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BALTIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP PARTNERS - BEPART
Quality and Effectiveness of Entrepreneurship
Promotion and Education in Universities and
Regions Cultivating Entrepreneurship
Presentation at the Conference Europäische
Territoriale Zusammenarbeit - INTERREG IV A, B,
C by the state-ministries for transport and
economic affairs of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, 14
Sept. 2007, Schwerin Presenter
Christoph Diensberg (University of Rostock)
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Programme Background INTERREG IIIC
Interreg III A Coop. cross-border Interreg III
B Coop. transnational Interreg III C Coop.
interregional
INTERREG IIIC aims at

• Integration/ networking of regions in Europe
• interregional and broad exchange of knowledge/
  experience/ information
• innovations/ novelties for business, society,
  ecology
• more effectiveness of activities for regional
  development and cohesion.

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Programme Background INTERREG IIIC

• Organisational types for projects
• Regional Framework Operations (RFOs)
• Individual projects
• Networks (e.g. BEPART)

Project Partner
Project Partner
Lead Partner
Project Partner
Project Partner
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BEPART FACTS
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Network Partners
Lead Partner University of Rostock.
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Why such a project operation?

• In favour of entrepreneurship and regional
  development
• Activation of local and regional thoughts and
  concepts
• Support for international/ European orientation
  and cooperation
• Development of human resources and ideas
• Improvement of competitiveness and organisational
  development of the involved partners
• Combination of resources, building up synergies
• Implementation of larger international activities
  which would overchallenge a single actor
• More effectiveness and quality of regional and
  local activities.

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BEPART Project Components
Component 1 Management and coordination
Component 2 Experience exchange in the field of
regional (entrepreneurship) development.
Component 3 Dissemination of common findings
internationally/ regionally
Component 4 Development and test of new ways in
entrepreneurship education and training
Component 5 Quality development learning/
network-learning, evaluation.
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Logic Model for BEPART
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• Examples for activities outputs
• 4 internat. conferences, gt 350 participants
• 12 regional conferences, gt 450 participants
• gt 28 smaller project events
• BEPART homepage, Virtual Working Space
• gt 100 working papers, publications,
  presentations, reports
• More effective involvement of/ cooperation with
  regional partners
• Training-of-Trainer Concept
• Activities in research and development
• Examples for results and outcomes
• Improved methods on a local and regional level
  (e.g. more internationally, better didactics)
• Improvements of knowledge, experience, ideas
• New training concepts, new project initiatives
• Intensified triple-helix-dialogue

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BEPART Aktivity Example 1 Training of Trainers
Concept for an internat. Training of Trainers gt
Professionalisation, networking,
competence-building
Strategic Idea Performance improvements
international orientation/ exchange within
entre-preneurship promotion, especially in
training coaching complementary to possible
master-studies (ToT as approach with less
entrance barriers)
Target group Teachers, lecturers, incubators,
managers, consultants.
Didactic approach Focus on action learning, new
and activating teaching methods, more than
technical knowledge, linking theory and
application.
Training venues module-wise at partners of
BEPART.
Certificate pricing according single module
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BEPART Aktivity Example 1 Training of Trainers
Plan for modules and hosting locations
Business Models / (Univ. of Rostock/ HIE-RO)
Opportunity Creation Recognition
Learning Entrepreneurial Competences Course
design / (Häme Dvl. Center)
Case Based Teaching / (Univ. of Twente)
Creativity Methods / (Univ. of Krakow)
Entrepreneurial Competencies
Teaching Skills/ Coaching/ Consulting
Innovative Teaching Methods/ (Kaunas Bus.
Incubator)
Action Learning/ Simul. Exerc. (Univ. of Rostock/
HIE-RO)
Business Plan Elaboration (Univ. of Tallinn)
International Business Knowledge
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BEPART Activity Example 2 Regional Conferences
International exchange of experience knowledge
on entrepreneurship education
International conferences 2005-2007
Example Regional Conference in Rostock
University in Transition for an Entrepreneurial
Region - Innovations in Entrepreneurship
Promotion and Education- University of Rostock
// 19 20 April 2007 // 83 partic./ 1 Publ.
Regional exchange of experience knowledge on
entrepreneurship education
Regional conferences 07 in regions of all partners
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BEPART Activity Example 3 Regional Research
2004 2005 Structured experience exchange
regional development, regional
entrepreneurship promotion, transfer btw.
universities and regions.
2005 2006 Arrangement of research-approach and
of structure for research paper writing of
regional case papers internal revision process.
2007 Edition of book publication (paper print
pdf/ online on www.bepart.info)/ dissemination.
?Cultivating Entrepreneurial Regions Cases and
Studies from the Network-Project BEPART,
Rostocker Beiträge zur Regional- und
Strukturforschung, Nr. 19
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BEPART Activity Example 4 Dissemination
10 BEPART Propositions Towards Entrepreneurial
Regions

• Formulated autumn/ winter 2006
• Output of 2 larger BEPART-conferences
• Internationally shared assumptions towards
  regional development/ entrepreneurship promotion
  education
• Focus on strategic bottlenecks
• Purpose Communication and regional effects
• Online Support Campaignon www.bepart.info

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BEPART Activity Example 4 Dissemination
10 BEPART Propositions on www.bepart.info (1)
click
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BEPART Activity Example 4 Dissemination
10 BEPART Propositions on www.bepart.info (2)
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BEPART Activity Example 5 Current

• Final Conference 02 October 2007, Rostock
• Training of Trainers Further development,
  continuation.
• Master-Program Entrepreneurship Training and
  Education offered by IDEA (International Danish
  Entrepreneurship Academy)
• gt Support and cooperation gt BEPART partners
  offer part of modules
• Case Studies on Entrepreneurship Education and
  Promotion (to be implemented in teaching).
• Book publication Evaluation and Learning of and
  within Networks
• Final Report
• Follow-Up Activities/ Sustainability (to be
  proposed e.g. for programs Interreg IV and/ or
  BSR)

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Experineces/ Recommendations I towards working
in networks
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Experiences/ Recommendations II towards the
state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

• State co-financing up to 100 Learning from
  Finland?
• International/ Europ. orientation broadening of
  language skills in English.
• Quantitygt Quality, Hardware gt Software/
  Knowledge further cultural development.
• Resource base of state-universities in terms of
  attracting and managing third-party funding
  further development.
• Promotion of business start-ups shifting the
  focus towards entrepreneurship and
  enterprising.
• Entrepreneurship education as field for
  innovations and development activities to be
  developed.
• Building up regional innovation systems/
  clusters to approach the task as a challenge for
  learning and cooperation, less than only
  hardware and hightech-development developing
  triple-helix-cooperation.

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Experiences/ Recommendations III in terms of
Interreg

• BEPART proposal successful only with 2nd attempt
  gt learning from mistakes possible.
• Interreg programme experience in general
  positive.
• Project application
• Selection of quality-partners/ network as a
  common destiny.
• Inputs/ Outputs/ Results/ Outcomes
  defined terms!
• Care for clear definition of part-activities
  responsibilities.
• As possible Lead partner Think of combining
  coordination-tasks and operational tasks/
  activities.
• make or buy for coordination/ management to be
  decided also in terms of (organizational)
  learning chances.
• Project operation
• Dissemination high work load, not to be
  underestimated!
• Finances/ Eligibility of cost gt be precise,
  mind the rules.
• Impact/ sustainability care for processes which
  support that knowledge effects dont stick to
  involved persons onlybut can disseminate and
  permeate/ be institutionalised.

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Thank you!
Contact to project and partners
www.bepart.info
Contact to coordination office University of
Rostock, BEPARTChristoph Diensberg Albert-Einstei
n-Str. 23, D 18055 RostockTel.
49-(0)381-498-5628 Mail christoph.diensberg_at_uni
-rostock.de