The University of Antwerp (UAntwerp) has entrepreneurship as an explicit educational priority. It is a member of the Young Universities for the Future of Europe European University Alliance (YUFE). The University sees an urgent need to reform doctoral education to deliver more entrepreneurial graduates equipped with open science competences and to...

Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences (HHN) is a relatively young higher education institution in one of Germany's economically most dynamic regions. Entrepreneurship, responsible entrepreneurship, in particular, is one of HHN’s strategic objectives. In 2017, HHN founded Startklar, a central coordination unit with the mission to strengthen...

Lund University (LU) is located close to a science park in a region with numerous incubators and start-ups in a rather densely populated area. The University uses its strategic location as a source of competitive advantage by strongly collaborating with local established companies, start-ups, student organisations, support services and incubators...

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...

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...

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...

HEInnovate webinar (10th December, 2024, 17:00 – 18:00 CET) ZOOM video conference (click here to register) Since 2013, HEInnovate, a joint initiative of the European Commission and OECD has been supporting individual higher education institutions and higher education systems to assess and develop their innovative and entrepreneurial potential, as...

HEInnovate webinar (5th December, 2024, 15:30 – 16:30 CET) ZOOM video conference (click here to register) Since 2013, HEInnovate, a joint initiative of the European Commission and OECD has been supporting individual higher education institutions and higher education systems to assess and develop their innovative and entrepreneurial potential, as...

HEInnovate webinar (20th November, 2024, 17:00 – 18:00 CET) ZOOM video conference (click here to register) Since 2013, HEInnovate, a joint initiative of the European Commission and OECD has been supporting individual higher education institutions and higher education systems to assess and develop their innovative and entrepreneurial potential, as...

HEInnovate webinar (5th November, 2024, 17:00 – 18:00 CEST) ZOOM video conference (click here to register) Since 2013, HEInnovate, a joint initiative of the European Commission and OECD has been supporting individual higher education institutions and higher education systems to assess and develop their innovative and entrepreneurial potential, as...

HEInnovate webinar (Thursday, 19 September 2024, 17:00 – 18:00 CEST) ZOOM video conference (click here to register) Since 2013, HEInnovate, a joint initiative of the European Commission and OECD has been supporting individual higher education institutions and higher education systems to assess and develop their innovative and entrepreneurial...

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...

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...

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...

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...