Parallel session I: Ideas and plans for the development of joint study programmes (introduction: Sergej Lugović MSc. Polytechnic of Zagreb, moderators Jasmina Skočilić, Agency for Mobility and EU Programs, prof. Ranko Biondić, Ph.D., Faculty of Geotechnics, University of Zagreb , Vladimir Mrša Ph.D., Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb );

1. Removing Obstacles for Cross-border
Cooperation (ROCCO)
Sergej Lugović
Zagreb University of Applied Science
slugovic@tvz.hr
https://twitter.com/sergejlugovic/
Parallel session I: Ideas and plans for the development of joint study programmes
(introduction: Sergej Lugović MSc., MBA, Polytechnic of Zagreb, moderators Jasmina
Skočilić, Agency for Mobility and EU Programs, prof. Ranko Biondić, Ph.D., Faculty of
Geotechnics, University of Zagreb , Vladimir Mrša Ph.D., Faculty of Food Technology
and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb )

2. Problem Case
How to teach so many people in short
period of time?
With more then 460 Universities and High Schools in 8
Danube region countries?

3. Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
European Union, September 2013. .

7. Entrepreneurship and Systems theory
• the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources you currently
control - Howard Stevenson, HBS
• The meaning of the somewhat mystical expression, "the whole is
more than the sum of parts" is simply that constitutive
characteristics are not explainable from the characteristics of
isolated parts. The characteristics of the complex, therefore,
compared to those of the elements, appear as "new" or
"emergent.”, Bertalanffy, General Systems Theory, 1968
• The mechanism of an organization is found at the level below, its
purpose at the level above, Joseph Needham (1937)

8. Four Key Elements to Educating an
Entrepreneur
• Knowledge - comfort to go into a new situation, figure out what
needs to be known, and learning it.
• Skills - heavy reading, encourage students to work with a team of
people to get that work done, grade will come from class
participation, rewards for making point quickly and effectively
• Alternatives - cases that shows different kinds of people in various
industries who succeed and fail in creating and managing start-
ups.
• Attitude – focus on customers competitively superior value and
students could safely forge ahead in the face of experts and
experienced people who tell them their venture will not work
http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2011/06/15/harvards-lion-of-entrepreneurship-packs-up-his-office/#63d4af0d50fa

9. The Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan, measures
of interests (3 out of 10 related to education)
• Entrepreneurial behavior, skills and mindsets to be
embedded in national/regional curricula at all
levels – primary, secondary, vocational, higher
education and non-formal education and training,
alongside integration of work-based teaching and
learning in all disciplines and curricula
• All young people to have one entrepreneurial
experience
• Targeted training, finance, internationalization
support programs for high growth potential SMEs

10. Entrepreneurship Action Plan 2020 is
based on three pillars:
• developing entrepreneurial education and training;
• creating the right business environment;
• role models and reaching out to specific groups.
To do so;
– Education should be brought to life through practical
experiential learning models and experience of real-world
entrepreneurs
– Appropriate ecosystems should be created with aim to enable
leverage and piloting new technologies, access to finance for
startups and promote cross border activities
– Change in the perception of entrepreneurs through practical
and positive communication should be promoted (through
meeting students with entrepreneurs, case studies, lectures,
workshops and company open days)

11. Our three main variables as “growth
engine”
• One is growth opportunity in IT and Internet business,
• Another is importance of education and regional
collaboration
• Third one is entrepreneurship
• Purpose of that engine is to boost entrepreneurship skills
among engineers.
• Such “growth engine” is supporting EU strategic priorities
for Danube region, primary Priority Area 09 “Investing in
People and Skills” but also contributing to Knowledge
Society (PA07) and Competitiveness (PA8)

12. Possible solution => Master Degree that
emphasizing role of entrepreneurship in
engineering education
• Collaborative practical learning with real world
entrepreneurship experience
• Extensive participation of students in regional technology
entrepreneurship ecosystem (startup companies,
accelerators, incubators, venture capital, knowledge
transfer organizations and leading global technology
vendors)
• Creation of students’ technology ventures that could be
used as role models that could be promoted toward
different stakeholders changing perception of technology
entrepreneurs and promoting potentials that could be
generated

13. Question is,
• how this event (paid by tax payers money) will
contribute to citizens better life?
• Why we are doing it?
• With who ?
• And when?
• What will come along the way...