Becoming Future-ORiented Entrepreneurs in universities and companies Erasmus Project

Project Title

Becoming Future-ORiented Entrepreneurs in universities and companies

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 : Knowledge Alliances for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

beFORE took on the challenge to transform university entrepreneurship education, company training and business practice. The project consortium developed and released the original educational offer, which would nurture Futures Literate Individuals with improved capacity for analysing and dealing with the unknown future challenges when pursuing a professional career, managing an organisation or developing innovations. The project contributed to building a methodological and theoretical framework for future-oriented entrepreneurship coupled with the development of e-learning based educational solutions, in order to facilitate achieving a desired foresight awareness and maturity levels among entrepreneurs, students and educators.The specific needs of the target groups were analysed in a pan-European survey and effectively addressed in the educational offer composed of: one main and the three auxiliary e-learning courses for students, entrepreneurs and academics. Futures Literacy e-learning courses were tested among target groups in national pilots in: Poland, Italy, Germany and Spain. The European-targeted results of the project provide an effortless starting point for wide implementation across other countries, to which the associated partners (i.e. ISPIM, FEN, EPPM) will contribute to. The project outputs are instrumental in acquiring knowledge and skills: (i) by university teachers and company training providers allowing them to educate Futures Literate Individuals (ii) by entrepreneurs enabling them to take advantage of market and technological opportunities leading to innovations (iii) by students helping them to capture and develop business ideas. The project creates long-term impacts through: (iv) increasing synergies between educational offer of academia and business (v) increasing interdisciplinarity and flexibility of higher educational offer (vi) laying foundations to transform organisations into anticipatory and adaptive systems.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 748211 Eur

Project Coordinator

SIEC BADAWCZA LUKASIEWICZ – INSTYTUT TECHNOLOGII EKSPLOATACJI & Country: PL

Project Partners

• MU ENPRESAGINTZA S. COOP.
• AVENITURE GMBH
• 4CF SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA
• ERRE QUADRO SOCIETA A RESPONSABILITA LIMITATA
• PROSPEKTIKER INSTITUTO EUROPEO DE PROSPECTIVA Y ESTRATEGIA SA
• UNIVERSITA DI PISA
• POLITECHNIKA BIALOSTOCKA