3EP

3EP is run by four European partners who share their wealth of expertise to deliver the programme. The project is led by NCGE in the UK.

United Kingdom

National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship

National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship was established in 2004, as a key driver for change, through 4 key areas:

• Lead long term cultural change in our universities
• Shape the institutional environment for enterprise and entrepreneurship and embed good practice
• Increase the number of graduate businesses
• Inform regional and national policies that affect enterprise

NCGE works closely with Government departments, universities, and businesses as well as national institutions and entrepreneurships experts internationally.

Denmark

Aarhus Entrepreneurship Centre

Aarhus Entrepreneurship Centre represents experience in involving teachers in entrepreneurship at a full faculty university. Today the network represents teachers from the humanities, the social science, the faculty of science and The Aarhus School of Business and lately some from health science and faculty of theology has joined the network. The focus in the network is on developing new entrepreneurial teaching methods, courses and material. ASB Executive has both experience with a broad range of post graduate executive education and the administrative infrastructure that is necessary to plan, hold and facilitate an international summer school.

Finland

Turku School of Economics

Turku School of Economics has a worldwide reputation for its work in the field of entrepreneurship, technology, innovations support and SME education with emphasis on industrial relations and foresight. It has hosted major conferences in these fields (e.g. RENT, ICSB) and hosts the secretariat of the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB) the Europe’s leading association for small business and entrepreneurship educators and researchers. Turku School of Economics has led several EU projects with its wide international networks, such as Tempus funded ICES – International Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies. Turku, importantly, plays a leading role in support of technology transfer and innovation; Turku Innovation Platform (TIP) initiated by Professor Paasio’s department Business and Innovation Development BID is a Knowledge Intensive Community that promotes world class innovation within the academic and business communities in South-West Finland in order to increase knowledge in entrepreneurship, general business know-how, and improve the quality of innovations and the performance of company startups. A key part of this programme is innovation in Entrepreneurship Education in various forms; BID provides innovation and entrepreneurship-focused courses and training modules for the students in various disciplines, e.g. for future engineers, ICT-professionals, and designers, and runs the Innovation and Entrepreneurship studies within the Nordic Master School in Innovative ICT. The most recent innovative module is the international MBA programme targeted for doctoral students with pilot groups in technology and life-sciences.

Croatia

J.J University of Strossmayer

J.J Strossmayer University in Osijek, Croatia under the leadership of Slavica Singer, UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship, began in the late 1990s to build a portfolio of programmes aimed at supporting, both academically and in practice, the entrepreneurial recovery of eastern Croatia, greatly devastated by the war from 1990s. In 2000, with limited resources, but with the support of the Open Society Institute and Professor Allan Gibb, University initiated an innovative Masters in Entrepreneurship. It now has an undergraduate programme in the same field and has introduced the doctoral programme INNOVATIVENESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP in partnership with University of Turku, Finland; University of Maribor Slovenia; University of Klagenfurt, Austria and Durham University, UK (through EU supported project International Centre for European Studies, at the J.J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, Croatia, established in 2010). The Masters has proved highly successful in attracting high quality candidates, over 350 to date, and enrolment for the 15th cohort will start in September 2011. Being consistent with its conceptual approach of combining theory and practice, several faculty members, business owners and representatives of the local community jointly established an independent Centre for Entrepreneurship in Osijek which (with its Franchise Centre and Family Business Forum) offers a range of counselling services and training programmes to small businesses, being at the same time a platform where students can get practical experience. Entrepreneurship research group at the University has played the lead role in the development of Regional Development Plan and in the creation of CEPOR, national SMEs and Entrepreneurship Policy think tank, where the group leads Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey for Croatia, since 2002.