• Webinar
Event date:
27 Apr 2023

This month’s HEInnovate webinar “Deep Tech in Higher Education ” will take place on Thursday, the 27th April at 5pm CEST . In this webinar we will explore the EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative ( https://eit.europa.eu/our-activities/deep-tech-talent-initiative ) as well as the Pledge for Deep Tech Talents ( https://www.eitdeeptechtalent.eu/the-pledge...

  • Expert profile
Affiliation:
University of Pisa
Position:
Rector’s Delegate for the Promotion of Entrepreneurial Culture and Innovation, Director of the "Contamination Lab”

Alessio is a Full Professor of Agribusiness, Rural Development and Branding at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment of the University of Pisa. His professional experience includes coordinating several Erasmus+ funded projects ( The Wine Lab , FoodBiz , ON-IT ) and working as a researcher in many national and international research...

  • Expert profile
Affiliation:
Faculty of Economics, J.J. Strossmayer University in Osijek
Position:
Associate Dean

Suncica Oberman Peterka is Associate Dean for Environmental Cooperation, Projects and International Cooperation at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek, J.J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, Croatia. She is a full professor and teaches various courses on entrepreneurship and strategic management at undergraduate, master and doctoral levels. She...

  • 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...

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

Since 2015, life science students from Vilnius University (VU) have participated very successfully in the iGEM innovation competition. At iGEM, an annual event in Boston, US, selected student teams from universities around the world compete with innovative solutions in synthetic biology. The main driver for participation was a renowned professor...

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

Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” offers several study programmes at different degree levels that combine sustainability and entrepreneurship: A bachelor’s programme in Biomanagement and Sustainable Development, a master’s programme in Sustainable and Responsible Governance, and a continued education programme in sustainable leadership. The...

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

The University of Iceland offers a Master’s programme in Innovation and Business Development which is run by the Faculty of Business Administration in cooperation with the Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science (IEMECS). Six of the programme’s courses are available as modules for other students from other...

  • Case studies
Submitted on:
23 Mar 2023
Country:
Finland
Area of discipline:
Engineering

Aalto University’s profile and entrepreneurial approach Aalto University is a national Finnish project. According to the University President’s foreword in the institution’s strategy paper, Aalto has “a national mission to strengthen the innovative capacity of Finland through first-class research, art and education”. [1] Further to its societal...

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

ESSEC Business School (French: École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales) was founded in 1907 and is recognised as one of the leading business schools in the world. ESSEC has two campuses in Paris, France (Cergy-Pontoise and La Défense), as well as one each in Singapore and Rabat in Morocco. ESSEC has approximately 7,400 students...

  • Case studies
Submitted on:
23 Mar 2023
Country:
Norway
Area of discipline:
Not associated to a discipline

The award-winning Norwegian Entrepreneurship programme, Gründerskolen, is a Norwegian academic cooperation programme involving all universities and several university colleges in Norway, coordinated by the Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Oslo. The programme has received a prize for ‘Best quality in higher education’ from the...

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

VIA University College - Leadership and Governance VIA University College Denmark was formed in 2008 as a merger between 6 established education and research centres. VIA is a highly applied university, with established links to the public and private sectors and a range of education programmes covering traditional and emerging professions...