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VCP Forum goes digital
Venture creation programs, VCPs, are educational programs where students have to start their own businesses. We have gathered data from over 200 entrepreneurship education programs
10th February 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

Students becoming change agents
In collaboration with NTNUs School of Entrepreneurship, we hosted an Experts in Teamwork village where the students got to develop real life solutions with real impact – becoming change agents.

Engage Participating in New Sustainable Circular Economy Project
Youth Change Makers as Catalysts for a Transition to a Sustainable Circular Economy involves partners from five Nordic countries and it is co-funded by the Nordic Innovation.

The importance of innovation in healthcare
How can we equip nursing students with the right tools to engage in innovation in healthcare? Engage recently hosted a seminar with this specific aim.

Sustainable industrial vegetable production in the north?
Over the course of three weeks, a group of students investigated the possibility of operating a sustainable industrial vegetable production in Mo Industrial Park.

Empowering students to tackle complex problems
How can we empower students to tackle complex problems? At Engage we believe having a basic knowledge of Design Thinking is essential.

Sharing Norwegian entrepreneurship practice in new international book
Engage contributes to a new book by sharing Norwegian entrepreneurship practices in three chapters highlighting the CERN Screening Week, the Blast off Week at Nord and the Venture Creation Program at NTNU.
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