Entrepreneurship education for european students: a way to exchange students an...

• Author(s): Pires, José Adriano ; Fernandes, Paula O.
• Date: 2011
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/9654
• Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Subject(s): Entrepreneurship education; Student and teaching staff mobility; Polytechnic Institute of Bragança; Erasmus pogramme; Intensive programme; Lifelong learning programme
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Participation in Erasmus Programme in the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme will improve the excellence of education in Institutions of Higher Education by providing the possibility of bilateral student and teaching staff exchange with leading European academic institutions. In additional, another important aspect of Erasmus is the possibility of organizing Intensive Programmes (IP) where students and teachers from different academic European Institutions will study specific topics in a compact way - short time. Is common knowledge that the experience of studying abroad enriches students' lives in the academic and professional fields. Teaching Staff exchanges have similar beneficial effects. In order to improve the quality and to increase the volume of student and teaching staff mobility in Europe, to develop the quality and to increase the volume of multilateral cooperation between higher education institutions in Europe was born this Intensive Programme entitled Entrepreneurship Education for European Students, already approved by the Portugal National Agency for the Management of the Lifelong Learning Programme and will be operational next academic year. So, this paper describes the Entrepreneurship Education for European Students Intensive Programme as playing an important role in the lives of participants and in the development of Higher Education in Europe.