Hands on entrepreneurship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Hands on 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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

The need of entrepreneurial mindset and action oriented European citizens is taken for granted. In this scenario educational sector is a key player and being aware of this Educational Institutions are implementing programs and actions to answers this social and economic demand.
The project addresses the following needs:
• The need to boost entrepreneurial and innovative competences and capabilities.
• The new way of teaching entrepreneurship at university and postgraduate education on business studies and other studies (sciences, engineering, arts, etc..)
The aim of the project is to create a Master on Entrepreneurship, Leadership and innovation for the development of entrepreneurial skills in HE post graduate students with an innovative action learning methodology approach with a new curricula and contents and to implement and test a post graduate pilot program.
The project consortium is composed by 3 Universities: Deusto Business School, Budapest Business School and Tiimiakatemia -the entrepreneurship centre of excellence of the JAMK university of applied sciences in Jyväskylä- and one Research and Technological Centre . Tecnalia. Tiimiakatemia has 20 years of experience in entrepreneurial education with innovative learning by doing methods and experiential and reflexive learning approaches . A key point in this approach is the creation of an enterprise with all its implications as a tool for students learning.
Budapest and Deusto Business School are looking for more innovative methodology in their educational programs and Tecnalia is committed with entrepreneurial movement: Tecnalia has a Venture unit and Team Academy Euskadi (http://www.teamacademy-euskadi.com/)programs for post graduate (not official) to connect students with Technologies opportunities to launch new business. An also Tecnalia as industrial partner will connect students to industry, or better said to connect students to industrial and technological needs to solve them in a creative and innovative way .
The methodology to carry out the project is similar to Lean Start-Up approach. Project will start with several pilot actions to assess their value and impact. The methodologies to design actions will be Design Thinking as a proven approach to observe, understand and propose meaningful solutions oriented to customers. So students will be engaged those actions and give consortium their feedback.. Finally an innovative master will be designed and tested as a First Edition. This master will have ECTS approach for its official approval. During the project Deusto Business School and Budapest Business Scholl will take all the steps for the official recognition after the project.
The project is organised in the following lines of action:
• Exchange practices and approaches about entrepreneurial training to create, develop and organize training and experiential activities. Also with a deep look into what is currently happening in the educational sector at all levels from school to VET and HE.
• Design, implement and asses a set of activities in HE environment to facilitate alumni to gain entrepreneurial awareness and competences to co-create their personal and team business ideas and personal brand. This set of activities will be part of a postgraduate Master degree. Evaluation of the pilot program(s) by using indicators and an evaluation system according to the type of innovative program.
• Dissemination of project results and involvement as far as possible to all the stakeholders of the university, educational and institutional level.
• Analysis of the sustainability of the concept developed. Feasibility of implementation of the program continuously.
The results and impact expected are:
• O1 Partners’ current practices on entrepreneurship education.
• O2 Study on current innovative practices on entrepreneurship education around Europe.
• O3 Master in Entrepreneurship and innovative Leadership.
• O4 Hands on Entrepreneurship methodology and Training material.
• O5 Main learnings and conclusions.
• O6 Dissemination and exploitation. also
The project will organise several dissemination and multiplier events as stakeholders and expert workshops in the three countries involved. Learning activities as Intensive international experience of students will also assure the transfer of innovative methodological approach.
The first impact is on post graduate students that will develop or improve their entrepreneurs and leadership skills to lead projects and teams with the ability to create innovations in his/her future companies and a better employability.
Universities involved will have a new offer for their students: under and post graduate students.
The real beneficiary is society in general and specifically Europe. Europe is good at managing knowledge buthas to face up the entrepreneurial challenge that society is demanding.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 205741 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSIDAD DE LA IGLESIA DE DEUSTO & Country: ES

Project Partners

• BUDAPESTI GAZDASAGI EGYETEM
• FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION
• JYVASKYLAN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU