Conference

Bolstering the Business of Liberal Professions

European Commission

Entrepreneurship Education

Overview

• Policy

• Studies

• Peer Learning

• LLP (LdV; Erasmus)

• YiA Programme

• University-Business Forum

• Knowledge Alliances (Pilot)

• HEInnovate - Guiding Framework for Entrepreneurial Universities

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Supporting activities:

• Fostering entrepreneurial mind-sets through education and learning (Communication,2006)

• The Oslo Agenda for Entrepreneurship Education in Europe (2006)

• Study: Entrepreneurship in higher education, especially within non-business studies (2008)

• Pilot Action on Entrepreneurship Education: High-Level Reflection Panels (2009/2010)

• Study: Effects and impact of entrepreneurship programmes in higher education (2012)

• Study: Supporting the entrepreneurial potential of Higher Education (2013)

U-B forums 2008 - 2013

Name of the forum Date Location 1st European Forum on cooperation between higher education

and the Business Community 28/29 Feb 2008 Brussels (BE)

Thematic Forum: 'Continuing Education and Lifelong

Learning' 30 Jun 2008 Brussels (BE)

Thematic Forum: 'Curriculum development and

entrepreneurship' 30/31 Oct 2008 Tenerife (ES)

2nd European Forum on Cooperation between Higher

Education and the Business Community 5/6 Feb 2009 Brussels (BE)

Thematic Forum: 'New Skills for New Jobs – The role of

Higher Education Institutions and Business Co-operation' 22/23 Oct 2009 Dublin (IE)

Thematic Forum: From the Crisis to Recovery - the Role of

Higher Education Institutions and Business Co-operation 2/3 Feb 2010 Brno (CZ)

3rd European University-Business Forum: University-Business

Cooperation for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth 4/5 May 2010 Brussels (BE)

4th European University-Business Forum: University-Business

Cooperation: A strategic partnership to deliver Europe 2020 22/23 Mar 2011 Brussels (BE)

Thematic Forum: Innovating together – Partnerships for an

Entrepreneurial Europe 21/22 Nov 2011 Enschede (NL)

Thematic Forum: Excellence through diversity 16 Nov 2012 Paris (FR)

5th European University-Business Forum: Strategic

partnerships for Innovation and Growth 5/6 Jun 2013 Brussels (BE)

Thematic Forum: University-Business Cooperation – Driving

Innovation and Growth 27 Nov 2013 Warsaw (PL)

HE & HEIs should…

• Develop entrepreneurial mind-sets: creative, flexible, problem-solvers who can cope with uncertainty

• Embed entrepreneurial approaches in teaching across all subject areas

• Be more entrepreneurial in their policies and governance – top down

• Incentives and support for staff to expand activities beyond traditional boundaries

• Systemic cooperation & partnerships with business & other stakeholders in the community

• CIAKL - Cinema and Industry Alliance for Knowledge & Teaching

• EUEN - European University Enterprise Network

• KNOWFACT - European Teaching Factory Paradigm in Manufacturing Education

• E-NSPIRATION - Energy Innovative Training programme

• EDUCCKATE - Education Cultural & Creative Knowledge Alliance for Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs

• EURL3A - European Real Life Learning Lab Alliance

Knowledge Alliances (pilots 2011-2012)

HEInnovate

A self-assessment tool for Higher Education Institutions

• Leadership and Governance • Organisational Capacity, People and Incentives • Entrepreneurship Development in Teaching and Learning • Pathways for Entrepreneurs • University – Business / External Relationships for Knowledge

Exchange

• The Entrepreneurial HEI as an Internationalised Institution

• Measuring the Impact

Seven areas of self-assessment

Date: in 12 pts

ERASMUS+

Total budget: €14.7 billion, 40% budget increase

Erasmus

Grundtvig Leonardo

Comenius

Youth in Action

Erasmus Mundus

Tempus

Alfa Edulink

2007-2013 2014-2020

Erasmus+

1 Learning Mobility

2 Cooperation

3 Policy

support

Jean Monnet

Sport

Date: in 12 pts

ERASMUS+ 2014-2020

Total budget: €14.7 billion, 40% budget increase

Erasmus+

1 Learning Mobility

2 Cooperation

3 Policy

support

Jean Monnet

Sport

2 million higher education students

800,000 staff of all fields

135,000 student & staff exchanges

with partner countries

25,000 scholarships for Joint

Master degree

200,000 Master student loans

25,000 Strategic Partnerships with

125,000 institutions to cooperate in

all fields

150 Knowledge Alliances with

1500 HEIs and enterprises

Date: in 12 pts Education

and Culture

- Traineeships for students in enterprises - Inviting staff from enterprise to teach at HEIs

- Training of academic staff in enterprises

Strategic partnerships - strengthen cooperation between HE and the labour market - real life projects - blended mobility - long term staff mobility

Knowledge Alliances towards more innovation

Erasmus+ & Entrepreneurship

Date: in 12 pts Education

and Culture

Key Action 2

MORE cooperation for more INNOVATION

Strategic partnerships

Cooperation for innovation and best practices

Strategic Partnerships between education, training or youth organisations and other relevant actors

Knowledge Alliances & Sector Skills alliances - large scale structured partnerships between education & training establishments and business

IT-Platforms incl. e-Twinning

Cooperation with third countries and focus on neighbourhood countries

25,000

Knowledge Alliances

and Sector Skills

Alliances

Strategic Partnerships

Capacity Building

Projects

300

1000

Date: in 12 pts

STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

Cross-sectoral cooperation in the fields of Higher Education, VET, School Education and Adult Education

25,000 partnerships 125,000 institutions

Date: in 12 pts Education

and Culture

Develop, test, adapt and implement innovative practices relating to:

joint study programmes and joint curricula, intensive programmes and common ensuring the relevance towards the

needs of the labor market;

project-based transnational collaboration between enterprises and students/staff at higher education institutions to study real life

cases;

pedagogical approaches and methodologies especially those delivering transversal competences, entrepreneurship mindset and

creative thinking, including by introducing multi-, trans-and interdisciplinary approaches, building learning mobility more

systematically into curricula ('embedded mobility') and through a better exploitation of ICT;

HE Strategic

Partnerships

KA2 – Knowledge Alliances

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Business

Higher

Education

Research

Knowledge Alliances: Cooperation and Innovation

Overall objective

Strengthen Europe's innovation capacity

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Foster innovation in higher education, enterprises and socio-economic environment

Objectives

Develop innovative ways of teaching, learning and governance

Stimulate entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial competence of students, academics and company staff

Strengthen the flow and exchange of information and knowledge

Stimulate the co-creation of knowledge

Stimulate the cooperation between higher education institutions and companies

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Activities - A consistent and comprehensive set of activities

Development and implemetation of new learning and teaching methods

Develop and deliver new and innovative study programmes

Organisation of continuing educational programmes and activities with and within companies

Schemes of transversals skills' learning in cooperation with enterprises

Entrepreneurship education in any discipline

Study field related activities which are embedded in curricula

Exchange of students, researchers, teaching and company staff

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Date: in

12 pts

Educatio

n

and

Culture