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This CityLabs Lightning Bites series features short, impactful talks from diverse perspectives, addressing the critical challenges and opportunities in promoting entrepreneurship education.

SESSIONS:

Monday May 12:

• 13:00-13:30: Vivian Peuker Steinhäuser, Ruhr University Bochum 

  Spreading entrepreneurship across all 21 RUB faculties

  
  

  Entrepreneurial mindsets and skills are essential for driving innovation and economic growth. However, integrating entrepreneurship education across all 21 faculties of the RUB is a major challenge. To address this, we have developed the Technology Entrepreneurship Module, a scalable platform that delivers entrepreneurship content to students from different academic backgrounds. This module ensures that all students gain access to fundamental entrepreneurship knowledge and develop the necessary skills to apply it in their respective fields.

  Through this initiative, students who complete two selected faculty-specific modules (10 ECTS) as well as the 5 ECTS Technology Entrepreneurship Module will be eligible for the RUB Entrepreneurship Certificate. This certificate serves as an official recognition of their entrepreneurial skills, enhancing their career prospects and their ability to innovate within their disciplines.

  The Technology Entrepreneurship Module helps to answer questions such as “How do we turn breakthrough technological ideas into successful ventures?” “Do crises always have to be the catalyst for innovation?” “What methods can help to align new technologies with market needs?” The module combines technology and innovation management methodologies with real-world case studies, delivered through engaging video seminars. Students will learn the fundamentals of technology entrepreneurship, the process of turning ideas into viable business models, and strategic tools for technology assessment and planning.

  
  
  
  

• 13:30-14:00:  Agnieszka Kurczewska, Agata Matuszewska-Kubicz, University of Lodz:  
  From Challenges to Solutions: Student Entrepreneurship at Ideathon UniLodz. 

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• How do we support student entrepreneurship at the University of Lodz? We have organised the Ideathon UniLodz for three years. During the Ideathon, we invite students and PhD candidates to create solutions to key social and environmental challenges identified by external stakeholders - companies, institutions and municipal authorities. Participants develop solutions in the area of sustainable development, and at the same time develop their creativity and teamwork. Join us for a presentation on how we organise the Ideathon UniLodz in detail.

Tuesday May 13: 

• 13:00-13:30: Arantza Arruti Gomez, University of Deusto: 
  Wait, you said teacherpreneur?
  
  

• Since 2007, when the Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (EntreComp) had not yet been published, one of my passions has been working to help future teachers (pre-service teachers) develop their entrepreneurial competence. 

  My goal was both simple and challenging to achieve, but not impossible: to contribute to the development of future teacherpreneurs. For me, training entrepreneurial individuals has become a wonderful journey filled with experiences, networking, local and international projects, publications, and people who have made entrepreneurship an essential part of my professional and personal life.

  In this context, I have personally experienced what it means to be an intra(teacher)preneur. I think that I have developed the ability to turn ideas into action. This means that I have developed creativity, perseverance, and self-efficacy; I have mobilised resources and others; I have developed sustainable thinking; and I have taken the initiative, planned and coped with risk.

  But above all, I have seized opportunities to train and give visibility to teacherpreneurs. Do not forget that entrepreneurship is not only about starting businesses but about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit. Furthermore, it can also be applied in schools and universities at different levels and degrees. There we have, for instance, EnterCompEdu. Do you know it?

  If you are interested in learning more about what kind of projects, educational initiatives, or practices I have been involved in, this is the right place. The best part? All these actions can be transferred to other professional fields. Are you in? 

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• 13:30-14:00:  Mihaela Mikić, University of Zagreb: 
  Strengthening Entrepreneurial Education Through Student Teamwork

  
  

  This lecture explores how student teamwork enhances entrepreneurial education by fostering collaborative problem-solving, diverse perspectives, and real-world skill development. It examines key factors driving team success. Attendees will gain insights into leveraging teamwork as a tool for innovation while navigating the complexities of virtual collaboration. Practical tips for educators to optimize team dynamics, foster engagement, and sustain motivation in digital settings will be highlighted.
  
  

Wednesday May 14:  

• 13:00-13:30: Camilla Norberg Hansen, Malmö University:
  Societal Impact Lab

  
  

  Societal Impact Lab is an idea development lab for researchers at Malmö University. The lab aims to promote researchers’ work with utilisation, aiming for their research results to be implemented and disseminated in society for sustainable long-term societal benefit.  

  The content of the lab is tailored and adapted to the researchers and the maturity and form of the projects. During the lab days, the focus is primarily on individual idea development, interspersed with advice, co-creation activities, workshops, guest lectures, and study visits relevant to the utilisation process.

  
  

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• 13:30-14:00:  Gillian Barrett, University College Cork:
  How can our students develop an entrepreneurial mindshift?

  
  

  In early 2023, University College Cork (UCC) recognised an opportunity to ‘open’ up entrepreneurship education – regardless of discipline, year of study, postgrad or undergrad – with the goal of offering an inclusive entrepreneurship education initiative for all students. This ‘Lightning Bite’ will feature insights and learnings from UCC’s University Wide (UW) entrepreneurship module entitled “Developing an entrepreneurial mindshift”, an experiential 5 credit (ECTS) module. 

  Dr Gillian Barrett will share how UCC implemented (using exercises and activities) this simple, scalable and novel initiative to help all students across all programmes to build entrepreneurial self-efficacy, confidence, resilience, and transversal skills (creativity, complex problem solving, critical thinking). Students are supported and encouraged to discover their inner entrepreneur, to develop much needed entrepreneurial skills and encouraged to change the world by solving global problems, improving society, making a positive impact, and contributing to their (future) workplace.  Upon completion, students are introduced to other entrepreneurial pathways and motivated to implement their entrepreneurial goals.