Tag: Sustainability
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Nine start-ups at NTNU receive STUD-ENT
Every year the Norwegian Government, through the Norwegian Research Council (NRC), hand out grants of 1 million NOK each.
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Kompetanse for endring: Bli en tryggere og fremtidsrettet underviser
Hvordan kan vi som undervisere ved Nord universitet bidra til å utdanne robuste, kreative og fremtidsrettede studenter? Svaret starter med oss selv!
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Intraprenørskap i helsevesenet – nytt EVU-tilbud
Videreutdanning for helsepersonell med ambisjoner om endring. Bidra til å forbedre helsetjenestene – uten å bytte jobb!
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EiT Innovation Awards – A glimpse of NTNU students’ unique ability to innovate
The very first EiT Innovation Awards was a measure to pass on the value the students contribute to EiT.
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Innovation in gaming happens whether we like it or not!
Gaming Innovation Chapter 2 at NTNU shows students the possibilities that exist within gaming and how important innovation in gaming is for all of us.
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The Prince Daniel Fellowship visits Trondheim´s innovation environment
By Nicole Linnéa Monavari The Prince Daniel Fellowship is an organization which consists of a partnership between the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences(IVA) and the H.K.H Prince Daniel of Sweden. The main purpose of the partnership is to inspire young people towards entrepreneurship and encourage them to consider the path to start their own…
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NTNU School of Entrepreneurship has been giving superpowers to students for 20 years
By Pernille Svartveit Osmundsen The days were celebrated with speeches, workshops, annual acid test presentations, inspirational talks, sofa chats, food and a banquet. Former students at NSE came from all over Norway to take part in the celebration and to get even more professional input from the innovation environment that grows and grows every year.…
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Engagers’ granted the “Best PDW award” at this year’s 3E Conference
During the 3E Conference in Aarhus in May, some of us from Engage came out victorious, winning the “Best PDW award”. This was a remarkable achievement to celebrate the 10th year of the 3E Conference. For some members of the winning team, it was their first time attending the conference.
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What is an ecosystem within the innovation environment?
Earlier in May, we invited students and educators to the seminar: “Student-driven ecosystems for innovation and entrepreneurship”. This was an academic seminar where we explored the question: “How can we best utilize ecosystems for student innovation in formal entrepreneurship education?” The day was filled with lectures, discussions, and group work. By Pernille Svartveit Osmundsen The…
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Start Sirkulær 2023 – engaging students to focus on circular economy
February 16th to 17th Start Sirkulær 2023 was arranged by Start NTNU and Engage. With the subtitle: “An entrepreneurial journey within the circular economy”, that was exactly what was intended for the participants. The goal was to inspire and engage the students at NTNU to work further with innovation and entrepreneurship within the circular economy.
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“STUD-ENT” kick-off at The Mine – in collaboration with Innovation Norway
The deadline for the annual “STUD-ENT” application is approaching. With that in mind, Engage hosted an event in collaboration with Innovation Norway, where both students at NTNU and employees across different universities and colleges involved in innovation and entrepreneurship, were invited to learn more about the application process.
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Engager Roger Sørheim honoured as “Excellent Teaching Practitioner”
Professor Roger Sørheim was honoured and celebrated as a new Excellent Teaching Practitioner by NTNU. This is the first time a scholar at the department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management got this award.
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Pop-up stores – a practical approach to university studies
The 24-28 October, 8 different student companies popped up in the common area of Nord University of Bodø. Anyone passing had the chance to purchase reflex totebags, winter kits, T-shirts, caps, bracelets, and iced coffee. The pop-up store founders were students of the new course Entrepreneurship and Value Creation, developed by Sølvi Solvoll, Trine Åsheim…
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Kelpinor receives one million NOK from Norinnova and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The NTNU-based start-up company Kelpinor has been awarded one million NOK, after winning the “People’s Prize” and the “Jury’s Innovation Prize” during the accelerator program Arctic Ignite, under the auspices of Norinnova. Ten other entrepreneurial companies from Northern Norway also took part in the competition, and the development grants were awarded on behalf of the…
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Educating Entrepreneurial Researchers
The course “Research-based Innovation” aims to develop the entrepreneurial mindset of PhD students to increase their engagement with practitioners.
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Previous Online Events – Pedagogical Interventions in Entrepreneurship Education
Selected participants are pitching their paper, based on the theme Pedagogical Interventions in Entrepreneurship Education, followed by a digital roundtable discussion.
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Opportunity evaluation in the context of sustainable entrepreneurship
What kind of knowledge, skills and attitudes do entrepreneurs need for understanding the social and ecological aspects of an business opportunity?
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EE Explore: Exploring entrepreneurship educations digitally
EE Explore is a collaboration between Engage and ECSB – European Council for small Business and Entrepreneurship – a virtual platform for research interaction globally about Entrepreneurship Education. We arrange a series of online events about the topic, towards ECSB’s 3E conference in May 2021.
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Creating new opportunities
For the second time, NTNU and Engage offers an online course in entrepreneurship and business development. The course was held for the first time this summer and the experiences have been great.
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Creativity – Can it be taught? And why is it important?
Creativity is a sought-after quality, both at the private level and in working life. What is it? Can it be taught? And why is it important?
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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?
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Trondheim Slush’D 2021: From Startup To Scaleup
Earlier this year, we in the Trondheim Slush’D team set out on the task of identifying the challenges Norwegian Entrepreneurs face, in hope of singling out a concrete problem, an area to target and address.
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How to become an entrepreneur in a week
This book is written for these teachers, program managers and university administrators. By reading this book, they will learn how eleven other European universities decided to solve this task and learn from their experiences.
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Engage Talk Recap: Entrepreneurship and gender
Maiken Nilsen Stensaker and Gry Alsos from Engage address an important theme, entrepreneurship and gender. Together with former entrepreneur Anita Skog from Innovation Norway and entrepreneur Lisbeth Bjerva, they discuss what it looks like today and whether we are on the right track.
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Skapverdi.no – A digital course in Entrepreneurship and Business Development
In the summer of 2020, NTNU will offer an online course in entrepreneurship and business development for laid-off and partially laid-off workers. Read more about it and apply here.
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Engage Talk Recap: Becoming a student entrepreneur
In this Engage Talk we talked about the benefits and opportunities of realizing your business idea while still being a student. Read our recap here.
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The expansion of Spark*
During the past two years Spark* has expanded with units at Nord University and Chalmers University of Technology. Now even more students have the opportunity to pursue their business ideas with help from other students with startup experience.
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Virtual teams – A recap of last weeks Engage talk
Mette Mari Wold Johnsen had a talk with Sigrid Westad Brandshaug, Maiken Spjelkevik and Stina Kånhoff about virtual teams and how they can succeed in our latest Engage Talk.
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Working for more women in entrepreneurship
The main goal for Kvinneprosjektet is to show female students the opportunities within entrepreneurship and inspire them to pursue an entrepreneurial career, regardless of discipline or background.
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Engage Talks – digital concept from Engage
Engage talk is new concept on Facebook that Engage is trying out. The concept is a digital series in the field of entrepreneurship where we highlight current topics that can be useful for professionals, experts and businesses. The goal is to connect these different actors.
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How 3D-printers can help fight the pandemic
In the end of March 2020, the Norwegian health care system expressed that they lacked enormous amounts of protective equipment as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Balance in Modern Entrepreneurship Education
In modern entrepreneurship education, more and more examples of active students and authentic learning occur. Students are no longer being a passive audience, reading about entrepreneurship.
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Engage about challenges and opportunities in an uncertain time
The current COVID-19 pandemic situation has turned life as we know it upside down. We asked the management of Engage how it affects their work and the future role of Engage Centre.
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Entrepreneurship is the ability to turn ideas into action
Innovation and entrepreneurship can be explored and practiced in many different ways. Therefore, we asked three of the brilliant minds at Engage to tell us how they work with innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Stimulating best practice sharing for Entrepreneurship Education
An important part of Engage’s vision is to work towards better practices within Entrepreneurship Education. And in order to do that, we need to combine our own learnings with insights from other experts in Norway and around the world.
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The (Engage) course “Innovation and Change processes” at Nord University Business School
What do you do when you’re starting a new course on Innovation? You’ll need to think like an entrepreneur yourself – sense an opportunity, act on it, and mobilize resources and people to make it happen.
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Students’ entrepreneurial mindset and entrepreneurship education
Entrepreneurial mindset is said to be the way entrepreneurs think and act. To possess the entrepreneurial mindset is portrayed to be key for everyone who acts entrepreneurially.
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The entrepreneurial nurse
Global healthcare needs continuous quality improvement, increased efficiency and enhanced safety for patients and employees. Entrepreneurial nurses may create useful and applicable solutions to these challenges. By exploring new ideas, nurses may create value for society, saving lives while they’re at it.
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Students’ roles in entrepreneurial ecosystems at universities
Students are an important part of any university’s entrepreneurial output. How do students contribute to the ecosystem at the university and the university’s regional ecosystem?
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Norwegian forum for Entrepreneurship Education
In October 2019, Engage hosted the first Norwegian forum of Entrepreneurship Education. These two days were targeted to both creating a network, but also to inspire and provide new tools for educators to use in their classrooms.
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Hoping that today´s crises lead to new opportunities
Iselin Kristine Mauseth Steira thinks that innovation and entrepreneurship is extra important in times like these.
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How does Start NTNU adapt to the Corona crisis?
What the leader of Start NTNU, Eskil Schjølberg, has to say about the Corona crisis and how they are planning to continue their work.
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Creating Creative Business Under Uncertainty
The audience is sitting in their woolen pajamas, eating mackerel in tomato sauce, and ready to give you their money