On February 29, a new online meeting was held to follow up on the European D-EMIND project, coordinated by David Rodríguez and financed by the Erasmus+ program.
The main objective of this project, called “D-EMIND-Promoting digital entrepreneurial mindsets in Higher Education”, is to promote higher education institutions to design, develop and test a methodology, based on online challenges to promote the entrepreneurial mindset in education. higher education, for which different learning strategies and tools are being designed. During the meeting, the three key results of the project were monitored:
- Methodology and self-assessment tool: The outcome of this project will focus on further development of the digital sphere of the ATOM Model that encourages an entrepreneurial mindset (creativity, critical thinking, problem solving) among students in online environments.
- Toolbox and D-EMIND Platform: a digital repository with open resources to promote the entrepreneurial mindset. An intranet will be created to facilitate interactions between students, teachers, mentors and external organizations.
- Training Pack: the training of students, teachers and mentors is a fundamental part of promoting the use of the online platform and the entrepreneurial methodology developed.
- D-EMIND MOOCs: the consortium will develop open courses for students, teachers and mentors.
The D-EMIND project, with researchers from different European universities such as the University College of Northern Denmark (Denmark), UC Limburg (Belgium), Hochschule Dusseldorf (Germany) and Csongrad County Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Hungary), focuses on four Crucial operational objectives:
- Develop and promote the use of a trans-European platform for CBL, innovation and peer learning between students and teachers.
- Facilitate real-world challenges where students, as part of their formal education, cooperate with external organizations to help them solve these challenges.
- Merging challenge-based learning and entrepreneurship teaching and therefore taking both to the next level.
- Prepare students for a working life that crosses physical and/or digital borders, thus increasing their ability to work at a European/international level.
- Strengthen the link between higher education institutions and external institutions and organizations (companies, public administration, NGOs, etc.) to co-create projects to promote entrepreneurship.
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