, by improving the quality and capacity of career-ready graduates, it will improve economic performance through employing HEI graduates who have benefited from the project outputs.
The project aimed to support the modernisation, accessibility and internationalisation of higher education in Indonesia. This action contributed to the development of sustainable and inclusive socio-economic growth in Indonesia. The main focus of the project was to provide entrepreneurship education that students in each Indonesian partner should receive as part of their programme of study and to develop a comprehensive framework for embedding an interactive and progressive set of entrepreneurial learning outcomes (ELO) into programme curricula and career development planning.The project also implemented a Growth Hub in each Indonesian partner university, adapted to suit their local and regional context and needs. The project embedded the triangular approach to capacity building in the Indonesian higher education sector that included three converging streams of activities addressing the priority area of university-enterprise cooperation, entrepreneurship and employability of graduates. The project also resulted in creating a virtual Learning Network including students, enterprises and other stakeholders that operates at the university level, between universities and also across the Indonesian higher education sector. Activities included: - Assessment of the detailed needs of each Indonesian HEI partner with an Action Plan for each of the 3 components (the triangular approach) of the project.- The development of a comprehensive framework for embedding an interactive and progressive set of entrepreneurial learning outcomes (ELO) into study programme curricula, course content and career development planning.- Multi-level (i.e. network, institutional, and programme) learning outcome programme plans that embedded sustainable state-of-the-art and targeted entrepreneurial learning pedagogies. Building on the HEInnovate Entrepreneurial assessment at university level and resulting Action Plans it involved engagement with external stakeholders with the universities who contributed to enterprise support, guidance and advice within the student learning experience.- Training and development of university staff relating to the knowledge, skills and competences to design and establish an Enterprise Incubation Unit within each university. Creating a resource base for student learning, university staff, graduates and early stage entrepreneurs, that supported local enterprise development activities.- Established a Growth Hub at each Indonesian partner with a digital infrastructure for the GITA Learning Network portal. - Strengthening the internationalisation of university capacity to network effectively in research, scientific and technological innovation including international openness of curricula, student services, inter-institutional mobility schemes, scientific cooperation and knowledge transfer.- Upgrading of facilities necessary for the implementation of innovative practices (e.g. for new curricula and teaching methods, for the development of new services, etc).