Removing Obstacles for Cross-border Cooperation (ROCCO)

Sergej LugovićZagreb University of Applied Science

slugovic@tvz.hr https://twitter.com/sergejlugovic/

Parallel session I: Ideas and plans for the development of joint study programmes (introduction: Sergej Lugović MSc., MBA, Polytechnic of Zagreb, moderators Jasmina Skočilić, Agency for Mobility and EU Programs, prof. Ranko Biondić, Ph.D., Faculty of Geotechnics, University of Zagreb , Vladimir Mrša Ph.D., Faculty of Food Technology

and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb )

Problem Case

How to teach so many people in short period of time?

With more then 460 Universities and High Schools in 8 Danube region countries?

Big Data and Artificial Intelligence European Union, September 2013. .

Entrepreneurship and Systems theory

• the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources you currently control - Howard Stevenson, HBS

• The meaning of the somewhat mystical expression, "the whole is more than the sum of parts" is simply that constitutive characteristics are not explainable from the characteristics of isolated parts. The characteristics of the complex, therefore, compared to those of the elements, appear as "new" or "emergent.”, Bertalanffy, General Systems Theory, 1968

• The mechanism of an organization is found at the level below, its purpose at the level above, Joseph Needham (1937)

Four Key Elements to Educating an Entrepreneur

• Knowledge - comfort to go into a new situation, figure out what needs to be known, and learning it.

• Skills - heavy reading, encourage students to work with a team of people to get that work done, grade will come from class participation, rewards for making point quickly and effectively

• Alternatives - cases that shows different kinds of people in various industries who succeed and fail in creating and managing start-ups.

• Attitude – focus on customers competitively superior value and students could safely forge ahead in the face of experts and experienced people who tell them their venture will not work

http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2011/06/15/harvards-lion-of-entrepreneurship-packs-up-his-office/#63d4af0d50fa

The Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan, measures of interests (3 out of 10 related to education)

• Entrepreneurial behavior, skills and mindsets to be embedded in national/regional curricula at all levels – primary, secondary, vocational, higher education and non-formal education and training, alongside integration of work-based teaching and learning in all disciplines and curricula

• All young people to have one entrepreneurial experience

• Targeted training, finance, internationalization support programs for high growth potential SMEs

Entrepreneurship Action Plan 2020 is based on three pillars:

• developing entrepreneurial education and training; • creating the right business environment; • role models and reaching out to specific groups. To do so;

– Education should be brought to life through practical experiential learning models and experience of real-world entrepreneurs

– Appropriate ecosystems should be created with aim to enable leverage and piloting new technologies, access to finance for startups and promote cross border activities

– Change in the perception of entrepreneurs through practical and positive communication should be promoted (through meeting students with entrepreneurs, case studies, lectures, workshops and company open days)

Our three main variables as “growth engine”

• One is growth opportunity in IT and Internet business,• Another is importance of education and regional

collaboration • Third one is entrepreneurship

• Purpose of that engine is to boost entrepreneurship skills among engineers.

• Such “growth engine” is supporting EU strategic priorities for Danube region, primary Priority Area 09 “Investing in People and Skills” but also contributing to Knowledge Society (PA07) and Competitiveness (PA8)

Possible solution => Master Degree that emphasizing role of entrepreneurship in

engineering education

• Collaborative practical learning with real world entrepreneurship experience

• Extensive participation of students in regional technology entrepreneurship ecosystem (startup companies, accelerators, incubators, venture capital, knowledge transfer organizations and leading global technology vendors)

• Creation of students’ technology ventures that could be used as role models that could be promoted toward different stakeholders changing perception of technology entrepreneurs and promoting potentials that could be generated

Question is,

• how this event (paid by tax payers money) will contribute to citizens better life?

• Why we are doing it? • With who ?• And when?• What will come along the way...