Fostering Entrepreneurship for a sustainable and innovative BioEconomy
▶Summary
Bioeconomy is a key strategy for the European Union, and a pillar of its sustainability agenda. Its deployment requires a paradigm shift in training curricula and pedagogical practices to equip st...
▶Objectives
Bioeconomy is a key strategy for the European Union, and a pillar of its sustainability agenda. Its deployment requires a paradigm shift in training curricula and pedagogical practices to equip students and lifelong learners with sustainable entrepreneurship skills. Building on the success of an ongoing Strategic Partnership, FOEBE+ aims to enhance a tailor-made study path to train a wider audience of bioeconomy entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs and guide them in their entrepreneurship journey.
▶Activities
Project activities include the enhancement and adaptation of the current FOEBE entrepreneurship curriculum to reach out to intrapreneurs and lifelong learners. A digital e-learning campus will be set up to share the resulting teaching modules, which will be complemented by an in-person Bioeconomy Challenge to connect nascent entrepreneurs with the entrepreneurial innovation ecosystem at each partner HEI. The FOEBE+ programme will be tested with 3 successive learner cohorts.
▶Impact
An aggregate flux of 245 students and LL learners will be trained in project years 2 and 3, with a target of 10 of them being further coached in their entrepreneurial journey. The insertion of FOEBE+ in the core training curricula of partner HEIs and in the Open Bioeconomy University will ensure its sustainability in the long run. Through its flexible approach, FOEBE+ will leverage the potential of students and intrapreneurs to innovate and foster the transfer of their ideas to the market.