Areas in which bursary applications are sought
(i) Initiatives that seek to develop entrepreneurial mindsets and skills
Such initiatives should foster transversal skills aimed at strengthening the knowledge, skills and motivation to engage in entrepreneurial activities in a variety of settings; and opening up new learning opportunities through the practical application of entrepreneurial skills.
As examples, proposed initiatives in this area might include (but are not limited to):
- • Practical pedagogies illuminating the entrepreneurial process. For example, a structure or process for lecturers to bring students into the notion of the entrepreneurial mindset using methodologies relevant to their discipline area.
- • Develop virtual reality environments to enable skill and knowledge development.
- • Develop live or virtual cross-discipline tools, techniques, workshops and / or games.
- • Scope out the development of a live, cross-discipline student marketplace.
- • Design new enterprise/innovation modules for programmes. These might be single discipline or cross-discipline or relevant to specific contexts (e.g. social entrepreneurship, cultural entrepreneurship, digital entrepreneurship, etc.).
- • Exposing students in specific discipline areas to customised entrepreneurship supports.
(iI) Initiatives that engage learners with enterprise and/or stimulate the flow and exchange of knowledge between HEIs and enterprises. Such initiatives could aim to create collaborative knowledge alliance platforms.
- • Design live challenges which are fully embedded in the curriculum; teaming students, researchers, faculty and alumni entrepreneurs.
- • Design a structured entrepreneurship internship programme.
- • Development of a suite of entrepreneurship podcasts / video case studies.
- • Development of assessment / evaluation methodologies for enterprise engagement.
- • Development of a credited model of student engagement in entrepreneurial activities.
- • Organise initiatives or programmes involving WIT alumni entrepreneurs.
- • Design communications workshops for non-discipline experts e.g. how to spec. a wireframe, translating a concept into a workable design, storyboard development etc.
(iII) Bursary projects that promote design thinking as a competence among students. Such initiatives could aim to foster stronger cross-discipline engagement, and be student or educator focused:
- • Development of educator workshops on writing and managing entrepreneurship design briefs, problem exploration and managing the creative process.
- • Development of ideation and low-fidelity prototyping workshops.
- • Design of cross-discipline design challenges.
- • Integrating design methodologies and frameworks into entrepreneurial practice.
- • Initiatives which facilitate cross-discipline collaborative engagement between staff and / or students.
In particular, GROWTH HUB Entrepreneurship Education Bursaries welcomes applications that support:
- (i) Enhancing inclusivity in entrepreneurship activities including increasing participation in those groups currently under-represented in entrepreneurial activity (including women and minority groups).
- (ii) Online delivery of entrepreneurship education activities.