• User stories
Submitted on:
08 Jan 2025

Abstract: Taking inspiration from the Train the Trainers workshop, the EKA University of Applied Sciences (EKA) in Latvia is disseminating HEInnovate’s impact both across the university and across partner universities by holding workshops that introduce participants to the HEInnovate self-assessment and help them form action plans to use at their...

  • User stories
Submitted on:
08 Jan 2025

Abstract: The Faculty of Economics and Business at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek (UNIOS) in Croatia has a history of engaging with HEInnovate—four of the staff have attended the Train the Trainers workshop, and the staff has distributed the HEInnovate self-assessment amongst the faculty, and some lecturers in the Faculty have...

  • User stories
Submitted on:
08 Jan 2025

Abstract: The Nursing School of Lisbon (ESEL) in Portugal is utilising the HEInnovate self-assessment to identify institutional weaknesses as their staff demographics evolve. In addition, after attending Train the Trainers in Brussels, Professor Eulália Novais is incorporating HEInnovate in ESEL’s Blended Intensive Programme event, teaching...

  • Case studies
Submitted on:
09 Aug 2024

This comparative case study focuses on interventions undertaken by two HEIs – Grenoble Institute of Technology and Luleå University of Technology – to address the goal of connecting with the ecosystem and creating effective collaborations with the regional business sector. To connect themselves with their external ecosystem and the regional...

  • Case studies
Submitted on:
09 Aug 2024

Head, hands and heart (HHH) is a recent approach that entrepreneurship educators can use as a framework to design, run and evaluate their courses in a holistic manner. HHH offers the opportunity to evaluate students’ cognitive, practical and emotional capabilities, extending traditional approaches that consider mainly cognitive aspects – knowledge...

  • Case studies
Submitted on:
08 Aug 2024
Country:
Spain

The Autonomous University of Barcelona (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB), founded in 1968, is one of seven higher education institutions located in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. It is centred in the heart of Catalonia, one of Spain’s most dynamic and entrepreneurial regions. UAB is one of the top three universities in Spain. Within the...

  • Case studies
Submitted on:
08 Aug 2024
Country:
Slovakia
Area of discipline:
Business and Economics

At Comenius University Bratislava (CU), the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship offers the course “Development of Entrepreneurial Skills in Cross Generation Teams”. It is a semester-long course where seniors and undergraduate students work together in teams on real-life businesses. The idea is not only to provide instructions but to...

  • Case studies
Submitted on:
08 Aug 2024
Country:
Germany

This introductory chapter provides an update on the Leuphana University of Lüneburg’s approach to entrepreneurship, representing the status at the end of 2023. The original case study, comprising the ensuing chapters 12.1 – 12.6, which remain unchanged, was written in 2015. Since then, Leuphana has developed its entrepreneurial profile further. It...

  • Case studies
Submitted on:
08 Aug 2024
Country:
Denmark

Aalborg University (AAU), established in 1974, emphasises entrepreneurship as a core strategy, offering extensive support and resources to students. The institution is renowned for its problem-based learning approach, fostering independent, real-life problem-solving skills aligned with entrepreneurial competencies. Internationalisation is a...

  • Case studies
Submitted on:
08 Aug 2024

A Junior Enterprise (JE) is a non-profit organisation formed and managed exclusively by university students. Junior Enterprises operate at the local level and are associated with a university. Students in JEs provide services for businesses, institutions and individuals. They are knowledge labs within academic institutions where the latest...

  • Guidance notes

Encouraging and rewarding entrepreneurial behaviour in all staff reinforces the commitment to developing as an entrepreneurial and innovative HEI. There are many ways to provide incentives and rewards for staff, who actively support the higher education institution in advancing its entrepreneurial and innovative agenda. Incentives and rewards...

  • Case studies
Submitted on:
23 Mar 2023

Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) is an Alliance emerging from a European Commission initiative to provide examples of what a European University should look like. YUFE has been active since 2019 and currently consists of nine young universities in Europe and two non-academic partners. They have a strong interest in promoting...

  • Case studies
Submitted on:
23 Mar 2023
Country:
Germany

From 2019 to 2024, the University of Cologne has been receiving considerable state funding for establishing a Gateway Excellence Start-up Centre. A key approach is establishing nine new professorships. Seven of them are “start-up-oriented”, meaning that they deal with business foundation in their teaching, research, and student support activities...

  • Case studies
Submitted on:
23 Mar 2023
Country:
Denmark

Gamification plays a special role in entrepreneurship teaching at Aarhus University and in the EIT Food Master’s programme in Food Systems. Digital & physical games are a speciality of an entrepreneurship professor from Aarhus University. In several courses he has been using both physical and digital games for targeted purposes. Three games played...

  • Case studies
Submitted on:
23 Mar 2023
Country:
Italy

In February 2022, the Free University of Bolzano, in cooperation with NOI Techpark of Bolzano, offered an extra-curricular entrepreneurial programme named “Students & Company Sprint”. It was a five-day event where three companies presented an innovation challenge that student teams had to solve, mentored by experts and scientists. The student teams...