The idea of the project is to excel entrepreneurship education in higher education by creating effective knowledge alliances (KA) between higher education institutions (HEI) and businesses. It is focused on developing students’ entrepreneurship competencies (ECs) to meet the labour market expectations towards professional competencies of employees and entrepreneurs taking into account the macro-level developments such as globalisation, technological advancements and demographic shifts. The project includes both diagnoses of divergences between employers’ needs and actual students’ entrepreneurship competences (ECs), proposition of the new entrepreneurship education (EE) framework embedding ECs together with innovative teaching and learning approaches and its application in practice. The novelty of the project is guaranteed by cooperation of diverse partners interested in different but innovative teaching and learning approaches for students and future workforce with competences meeting societal challenges. The Project includes new and innovative tools and teaching and learning opportunities, which are different from the existing experiences in HEI and businesses today. These include: self-assessment tools to assess the level and need for ECs according to societal needs; new innovative study and training programmes relying on entrepreneurship competence-based approach; innovative teaching and learning approaches based on embedding the development of ECs in EE and subject-specific courses; roadmap for the development of expansive entrepreneurial learning environment at the workplaces supporting ECs development. The project is focused on providing innovative solutions for both, universities and businesses and is supporting the development of innovative and reflective European societies with an innovative HEIs and businesses in a context of growing global interdependencies.
The objectives of the Knowledge Alliance are to:*investigate entrepreneurship competence (EC), considering macro-level changes*develop the content of study programmes for entrepreneurship education (EE) courses*develop innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning*development of the content and methodology for training of teaching staff*develop theory and practice driven guidelines and roadmap for the development of EC*develop the training programme for SME managers
The idea of the project is to excel entrepreneurship education in higher education by creating effective knowledge alliances (KA) between higher education institutions (HEI) and businesses. It is focused on developing students’ entrepreneurship competence (EC) to meet the labour market expectations towards professional competencies of employees and entrepreneurs taking into account the macro-level developments such as globalisation, technological advancements and demographic shifts.
<< Background >> The idea of the project is to excel entrepreneurship education in higher education by creating effective knowledge alliances (KA) between higher education institutions (HEI) and businesses. It is focused on developing students’ entrepreneurship competence (EC) to meet the labour market expectations towards professional competencies of employees and entrepreneurs taking into account the macro-level developments such as globalisation, technological advancements and demographic shifts. << Objectives >> The objectives of the Knowledge Alliance are to:*investigate entrepreneurship competence (EC), considering macro-level changes*develop the content of study programmes for entrepreneurship education (EE) courses*develop innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning*development of the content and methodology for training of teaching staff*develop theory and practice driven guidelines and roadmap for the development of EC*develop the training programme for SME managers << Implementation >> All activities during the project in cooperation between universities and enterprises have worked for the benefit of HEIs and businesses. The project contributes to the development of study programmes, guidelines and learning materials. The project results were piloted, implemented and improved based on feedback. The dissemination of the learning materials in partner countries are useful for the development of EE in universities. << Results >> Through acquiring the knowledge and experience sustainability has been created among university and company staff to continue with the experiences and tools gained in future activities of teaching and coaching and supporting the development of EC among students and employees. The learning materials available for other European and other countries/universities the project output of learning materials can be helpful also for wider use.