PREFACE Search Conference
Report from proceedings in Halmstad, Sweden
September 25th – 26th 2003 |
Summary
60 university teachers, students, entrepreneurs and representatives from business organisations and career advisors from eleven European countries met up for a search conference
September 25th – 26th in Halmstad, Sweden. As partners in PREFACE project, Leonardo da Vinci programme, they will find
a model for supporting female engineer students to start up companies based upon their studies.
During the two days the participants shared their experiences to give a European
overview over the situation today. They also came up with best practises from
their own countries. These experiences were shared in the partnership, and their
reports are gathered in a separate document. Do European students see common
obstacles for starting up companies in university context? Are there common
views from entrepreneurs in the different countries? Transactional groups of
students, university teachers, career advisors, entrepreneurs and business organisations
compared their experiences. They could identify common needs like
· an IT-based map for Student’s Entrepreneurship providing tools,
skills and support to students.
· Learning modules on the net, but also in courses at university.
· Pedagogical forms, that are suitable for entrepreneurship.
· That companies can be involved – and perhaps contracted –
in university context and provide role models and working life experience.
A common theme in the discussions was that the individual entrepreneur always
has to balance private life and job situation. When female students are encouraged
to become entrepreneurs this is an important fact to raise – how can I
match entrepreneurship with family life? Encouragement of women students’
companies can be seen in terms of diversity management as means of regional
and national growth.
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