Entrepreneurial Education
Entrepreneurial education: personal responsibility and independence
Entrepreneurial education demands and encourages students to take responsibility for their own learning. Teachers support students in this process and increasingly challenge them to take responsibility for their own learning over the course of their studies.
Practical, interdisciplinary and up-to-date teaching
Teaching is geared towards these goals in terms of content and methodology, is interdisciplinary, practical and up-to-date. The ability to assume social responsibility in professional activities is a generic component of good teaching.
Example: “Positive computing and diversity in human-technology interaction” module
Ein sehr erfolgreiches Beispiel der Förderung des Entrepreneurial Mindsets der Studierenden stellt das Modul „Positive Computing und Diversity in der Mensch Technik Interaktion“ (Leitung Prof. Dr. Sabrina Eimler, Institut Informatik) dar. Inhaltlich beschäftigt sich dieses Blended Learning Format mit wichtigen Trends wie Gender, Diversity und Interkulturalität, Positive Computing, Sozialer Robotik, Augmented und Virtual Reality sowie KI und Circular Economy. Selbstlernmaterial wird mit Workshops kombiniert, in denen die Studierenden Forschende zu den Themen kennenlernen und Kreativ- und Interaktionstechniken kennenlernen. Alles mündet in einem 2-tägigen Ideenhakathon, der auf Ausschreibungen des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung basiert. Begleitet durch Coaches entstehen innovative Lösungen, die an Tag zwei abschließend gepitcht werden.
The module “Positive Computing and Diversity in Human-Technology Interaction” (led by Prof. Dr. Sabrina Eimler, Department of Computer Science) is a very successful example of promoting an entrepreneurial mindset among students. In terms of content, this blended learning format deals with important trends such as gender, diversity and interculturality, positive computing, social robotics, augmented and virtual reality as well as AI and the circular economy. Self-study material is combined with workshops in which students get to know researchers on the topics and learn about creative and interactive techniques. Everything culminates in a 2-day ideas hackathon based on calls for proposals from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Accompanied by coaches, innovative solutions are developed and pitched on day two.
Intercultural learning in the module
Intercultural learning is also a special feature of the module: students from the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Faculty of Economics regularly take part in the course. While the module was originally offered primarily to students of computer science, students from the Faculty of Economics will also be able to take part from the summer semester of 2025.
You can also find out more about the concept in an article from the handbook “Progress in Entrepreneurship Education and Training”, in which Prof. Dr. Sabrina Eimler and Prof. Dr. Carolin Straßmann reflect on the first steps in the module.