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This document summarizes information presented at a workshop on entrepreneurial universities and entrepreneurial learning held at University College Ghent. The workshop discussed ways that University College Ghent stimulates creativity and entrepreneurial behavior among students, staff, startups and SMEs. This includes offering free courses on entrepreneurship, having students work on projects for startups and SMEs, and organizing business contests and networking events. The workshop also covered international partnerships and projects between University College Ghent and other European universities to support cross-border entrepreneurship and exchange of best practices. Finally, the workshop discussed the importance of university-business cooperation to generate an entrepreneurial culture and some of the challenges and opportunities involved.
Workshop euen usasbe
- 2. USASBE Workshop Entrepreneurial Universitiesand Entrepreneurial Learning
- 5. Biggest student cityof Belgium 65 000 students
- 8. University College Ghent Establishedin 1995 located in Flanders (6 million inhabitants) – Belgium - Europe The largest University College of Belgium (18 000 students)
- 9. 18.000 students 2.196 membersof staff 8 campuses in Ghent and Aalst 380 research projects 150 doctoral projects Multisectoral: 10 areas of study – 8 faculties Proefhoeve Bottelaere (Research Farm) Centre for Entrepreneurship Homebrewed “Bijloke-beer” Facts & Figures Established in 1995 Situated in Flanders (about 6 million inhabitants)
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- 12. Do you stimulatecreativity or entrepreneurial behaviour?
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- 33. Mission • Stimulate creativityand entrepreneurial behaviour: – Students – Staff – Candidate starters – SME’s
- 35. History ’02 VUMAS business game STEPproject ‘04 Entrepreneurial Skills ‘06 bach.- / masterthesis ’08 Free course “Entrepreneurship” ‘08 Centre for Entrepreneurship
- 37. Business Administration 4 faculties 4associated faculties
- 38. Entrepreneurial University • Entrepreneurialawareness • University-business cooperation
- 39. Students working onprojects of starters and SME’s
- 41. Triangle relation Entrepreneur Student Demand? Feasibility studie Marketingplan … Performance: Research BusinessPlan … Support Guide Mediate Coach
- 43. Facilitate creativity sessions Andbrainstorms
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- 47. Organise free infosessionsfor entrepreneurs and students
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- 50. Organise bootcamps forstudents and young entrepreneurs
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- 54. Yearly organise an InternationalEntrepreneurship Seminar http://internationalentrepreneurialseminar.wordpress.com/
- 55. Offer free workfacility
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- 59. European trend 1: Tomake higher education institutions more entrepreneurial
- 60. How do yousee ‘the Entrepreneurial University’ of the future?
- 61. Brainstorm workshop Trendtool • tostart the discussion and to open up our minds towards innovative solutions • Possible interesting comparisons between Europe, the United States and other cultures? 18-3-2022 62
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- 63. European Trend 2: Internationalorientation (at least within Europe itself)
- 64. How important areinternational partnerships to your institution?
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- 66. Knowledge center toEntreprise Services through Students
- 67. KESS Characteristics 12 Partners: HogeschoolGent (project-leader), Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen, VOKA Kamer van Koophandel Oost-Vlaanderen, VOKA Kamer van Koophandel West-Vlaanderen, ERSV West-Vlaanderen, Groupe Sup de Co Amiens, Université Catholique de Lille, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Institute Polytechnique La Salle Beauvais, Chambre de Commerce Franco-Belge, Ville de Marcq-en-Baroeul, Amiens Métropole Total budget: 1.164.000 euro Financial support: INTERREG IV France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen, Oost-Vlaanderen, West-Vlaanderen, Picardie Timeperiod: 01-10-2011 until 01-10-2014
- 68. KESS Aims • Contributionto the economic growth of both regions by cross-border student services, like internships, to enterprises; • Realisation of a structural cooperation between higher education institutions, representative organisations for business and enterprises from both regions; • Creation of opportunities for social and cultural links; • Improving the student services to enterprises by the creation of multidisciplinary teams of students, teachers and entrepreneurs; • Improving the exchange of knowledge cross-border • Improving entrepreneurship education in a cross-border context • Alignment of demand and supply of the labourmarket cross-border
- 69. European University EnterpriseNetwork (EUEN)
- 70. EUEN Characteristics • Pilotproject • 10 Partners: University partners: Coventry University (Project Coordinator), Hogeschool Ghent, Fachhochschule Münster, University of Turku Business partners: Acerta, Banco Santander, Hewlett-Packard Limited, Microsoft Worldwide - Education Strategy Group Network partners: European Business and Innovation Centre Network, National Centre for Entrepreneurship Education • Total budget: 495.982 euro • Financial support: EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General for Education and Culture • Timeperiod: 01-11-2011 until 31-05-2013
- 71. EUEN aims • EUENbuilds up on the established concept of University Enterprise Networks, led by the National Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and the delivery of the Innovation UEN by Coventry University. • EUEN will establish partnerships between enterprise and entrepreneurial universities and multi-national businesses aimed at making a substantial impact on long term competitiveness in both sectors. • EUEN aims to enhance entrepreneurship opportunity by: – shaping the leadership in education institutions – building the capability to deliver entrepreneurship through education by the professional development of the academic and support staff
- 72. Interregional dissemination ofthe business concept of the Centre for Entrepreneurship
- 73. Characteristics • 7 Partners: HogeschoolGent (project coordinator), Hogeschool Zuyd, Université du Littoral côte d’opale (ULCO), University of the Algarve, Jade University Wilhelmshaven, Coventry University, Mälardalens högskola • Total budget: 45.147,35 euro • Financial support: European Fund for Regional Development • Time Period: 1-12-2010 until 30-11-2012
- 74. Aims • Interregional knowledgeexchange on entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurship support • Setting up an international network on Entrepreneurial Education • Bringging together students of University College Ghent with peers of other European universities, with the goal of setting up business plans together and facing intercultural opportunities. • Lower barriers for entrepreneurs willing to trade internationally • Declining the gap in between education and entrepreneurship • Create a short but intensive 3ECTS program for foreign students, in order to position the Centre for Entrepreneurship Internationally
- 75. Do you closelycooperate with Business? - Research - Internships - Funding / Sponsorship - Partnership projects - Others?
- 76. But… … How toinstall Entrepreneurial Behavior in HEI? …How to install Entrepreneurial Behavior in Business?
- 77. How setting upstructural university-business colaborations? What constraints University-Business collaboration, and how to overcome this?
- 78. European Trend 3: Moreuniversity – business cooperation, in order to generate an entrepreneurial culture
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- 80. European University EnterpriseNetwork (EUEN)
- 81. EUEN Characteristics • Pilotproject • 10 Partners: University partners: Coventry University (Project Coordinator), Hogeschool Ghent, Fachhochschule Münster, University of Turku Business partners: Acerta, Banco Santander, Hewlett-Packard Limited, Microsoft Worldwide - Education Strategy Group Network partners: European Business and Innovation Centre Network, National Centre for Entrepreneurship Education • Total budget: 495.982 euro • Financial support: EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General for Education and Culture • Timeperiod: 01-11-2011 until 31-05-2013
- 82. EUEN European University EnterpriseNetwork • European Commission Pilot-Project • Knowledge Alliances – Stimulating entrepreneurship inside education – Stimulating university-business collaboration • 8 European universities (UK, BE, GER, SE, SP, NL, PO) • 8 (European) businesses (Microsoft, HP, Acerta, etc..) • Explorative project – searching for new ways of implementing entrepreneurship 18-3-2022 83
- 83. EUEN aims • EUENbuilds up on the established concept of University Enterprise Networks, led by the National Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and the delivery of the Innovation UEN by Coventry University. • EUEN will establish partnerships between enterprise and entrepreneurial universities and multi-national businesses aimed at making a substantial impact on long term competitiveness in both sectors. • EUEN aims to enhance entrepreneurship opportunity by: – shaping the leadership in education institutions – building the capability to deliver entrepreneurship through education by the professional development of the academic and support staff
- 84. EUEN actions WP1: Shapingthe education environment through collaborative interventions with institutional leaders to stimulate entrepreneurship in staff, students and graduates WP2: Application of collaborative learning opportunities through business-education-student projects WP3: Transfer of good practice from the pilot to the wider European community WP4: Project management ensuring delivery of outputs on time and to budget
- 85. EUEN actions and results •Leader’s Forums: discussion between leader’s of HEI and business – Institutional top-level awareness – Institutional change – Large ROI (small investment) – Top Down Approach 18-3-2022 86
- 86. EUEN actions and results •Staff Development Program: Creating entrepreneurial behavior and awareness whithin teachers – Most teachers start very entrepreneurial – Structural constraints limit entrepreneurial behavior – Student-centered approach scares teachers – Need for incentives (rewards in time or resources) – Entrepreneurial teachers create entrepreneurial students? 18-3-2022 87
- 87. EUEN actions and results •University-Business collaboration – Acerta (Enterprise Counter, HR services) – Different cultures HEI and business – Need for common language – Need for accountmanagers at HEI – Need for business approaching strategy at HEI – Need for more entrepreneurship inside businesses 18-3-2022 88
- 88. EUEN Conclusion • Entrepreneurial University –Loosen structures! More space for entrepreneurial behavior – Top down and Bottom up – Teachers have a central role and are katalyst – Incentives must be build in the structures – Allocation of budget – Mission statement 18-3-2022 89
- 89. EUEN Conclusion • University-Business Collaboration(UBC) – Cultural exploration between the two – More strategic approach for collaboration – Entrepreneurial behavior is needed whithin both HEI and businesses – More need for resources to stimulate real encounters (eg. Leader’s Forum) 18-3-2022 90
- 90. Centre for Entrepreneurship Workshop •Best or worst practices • Every participant gets max.10 minutes to discuss a best or worst practice from his own experience 18-3-2022 91
- 91. Summary of theWorkshop Eventual Remarks?
- 92. Interested in joiningour network?
- 93. Be entrepreneurial beforeit is too late!
- 94. www.hogent.be/centrumvoorondernemen OR FIND US ONFACEBOOK: Centrum voor Ondernemen (CvO)
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- 97. Possibilities to cooperate •Online network • Further meetings • Trade missions • International business contest • Exchange students • Erasmus agreements • Involve students in each others workshops • Trendspot-tool.com • International Seminar • Staff/teacher exchanges • Staff Devolpment Programme
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Editor's Notes
- #6 Ghent is one of the most cosy cities in Belgium, close to Brussels, Bruges and Antwerp. Counts 55000 students and so is the biggest city of Belgium
- #8 Next to that, Ghent is a very dynamic city, with lot’s of cultural activities for any ages
- #9 our most important campuses of the University College Ghent are situated in this beautiful city.
- #19 =>Ondernemingszin als basisopdracht
- #40 Wij zijn niet de enigen die dit sterke team vormen, maar doen hiervoor ook beroep op de studenten binnen de Hogeschool Gent
- #43 Kennis te laten maken met het werkveld tijdens de opleiding. Netwerk. Ervaring. Of een andere ondernemende opdracht van een bedrijf of een organisatie?
- #44 Door creativiteitssessies aan te bieden aan startende ondernemers en ondernemende studenten en docenten
- #45 Door ze nieuwe technieken aan te leren om tot goeie concepten te komen, waarvoor we vb onze eigen Trendspot ontwikkelden
- #48 Door hen te informeren over wondernemende topics tijdens de infosessies voor ondernemers, docenten en studenten die we organiseren
- #49 En door hen de zelfstandigheid te geven en toch ook een teamgevoel te creëren waarin zij meedenken aan nieuwe initiatieven om het ondernemen bij de rest van de studenten te brengen
- #50 Door het thema ondernemen naar de campus te brengen en de studenten uit te nodigen op onze business cafés
- #54 Door wedstrijden te organiseren, die de studenten en ondernemers aanzetten tot creativiteit en ondernemerschap
- #56 Door infrastructuur aan te bieden van waaruit studenten een zaak kunnen opstarten en waar ondernemers en studenten die samen aan een project werken kunnen vergaderen, etc.
- #57 We bieden studenten graag de mogelijkheid aan om eens van achter die boeken te komen en in het kader van hun opleiding (vak! stage, bachelorproef,) zoals het nieuwe keuzevak “ondernemen” kennis te maken met ondernemingszin!
- #58 Partly funded by European and Flemish Funds, partly funded by the University College Ghent and since recently structural funded for 4 FTE by the University College Ghent
- #62 Communication, mobility
- #77 Communication, mobility