Creating-entrepreneurial-mindset

Methodology of enterpreneurship teaching in tertiary education – experiences of the Faculty of Economics …faculty-wide conference titledDo dzieła- nie umartwiaj się tylko podejmij wyzwanie(Heads up! Don't worry! Take the challenge!)Source: own work.⎯ presentations of three employers fromPomerania who told their business stories(including the argumentation thatfailure in business does not necessarilymean its end)⎯ speech of the representative of thePomeranian Science and TechnologyPark presenting the offer of placing thecompany in the park⎯ student presentation on the preparednessof students to take up runningone's own business⎯ discussion of the factors determiningthe decision of starting the conduct ofone's own businessAccording to the students, the implementation of the above-described project formulawithin the Enterpreneurship course is for (a majority of) them a completely newexperience. It has good and bad sides, however. The benefits of this form of the coursementioned by the students include:• the opportunity to acquire new skills,• acquiring experience related i.a. to developing contacts, acting according to certainprocedures or the organization of projects,• experiencing real problems,• the possibility to make decisions and experience their consequences,• sense of responsibility for the final outcome of the task,• practice of teamwork.Difficulties that students pay attention to in connection with work on the project include:• the need for cooperation of all members of the group (usually students work insmall groups, with persons they know well), the interdependence of the variouselements of the task at hand, the dependence of the final result on the involvementof each student in the group in the work and the efficient coordination ofactions of many persons,• greater amount of work and flexible time for the execution of the task — the activityof students is not limited to 90 minutes per week (as is the case with thetraditional organization of classes) and requires an intense commitment duringthe whole period of five weeks when the project is implemented (90 minuteclasses in classroom, resulting from the schedule, are meetings aimed at planningactions and determining their details, as well as reporting the already completedtasks),32