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VCP Forum: innovative teaching through the pandemic
What is the topic that can connect 35 educators, from 18 teaching institutions, across five different continents, into one zoom call? The answer is Venture Creation Programs, also known as VCP.
16th April 2021
Five key elements of Entrepreneurship Education – Engage’s Educational Framework
We all want to form our students to be able to handle situations they may face in their professional life. At Engage, we focus on developing our students’ Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset, for our students to handle changing circumstances in an uncertain world. But how can we stimulate these aims through our education?
18th December 2020
Educating Entrepreneurial Researchers
The course “Research-based Innovation” aims to develop the entrepreneurial mindset of PhD students to increase their engagement with practitioners.
3rd December 2020
Reflection as a practice in Entrepreneurship Education
Reflective thinking could help our students learn more by connecting their experiences with theory and incorporate their learning into future tasks. Why and how can we integrate reflective thinking into our educational activities?
6th January 2021
News
Cataly(c)st as a project example of how we work goal-oriented with the UN Sustainable Goals
Cataly(c)st aims to bring best practices from the research world, the maker communities, the youth movements and industry into one strong initiative.
Sustainability in Engage
Sustainability – in the context of Engage – means ensuring that change agents have the right tools and competency in order to make conscious choices towards sustainable development.
Giving social entrepreneurs an toolbox for internationalisation
How can we equip social entrepreneurs with the tools needed to succeed internationally in a time where travel is restricted? At Engage, we’re exploring new ways to educate during the pandemic.
SUPER: Student-active learning through “wicked problems”
To enable students to tackle the complex challenges of tomorrow, we will need to change the educational methods of how students learn. The project SUPER will look at how student-active learning can make students better equipped to tackle "wicked problems".
Facilitating digital mobility in international exchange programs
How can educational institutions adapt to the increasing difficulty of international travel? We’ve taken a deep dive, and looked into how a group of institutions used innovation to combat the issue.
Entrepreneurship education in higher music education
In a world that deeply values musical products, but are used to not paying for it - how can musicians secure a livelihood? They need to learn entrepreneurial skills.
Exercises
Entering the War Room
Entrepreneurs need to make decisions fast, in an unknown environment, without knowing all the answers. This is a group exercise simulating a board meeting where students are forced to make decisions together. If the board doesn’t give clear guidelines, what will the management do?
17th November 2020
Fast-track problem-based idea creation
To come up with good ideas, we need to understand the problem we'd like solve. This exercise is a fast-paced idea creation process, where developing a good problem understanding is the core and starting point.
17th November 2020
The Green Thing
Introduce your students to idea creation and business model development using the Business Model Canvas, while you stay in control and guide them past common misconceptions with the Canvas.
16th December 2020
Relevante aktører og verdiskapning
Hvilke aktører kan være interessert i og få verdi fra prosjektene dere jobber med? En metode for å hjelpe studentene med å kartlegge interessenter for et problem eller en idé.
16th December 2020