The symposium creates the context through which professors benefit from action-based learning and pedagogical best practices that will ultimately impact students in the classroom. Just as vital for the progress of our programming is the fact that professors will form long-lasting, mutually beneficial relationships with other top-performing academics. Their growing network of educators, many of whom will join the Association for Entrepreneurial Education (AEE,) will become the backbone for future changes to entrepreneurship and innovation driven education throughout the country. Likewise, this ever-growing network is essential for the creation of future consortiums that will apply for European Funding opportunities.
CONTEXT
The Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators program was designed to complement the both the Professor Development program and the University Leadership program by increasing the number of well-trained professors to work within their universities to improve curricula and develop new entrepreneurial education opportunities for students. University administrators have expressed the need for well-trained professors to help them enact changes that would enable universities to develop and deliver entrepreneurial and innovation focused curricula.Â
STRATEGY
RAF works towards fostering entrepreneurship and preparing the future workforce to access high-skilled and value-added jobs. We believe that encouraging the transformation of Romanian University Centers into entrepreneurial hubs will spawn future economic growth. The Global Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators Program aims to provide committed professors with the active support of their university leadership the opportunity to participate in a workshop that will empower them to apply the best practices in entrepreneurship and innovation generating education.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
The program will immediately provide students with enhanced curricula resulting from the workshop. University leadership will have a growing pool of professors to work with, essential for modernizing their future education programming.
- 80 university proffesors that will act as change agents from within the higher education system;
- Universities will have a network of experts they can depend upon to create consortia for EU funding opportunities.
- Greater number of entrepreneurial studies programs for students;
- Support for entrepreneurs and their innovations.