bridge project, "Entrepreneurship as is" (R-3106)

The overall goal of the project is to allow students to get acquainted with entrepreneurship. The project runs in the period 2011-2013 in which two cycles of one year are executed. While being in contact with entrepreneurs, students should get a realistic impression of what comprises entrepreneurship. Too often students think too negative about entrepreneurship as a profession. By participating in an active manner in the life of entrepreneurs, students can experience the day to day tasks and agenda of the entrepreneur. In order to share the experiences of the 20 groups of students with the broader community of students in the province of Limburg, the teams of students that are participating in the project, will record (parts of) their experiences in the companies. At the end of each cycle a large scale event will take place in which the best/most representative clip is selected by the jury of fellow students that are present. The winning team will receive a prize. In total about 200 students will be working with about 40 entrepreneurs. The project is a common initiative of Hasselt University and Unizo Limburg. The project is financed by Agentschap Ondernemen, the Flemmish government program VIA Pact 2020, together with Hasselt University and Unizo.

Keywords:active involvement students, Entrepreneurship, image building

Disciplines:Information and computing sciences, Media and communications