Developing Entrepreneurial Education
21 Apr - 5 May 2027
3 days
Enhance graduates’ career outcomes by fostering entrepreneurial competencies and creating entrepreneurial career paths. Guided by experienced educators and practitioners, you’ll explore global best practices and effective pedagogies to deliver truly impactful entrepreneurship education.
Did you know? Participating in this course will earn you 1.5 Continuing Education Units and a UIIN Badge!
*Please note that dates might be subject to change. They will be confirmed closer to the start date of the course.
This training course is freely accessible for our Accelerator & Changemaker members
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We just wanted to make sure that before you register and pay, you are aware that this and many other learning opportunities are included and/or discounted in a UIIN community membership :)
Benefits of joining UIIN
- Networking
Expand your network in the online community and at our many events. - Learning
Develop your professional skills with our seminars, masterclasses and training courses. - Actionable insights
Discover our case studies, reports, podcasts & more. - Tailored & strategic guidance
Join roundtable discussions, get tailored strategy sessions and receive a diagnostic report.
Who should attend
- University Leaders: Vice presidents, deans, and senior managers looking to transform their institutions into innovation hubs or boost the impact of existing activities through entrepreneurial strategies and structures.
- Entrepreneurship Unit Staff: Senior staff of entrepreneurship centers and incubators aiming to create a structured approach to venture development.
- Knowledge Transfer Professionals: Those leading student and academic entrepreneurship initiatives, especially those developing pathways for start-ups and spin-offs.
- Entrepreneurship Educators: Faculty members designing or refining curricula to inspire and cultivate entrepreneurial skills among students.
Learning outcomes
This course will help you to
- Create a vision and roadmap for building entrepreneurial education at your university
- Build infrastructure and mobilise resources to enable entrepreneurial behaviour
- Understand how to promote entrepreneurship among students
- Design entrepreneurial programs to boost employability including programs, course, hackathons and challenge-based education formats
- Be comfortable leading, designing and implementing different types of entrepreneurial activities at your university.
- Develop a global perspective of how entrepreneurship is being fostered including an understanding of world’s best practices
- Expand your personal and professional network
Course elements
Week 1
21 Apr
Introduction to the course
Onboarding
Developing Student Employability through Entrepreneurship | Workshop
Gain a comprehensive understanding of fostering entrepreneurial students by exploring the development of an entrepreneurial mindset and skills, promoting entrepreneurship among students, and learn how to develop an entrepreneurial program that enhances employability.
Week 2
28 Apr
Creating Excellent Entrepreneurship Education | Workshop
Craft a successful entrepreneurship program by setting clear aims, understanding diverse pedagogies, applying best practices for entrepreneurial capability development, utilising foundational tools such as the lean-startup approach and design thinking.
Effective Entrepreneurial Pedagogies | Knowledge-to-Practice
Gain the expertise to strategically utilise hackathons or entrepreneurial challenges by understanding their context, mastering the format, and applying best-practice principles, enabling you to design and execute effective events.
Week 3
5 May
Design your own Entrepreneurship Course | Knowledge-to-Practice
Design an outline for an intensive entrepreneurship activity, led by an experienced professional and using a step-by-step guide to create new entrepreneurship courses, hackathons, and challenge projects.
Closing
Wrap-up
Facilitators & Experts
Todd has consulted to the European, Australian, and Vietnamese Governments, and to multiple universities. Todd is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the IMT Business School in Paris and a visiting researcher at Imperial College (UK), Technical University of Vienna (AUT) and the University of Adelaide (AUST) in the topics of entrepreneurship and innovation.
Balzhan is Director of Research & Training at UIIN, where she leads the development and scaling of training courses and ensures that research insights are translated into practical value for our community. She holds a PhD in university–business collaboration and brings deep expertise in connecting research, practice, and innovation to strengthen collaboration between higher education and industry.
"The highlight of the training has been very much that 360, holistic approach to entrepreneurship. Getting merged into other people's challenges, taking the conversation out into the local environment, sharing stories, learning how other people do things, but then also validating a lot of the work that we do."
Questions? Book a one-on-one with us.
Dr. Balzhan Orazbayeva, Manager Strategic Initiatives
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