How Participation in An Intensive Project Can Increase 3rd Level Students' Awareness of Entrepreneurship

Abstract

Teaching entrepreneurial skills to third level students is be- coming increasingly recognised as a necessary skill for them to thrive in the 21st century. Across the E.U. and globally, the teaching of en- trepreneurial skills is progressively being incorporated into the core syl- labus that students take during their time in third level education. How- ever, despite the efforts of policy makers and educators, entrepreneurship is still not widespread among graduates. This paper discusses the impact on student attitudes toward entrepreneur- ship of an E.U. intensive programme (called WalkAbout) that has run for the past two years. In the first year, 28% of the projects were devel- oped further at the request of external stake holders. In the second year, 40% of the projects were developed further. In this paper we discuss the reasons as to why this programme is so successful in motivating students to further develop their projects in an entrepreneurial fashion. © 2018 CEUR-WS. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Author Keywords

Project-Based Learning Entrepreneurship education entrepreneurial learning game design team-based learning GGULIVRR Walk-About

Index Keywords

Students Project based learning Industrial research Knowledge management Entrepreneurship education Game design Team-based learning Entrepreneurial learning GGULIVRR Walk-About

Author Affiliations

Faculty of Physics and Applied Informatics, University of Lodz, Lodz, LD, Poland

Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dundalk, Ireland

Instituto Superior Politécnico Gaya, Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto, Portugal

Hogeschool Antwerpen, Antwerpen, VAN, Belgium

Funding & Acknowledgements

European Commission, EC

Innovation Center Technological Accelerator, CIAT, is an EU funded venture fund established by the University of Lodz. In the years 2013-14, CIAT organized several workshops for students in conjunction with the University of Lodz. The main idea of these workshops is to show the participants how they can transfer their ideas from different fields into projects that can apply for external financing.

Uniwersytet Łódzki, UL

Innovation Center Technological Accelerator, CIAT, is an EU funded venture fund established by the University of Lodz. In the years 2013-14, CIAT organized several workshops for students in conjunction with the University of Lodz. The main idea of these workshops is to show the participants how they can transfer their ideas from different fields into projects that can apply for external financing.

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How Participation in An Intensive Project Can Increase 3rd Level Students' Awareness of Entrepreneurship

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