Teaching Digital Entrepreneurship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Teaching Digital Entrepreneurship

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Context/background of project
The project aims to fill the gap existing between the competencies required (to both the individuals and the organizations) to compete in a digitalized world and the High Educational teaching programme mainly addressed to transfer knowledge to start and manage traditional business. Accordingly, the international partnership aims to create and diffuse curriculum for teaching DE able to positively affect graduates’ employability across the EU. In doing this, the partnership will produce innovative contents and teaching guidelines allowing for inclusion new technology to education programmes.

Objectives of your project
Planned outcomes (contents and teaching guidelines) relate to three key issues:
1) how to teach digital entrepreneurship when technology advancement progresses;
2) how to sustain updating content for teaching;
3) what means are the best for this purpose?

Number and profile of participants
The project participants constitutes following groups:
1.Up to 2-4 researchers and teachers from each partner university will take part in preparing Intellectual Outputs (IO).
2. Up to three staff members from each partner university will participate in the training course. These teachers should be able to train up new academic staff on their own, which will have a significant positive impact on the number of project beneficiaries in the long run. Teachers will participate in the exchange of knowledge and experiences with both partner universities and business partners.
3. Students from business studies taking part in an intensive teaching programme in which at least 4 students at each of the partner universities will be involved.
4. Business partners selected individually by each project partner from the cooperating with given universities companies, practising digital entrepreneurship. We assume participation at least 20 representatives of external institutions/entrepreneurs who will join in our multiple events.

The project assumes the following activities;
I Phase. Building a new teaching methodology (based on guidelines, handbook, casebook and curriculum).
II Phase. Teachers and students preparation, modular course testing
III Phase. Dissemination

The project is based on project management methodology with PRINCE guidelines.

A short description of the results and impact
We expect to achieve following results during the project:
a. Creating a new curriculum on topics related to “Digital Entrepreneurship” equipped with textbook, casebook and teachers ready to teach students how to embrace entrepreneurs’ uncertainty facing digitalization and how to use new technology for business purpose;
b. Building, widening and developing new competencies for teachers in the field of digital entrepreneurship;
c. Transferring new and innovative knowledge to students, enabling them to develop entrepreneurial and digital skills start and manage entrepreneurial digital initiative.

After project’s completion we expect to:
a. extend and sustain partnership activity, increase partnership members capacity to function at transnational level and exchange discussed new solutions and theoretical developments about digital entrepreneurship.
b. sustain updating curriculum due to new technological developments appearing in the future what enriches existing courses offerts to full-time and part-time students.
c. foster entrepreneurial mind-sets and skills in order to diminished perceived uncertainty towards digitalization and create entrepreneur’s narrative easing to interpret the boundaries associated with a digital entrepreneurial opportunity as an intermingling of human and material (digital) agencies.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 317226 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIWERSYTET EKONOMICZNY W KRAKOWIE & Country: PL

Project Partners

• BORYS GRINCHENKO KYIV UNIVERSITY
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI SALERNO
• UNIVERSIDAD DE JAEN
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI PARTHENOPE
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FOGGIA
• WIRTSCHAFTSUNIVERSITAT WIEN