Facilitating entrepreneurial skills across borders

by Anne Fox

Project

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•Who? What? Why•How?

Building the

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•Key situations•Mobile•Social•Informal•Game elements

Challenge

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•Diversity•Gender•Third country perspective

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Session route map

Section 1

Who, what, why?

Uni-Key Project

Uni-Key Project

• Funding: LLP Erasmus Programme• Duration: October 2011 until October 2013• Co-ordinating organisation: University of Applied Sciences

Fulda• Project consortium: 9 universities, research institutes,

chambers, enterprises, NGOs from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, South Africa, Spain

• Encouraging SME internships• Encouraging entrepreneurial mindset• Uncovering learning through additional

tasks and reflection over and above the intern work

What’s the challenge?

Section 2

Building the course

Uni-Key Context

• Recent graduates• University teachers• Business owners• International student Office administrators

External Quality Board

• EU-based Students seeking foreign SME internship

• Entrepreneurial• Intercultural• Willing to move out of their comfort zone

Meet Giovanni

Target participant

What key learning situations do you think arise when a student goes on a foreign internship in another country?• Use the chat

Key Learning Situations

• Situation: Planning an internship abroad -> turned into a career development exercise

• Situation: Self-organisation during internship, including financial issues -> turned into a problem solving and financial management exercise

• Situation: Confidentiality and ethical challenges -> turned into a good governance exercise

• Situation: Interim evaluation -> turned into an opportunity seizing and intercultural networking exercise (“home ambassador exercise”)

• Situation: Under-challenged and over-stressed -> turned into a self-organisation and goal setting exercise

• Situation: Reluctance and related conflicts -> turned into a strategic self-development and creative thinking exercise

• Situation: Reporting on internship activities -> turned into a valorisation and effective communication exercise (“host ambassador exercise”)

Key Learning Situations

Uni-Key Pilot course modules

Uni-Key Pilot course modules

• Select one element which you want to develop or change. Check how the other elements of the analysis can contribute, support the change/development process of the one element you chose.

Sample task 1

I realized that the thing I had most problems identifying

was "Who supports me?". So I decided to think better about it and to try this

approach.

In one of the boxes of the "mindmap", the one where I listed what I can gain from my experience, I stated that one of the advantages of doing an internship abroad is the possibility of creating a network of

contacts which can be useful for my future career. Reflecting on this point, I realized that I should improve this aspect and work much more on it.

Sample task 2

Section 3

Challenges

In developing the online training the UniKey project faces some challenges such as: ■Developing a course which is relevant across borders and across continents ■Developing a course which both business and universities value ■Creating meaningful tasks which can be completed on top of a fulltime job ■Connecting cohorts of interns to work together even though they may be at different stages of their internship ■Creating tasks which can be completed with less than optimal connectivity ■Increasing the value of the internship to the SME by sharing relevant new developments from the student’s home institution

Challenges

Diversity

Is this an issue?

Third country perspective

Informal Learning

Will you join us?

Second pilot run

Uni-Key Pilot course 2

Start: March 2013End: July 2013 Organisation: 7 modules á 10 days (ca. 3-4 workload

hours) + welcome/feedback moduleLanguage: EnglishFormat: Moderated On-line Course

Thank you!

Let‘s keep in touch:

Anne Foxannef@annefox.eu Twitter: foxdenukwww.uni-key.euhttp://annefox.eu or join the Europemobility Network: www.europemobility.eu

• Game lodge image http://www.flickr.com/photos/instijl/2299283277/sizes/l/

• Godding & Godding http://www.goddingandgodding.com • Informal learning http://youtu.be/gtdHZQ2VXhE Courtesy of Charles Jennings & Fusion-Universalhttp://www.fusion-universal.com

Slides are archived here:http://www.slideshare.net/foxdenuk/facilitating-entrepreneurial-skills-across-borders

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