Entrepreneurship Education Ecosystems in Engineering and Technology (E4T)
Annotatsiya
Vibrant entrepreneurship ecosystems have developed within the CLUSTER Consortium (www.cluster.org) universities with significant contributions to European and global startups and entrepreneurial initiatives. CLUSTER is a consortium of 12 top engineering and technology universities in Europe and 6 top-level associated members from other continents. A subset of the CLUSTER members is involved in the E4T (Entrepreneurship Education Ecosystems in Engineering and Technology) Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project (2017-1-SE01-KA203-034536) which develops interactive programs for our students to participate in piloting and co-creation of a joint program ingrained within these ecosystems. The overall aim of the study is to provide more graduates in engineering with entrepreneurial ambition, culture and skills, and to draw on the entrepreneurial ecosystems as a platform for inspiration, as follows: 1) Develop models for ingraining entrepreneurship education into specific engineering and technology M.Sc. curricula at the partner universities; 2) Drive new course concepts into the policy actions of the partnering universities at the level of the Faculty/Dean/Programme director/individual teacher; 3) Build a network for Entrepreneurship education by implementing a pilot between the CLUSTER Universities within their innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems; 4) Share best practices for promoting hands-on-entrepreneurial skills within accelerators, local hubs, technology platform and student - driven start-up activities; 5) Piloting of the educational ecosystem network in collaboration with a dynamic set of stakeholders including academic institutions, companies, local, regional and national agencies and most importantly our students as co-creators of their education, 6) Create university-level and transnational training programs for teachers and professors to integrate elements promoting the development of entrepreneurial skills via specific engineering/technology/ science disciplines.