Student Entrepreneurship Euregio VentureLab

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Project objective: The key objective of this project is to contribute to fill the gap between entrepreneurial intent and action among the young generation and to infuse early on in their projects an international dimension. Main activities: The project is built around three key actions that reinforces each other: 1° Bridging the gap for international entrepreneurial action. In most cases, students are strongly focused on their local area and lack the international mind-set. One dimension of this project aims at facilitating students’ and young graduates’ networking across partnering regions by organizing joint activities (i.e. contests, start-up week-ends...), providing access to lean start-up process or supporting teams developments. 2° Providing knowledge and pedagogical support for young entrepreneurs engaged in cross-border projects. More educational support is needed to promote a better understanding of entrepreneurial opportunities, with a cross-border perspective. Most existing support is not exploiting modern technologies that young generations favour to acquire knowledge (i.e. social media platforms, including videos, podcasts, streams, Twitter...). The intention is to develop and share knowledge content and support for young entrepreneurs in each region through a common platform. 3° Research and sharing best practices across partner institutions. As the creation of start-ups by students has been a rather recent trend (at least in Europe), it is important for researchers to keep abreast of the developments in this area and gain an in-depth understanding of this phenomenon. Further, each partner institution has developed its own action plan to promote entrepreneurship in its region but there has been little sharing of knowledge, experience and best practice. Therefore, we plan to organize joint research activities to share best practices and to build a critical mass of research relating to student entrepreneurship in particular. Expected results and main outputs: The ultimate objectives of the project are to: - Increase the number of start-ups created among the target population. - Favour the emergence of cross-national projects developed by the target population. - Fasten the internationalisation process of projects. - Build and strengthen an ecosystem that supports students’ entrepreneurship in the regions. - Improve existing methods, research and support system of students’ entrepreneurship. - Position the Euregio on the international map of student entrepreneurship. - Institutionalize cooperation between the partners with a long-term perspective. Ultimately, by providing students the grounds to successfully found their own firm with an international twist, this project aims at creating win-win outcomes for the society, private and public sector.

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