“Young people are tomorrow’s entrepreneurs!” This is the leitmotiv used by an increasing number of private and public organisations promoting entrepreneurship from the beginning of the university cycle. In 2006, the conference on “Entrepreneurship Education in Europe” launched by the European Commission led to the Oslo Agenda: 50 good practices to encourage entrepreneurship training. 3 years ago, the Université Catholique de Lille created an entrepreneurship institute in order to give its 20,000 students the desire to become entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is indeed a cross-disciplinary skill electronics engineers, as well as more sales-oriented profiles, can develop. In Ireland, the University of Limerick Business School makes entrepreneurship an integral part of all of its training courses. Students are aware that setting-up or taking-over a company is also a potential career path. Throughout their studies, junior business or business set-up competitions provide an excellent taste of future enterprises. Entrepreneurship training is also a means of bringing the 2 worlds of education and business together. The “Vis ma vie” [Live my life] operation, adapted from a television programme by the “Catho” Lille, offers teachers and company directors the opportunity to share a day in their professional lives. This experience is very instructive for both partners in the team and aims to instil a better adequacy between university studies and the reality of the working world… this way the subject of “entrepreneurship” is able to offer more than a purely theoretical outlook.

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For more information :
KEMMY Business School , Université de Limerick (Irlande)
Institut de l'entrepreneuriat , Université catholique de Lille (France)
Aarhus Business School , Université de Aarhus (Danemark)
European Foundation for Management Development
Valnalón (Espagne)

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