UpenSkills
The University of Amsterdam offers, through Coursera, an online course that will give you the opportunity to learn about Responsible Research and Innovation. In this course, that starts on January 2021, you will learn how to apply Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in your own work. First by understanding why it is important to act […]
The project has the final list of entrepreneur skills that are going to be promoted. Entrepreneur skills: Creativity and Innovation Social Intelligence Adaptability Persistence and Resilience Leadership Responsability Collaboration Ability to learn Curiosity Risk Critical thinking Result Orientation Delegate Control Besides, during last months, the partners had proposed several tools and dynamics to work with […]
Have you ever thought about what are the most important skills entrepreneurs need? If you are considering becoming an entrepreneur, these skills that you can develop could increase your entrepreneurial success. There are several ones such as: hard skills (technical and financial skills) that can be extremely important to manage a business. Or soft skills […]
During the first steps of the project, one of them was to do a short analysis about entrepreneur skills in each partner region. For this task, each partner create a study with the young entrepreneurs they worked. In the case of Croatia, they work with a small focus group of youngers. They presented their businesses […]
Last week, the 1st of July, took place the second online meeting with the partners of the project. After the study of each region about the entrepreneur skills throw the surveys and focus groups, the partners collected a list of all. Entrepreneur skills: Creativity Social skills Adaptability Flexibility Persistence Leadership Responsibility Collaboration Ability to learn […]
Entrepreneurship is a skill that can be learnt. It´s not necessary to be an entrepreneur since you were a child to run a successful business. An entrepreneurial mindset and skills can be developed or improved. One of the first steps in the framework of the project including in the Intellectual Output 1 is to take […]
Some researches conducted in the late 1960s by David McClelland, psychologist at Harvard University, are based on the assumption that everyone has an inner motivation to improve. That´s why we think that entrepreneurship can be learnt. Empretec’s unique methodology is based on that studies and if you take a look to it, there are 10 […]
The 26st of march took place the first online meeting of the project. The initial idea of the event was meant to be in person in Croatia but due to the COIVD crisis it was impossible to travel so the partners decided to continue with an online meeting. The meeting was coordinate by Polina from […]
The kick-off meeting of UPENSKILLS was held the 11th of December 2019 in the city of Riga, the capital of Latvia. The meeting was hosted by the Baltic Ontopsychology Association (BOA), the project coordinator, in the imposing skyscraper of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Our charming host, Dr Nina Linde, head of BOA, welcomed the […]