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Project
Acronym: FoSentHE 
Name: Tempus Fosenthe 
[PROJECT URL | CORDIS URL]
Project status: From: 2009-02-03 To: 2012-02-03 (Completed)
Type (Programme): TEMPUS 
Type: TEMPUS_JEP 
Project cost: -
Project funding: -
Project coordinator
Organisation Name: University of Zagreb 
Organisation adress: Trg J.F.Kennedya 6 
Organisation country: Hrvatska 
Contact person name: Marina Dabić 
Contact person email: Email 
Croatian partner
Organisation name: Ekonomski fakultet 
Organisation address: Trg J.F.Kenndya 6 
Contact person name: Marina Dabić
Contact person tel:
098271253  Contact person fax:  
Contact person e-mail: Email 
Partners
Organisation nameCountry
School of Business Administration, the College of Management, Rishion Izrael 
Institute of Systems Sciences, Innovation and Sustainability Research University of Graz Austrija 
Universite de Nice Sophia Antipolis Francuska 
ISM University of Management and Economics Litva 
EFMD-The international network for excellence in management development Belgija 
University of Maribor Slovenija 
Akademia Ekonomiczna w Poznaniu, POznan UNiversity of Economics Poljska 
Juraj Dobrilo University in Pula Hrvatska 
University of Split Hrvatska 
Estudent Hrvatska 
Short description of project
The underlying idea of the project is to incite students’ entrepreneurial activity: the best way to improve business theory (education) and practice at the same time is to ensure their continuous interaction and mutual upgrading. To this end, the project develops the 5e5 outcome model. The mission of the FoSentHE project is to “create the E cathedral” through the 5e5 outcome model:   Entrepreneurial mindset: Developing entrepreneurial education as an academic discipline is our vision. The project is dedicated to promote entrepreneurship in the programmes of different studies (e.g. engineering, chemistry, medicine, pharmacy, biotechnology, business etc.). E - learning: FoSentHE comprises an innovative Virtual Campus of Higher Academic Institutes beyond the gates of academia, inviting relevant “societal actors” in a public dialogue on how to deal with the particularly complex interdisciplinary and intercultural issues of enhancing entrepreneurship in higher education.   Excellence: relates to both education and business world through the lessons learnt in the EU Consortium members, introduction of modern technology and cutting edge teaching methods and interaction. Excellence requires permanent education and improvement of skills and competencies. Excellence in education and business world is further fostered through the interactions with the social factors in development process on one hand, and with the international community, on the other hand. These interactions will be enabled by establishment of the pilot E/E Centres at the Faculties of Economics and Business in Zagreb and Split, Croatia. Excellent and motivated students are our target group and the association E-student at the Faculty of Economics and Business Zagreb is one of the key partners.   E/E Centres: These are centres for education/entrepreneurship with a twofold role: they provide various forms of education and training in the field of entrepreneurship and foster entrepreneurship and economy as a whole. Centres, here established as pilot projects, are envisaged to act as real economic promotion centres in future – actually connecting the state, academia and business, providing exchange of information. This is a way in which a student who wants to be an entrepreneur can be educated and receive all the information regarding the entrepreneurship.   European Network: FoSentHE will insist on the quality assurance, standardization and dissemination of education of entrepreneurship through internationalization of curriculum, and also on creation of models and processes that are flexible and applicable throughout the Consortium. European Network a network unit of entrepreneurship expertise within the target institutions responsible for the dissemination of best outputs (dissemination material, newsletters, books, guidelines etc.). Network serves also as a mean to involve local/regional authorities and relevant institutions into the process; enables the transfer of best practices to the partner countries. 
Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner
The kick-off meeting with the Tempus FoSentHE partners was held in Zagreb from 3rd till 5th February 2009. The ceremonial ‘launch’ of the project took place at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, on the second day, when the participants were greeted by Prof. Darko Tipurić, PhD, Dean of the above mentioned faculty, Prof. Aleksa Bjeliš, PhD, Rector of the University of Zagreb, and Radovan Fuchs, PhD, Permanent Undersecretary for Higher Education. Prof. Marina Dabić, PhD, who is in charge of the Tempus FoSentHE Project for Croatia, presented the project in detail, its goals and the expected contribution of entrepreneurship to the quality of higher education in the countries - Consortium members. On 19th and 20th March, in its Central Office situated in Brussels, the European Commission gathered the coordinators of the TEMPUS projects (approved upon the first application of project suggestions, the TEMPUS IV Programme), the Tempus Offices, and the National Contact Points related to the TEMPUS Programme. Every year, the topics discussed during such meetings refer to managing the Tempus projects. On 27th and 28th March 2009, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula hosted the WORKSHOP on how to elaborate the entrepreneurial study course. The participants were greeted by Prof. Robert Matijašić, PhD, Rector of Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Prof. Ines Kersan - Škabić, PhD, Deputy Head of the Department of Economics and Tourism – Dr. Mijo Mirković; afterwards, the participants were shown around the new facilities of the Department. On the first day, the participants analyzed the entrepreneurial course contents at all higher education levels in the EU countries and the members of the Tempus FoSentHE Consortium. After that the discussion on how to work out the contents of 3 entrepreneurial courses took place. The first two are to be used with students attending economic and non-economic undergraduate study programmes, and the third one is suitable for students attending economic graduate studies. Intensive workshop “How to improve the innovative capacity of SMEs” was held in Maribor in April 2009. Experts for curriculum development from Maribor were asked to join and contribute to the workshop schedule. The main focus of the workshop included the implementation problem and the problem of understanding entrepreneurship in SMEs. From 18th to 20th May 2009 Faculty of Economics Split held a workshop on creation of materials for e-learning courses. Marc Alvarado was employed as expert for elearning where he provided a conceptual framework for distance learning. Professor Andriana Granić, PhD, who has long-term experience in the field of CIUI (Computer Interaction and User Interfaces), had a lecture and presented positive and negative examples of a computer interface design. Moodle workshop was organized to support this activity. The workshop was led by professor Ante Denić where he gave a detailed presentation and instruction of employment of the named program package for elearning. Professor Marina Dabić, PhD, introduced TEMPUS FoSentHE on the conference "Challenges Of Europe:Financial Crisis And Climate Change, which took place in Bol, Brač, Croatia.    he workshop in France took place from 18th till 22nd September 2009 on the University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis. French expert for elearning introduced a platform JALON (Join And Learn On Network) used for elearning that is applied by thousands professors and almost 12,000 students. The meeting conducted different programs and attachments which use or can be used in Moodle. There were also several site visits to differing faculties encompassed in the University of Nice, student organization for entrepreneurship, technical institute and various organizations which incite student, university and private sector collaboration. At the same time, PACA Est incubator (Sophia Antipolis) which is the biggest European technology park. Sophia Antipolis is multicultural, multidisciplinary community directed to innovation, which serves as a model of cluster competitiveness in France.       The workshop regarding entrepreneurship promotion held on 28th September till 1st October 2009 in Poznan University of Economics, Poznan. The University was founded in 1926 and has about 16.000 students. The University cooperates with more than 120 international partner Universities in Europe and across the world in exchange of teaching staff, joint programs and collaboration on various research projects. Project partners were greeted by Professor Maciej Zukowski, PhD, a prorector for research and international relations. A first day saw a discussion on the state and obstacles of entrepreneurship and the future of entrepreneurship in higher education in Poland and Europe. On the second day, the partners visited Poznan Science and Technology Park and DNA Research Center. After the visit, partners visited the old city and the St. Peter and Paul’s basilica which is the oldest polish cathedral which was founded in Poznan during the second half 10th century. The following day partners visited the Nikkel Science and Technology Park and Poznan Academic Entrepreneurship Incubator.   The opening ceremony of Tempus FoSentHE computer room was held at the Faculty of Economics and Business Zagreb on Tuesday, October 20, 2009, at 11:00 am in room number 14. 216.000 kuna of the total grant have been invested in Tempus computer room and 32 computers were purchased with the money from the grant, 95% funded from the EU and 5% is co-funded by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports. The room will be utilized by all students, and will be used for education in entrepreneurship and for e-learning courses. Computer room is the result of the activities of Tempus Fostering Entrepreneurship in Higher Education FoSentHE project at the Faculty of Economics and Business Zagreb and coordinator Professor Marina Dabić, PhD.   From 23rd till 28th of October 2009 a site visit to the ISM University of Management and Economics in Kanuas, Lithuania, was held. Lithuania is the largest of the Baltic States, one of the fastest growing economies in the region, and an active member of the EU and NATO. ISM University of Management and Economics was established in 1999 by Norwegian School of Management BI and the Innovation Norway. First private university in Lithuania counts more than 1770 students. 4 entrepreneurial companies were visited: “Karpyne”, Mars, Entrepreneurial center “Technopolis Science and Technologies Park” and “Baldai Jums”. The director of “Karpyne” Kristina Bartkute welcomed Tempus Project site visit participants ant the homestead “Karpyne”. She presented the history of this enterprise during the tour outside and inside the homestead. Development of country tourism in Lithuania has had a strong support from the government as well as the EU funds. Mars Lietuva, UAB is the Lithuanian unit of Mars, Incorporated – one of the world’s largest family owned companies. The brands we are proud to produce locally include: PEDIGREE®, WHISKAS®, KITEKAT®, SHEBA® and CESAR®. The visit at “MARS Lietuva” consisted of two parts – presentation of the company and tour around its premises. Technopolis is being created under the concept of Science and Technologies Parks as a production complex of knowledge-based business enterprises and research, providing a chance of entering the World market for innovative medium and small enterprises of Kaunas. Most of companies in Technopolis Science and Technologies Park are from IT sector, i.e. "MICROSOFT" INOVACIJŲ CENTRAS, JSC “TELTONIKA”, JSC “AGMIS”, JSC "INTERNET STUDIO", JSC "GIGACOR". "Baldai Jums", is a modern heir of lasting furniture production in Jonava. Tempus Project team visited different manufactories, got acquaintance to full manufacturing cycle and finished the visit of “Baldai Jums” in the exposition of production hall.       The conference “Entrepreneurship without Borders” activity 3.3. and 4.2. - Israel, site visit to entrepreneurship centres - Israel and tour to Jerusalem and Dead Sea, lasted from 15th till 23rd November 2009.  The College of Management, Rishon LeZion is the first non-subsidized, non-profit academic institution in Israel to be recognized and certified by the Council for Higher Education. The largest college in Israel, with over 12,000 students and 28,000 alumni, offers Bachelor and Master degrees  in Business Administration, Law, Media, Economics, Organizational Development and Consulting, Computer Science, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Behavioral Sciences, Family Studies and Interior Design. In national examinations, COMAS’ students rank in the top percentiles in their scores and professional success. At the beginning of the conference a welcoming speech was held by the representative Tempus Office, Ministry of Education and Dean of the College of Management. In addition to the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, other participants were partners from the Institute for Systems Science, University of Graz; Faculty of Medicine, University of Osijek; Faculty of Economics, University of Split; Department for Economics and Tourism, Juraj Dobrila University in Pula; EFMD; University of Economics, Poznan; Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor and partners from Israel. The conference was part of the activity. There the research papers were presented and discussion of the papers took place. In 2 days 27 presentations were held in two parallel sessions.  Site visits were made to entrepreneurial ventures like Tishbi winery start up, the Tefen Industrial Park and Acre, where the Ayalim Association worked, the young Israeli students who support community service and entrepreneurship by founding student villages. The last visit was to the Hebrew University, which is at the 12th place on a ranking scale for patents according to Milken Institute Biotech Patent Rankings. It’s interesting to point out that it has a better ranking place than Harvard University. There are 23.500 students enrolled at the University. Croatian participants visited the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Tel Aviv and attended the concert of the String Quartet RUCNER from Zagreb. In Jerusalem visited different religious heritage: Golgotha – the Hill of Calvary, Way of the Cross, Jesus’ tomb, garden of Gethsemane, weeping wall and various churches. Also a visit to Masada and Holocaust museum in Akko was organized.       “Seminar on methodology of entrepreneurship promotion” in Graz, activity 1.5 lasted from 10th till 12th December 2009. The seminar was part of the FoSentHE activity. The first day the visit to the Karl-Franzes University in Graz ( http://www.uni-graz.at/E/#) and to the Botanic Garden, a part of university research network, (http://www.uni-graz.at/garten/engl.html) took place. Science Park Graz was visited on the second day, where a welcoming speech was held by Dr.Vice-President Prof. Dr. Roberta Maierhofer. Also, the examples of successful start-ups were presented with presentations about Science Park’s successful transition of transferring research and investment into private ventures. The last visit was to the chocolate business start-up Zotter, held by Josef Zotter, a pioneer facilitator of the fair trade in the chocolate business.    The activity 0.3 was designed to accommodate the needs of the closure of the first year and open the activities for the second year of the FoSentHE project. All consortium partners’ coordinators gave a brief description of the activity they organized in the previous year.  Partners discusses the forthcoming activities in more detail: such as a new market survey, a conference in Lithuania, a launching of the online course in Moodle, preparation of 3 books for the coming year and set the deadlines, teams and workplan for the second project year. During the stay in Zagreb, partners also finished the activity 0.4 (First year project report), 3.1 (Compilation of peer review board) and 3.2 (Participation and satisfaction survey where they assessed various aspects of the project like coordination, administration, dissemination; designed to maintain quality assurance and satisfaction of all partners in the project).  On Friday, 15th January 2010, Croatian NTO conducted the Field monitoring with consortium partners. Consortium members joined a cultural evening in Croatian National Theater and a short dinner in Mano.            The workshop Preparatory intensive seminar and modification of the content of the curricula held on 18th March till 20th March 2010 in Juraj Dobrila University in Pula. Welcome speech and presentation of the planned activities of the workshop in Pula was held by prof.dr.sc. Marli Gonan Božac, vice rector at Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. Ivica Petrinić, assistant from the Juraj Dobrila University in Pula, started with the presentation entitled "Moodle courses devopment status". Moodle is an excellent tool used in more thar 3 million courses worldwide, has a large developers and users communities and offers many usefull plugins. As it's open sourced using Moodle prevents technological lock-in, so in future we can use the content we create without new expenses for software licences. Tempus Moodle currently consists of 2 semi-developed courses in English, and one in Croatian language. Courses format (weekly/topic) and number of units are not standardized. At the moment we are working on three main courses: Entrepreneurship for non economic students, Entrepreneurship  for economic students, MBA course composed of the former economics/business students and those who do not now anything about the economics/business. Ivica Petrinić suggested the "topic format" instead the "weekly format" of all courses, and the standardization of all the documents (.ppt, .pdf, .html)... Currently we have:5 topics for non economics students’ course, 6 topics for economics students’ course. The second day of the workshop was organized by Gerald Steiner, PhD and project coordinator from ISIS Graz, and Elvis Kenik, mag., from ISIS, University of Graz. They planed the workshop as follows: Reflection and thoughts about the Moodle Platform, Harvard Business School – example of e-learning structures, Open Questions,  Problems, Timeline.  The timeline was defined: 19.03.2010. – start – workshop in Pula; 1 week for the management of the Project; 2 weeks for the content to be redone according to the abovementioned roles and individual responsibilities; 24th March 2010 – Skype session; 20.04.2010. – Syllabus sent to EFMD; 26.04.2010. – Non-economics student course should be made and ready; 01.05.2010. – Start with the Pilot phase; 01.06.2010. – Economic course finished;  By 01.09.2010. – Approval by the institutions granted;01.10.2010. – the MBA course ready for start (mix of non business and business course); 01.01.2011. – all three courses should be finished. After workshop we visited the Solaris, a company engaged primarily in the production and marketing of photovoltaic modules and equipment. Since 1999 the company has been following the latest technology developments and expanding its production capacity, thus developing the most advanced and efficient photovoltaic modules on the market. The company is located in Novigrad (Croatia), employs 140 people with an average age of 28 years. The annual production capacity of photovoltaic modules reaches 50MW. Throughout the production of photovoltaic modules, Solaris is focusing constantly on global environmental trends and employs exclusively environmentally friendly technologies, thus contributing to the sustainability of energy and nature.  After the visit of the Solaris, we went to visit the wine cellar Kabola where the high quality typical Istrian wines are produced from selected grapes grown in the vicinity of Momjan and Buje, in the NW part of Istrian peninsula. We were welcomed by the owners who have shown us the cellar and explained how the production of high quality wines is achieved. A reflection of the main points made during the previous two days of the workshops was done on the last day but the forthcoming events were pointed out as well: The partners decided that the Nice workshop will be postponed and new dates are: 20.09.2010.-25.09.2010. on which all present partners agreed; Lithuania – finished call for papers. We will have 5 journals all indexed in different journal bases. Each conference participant could decide about the journal in which he/she wants his/her paper to be published in. We decided that each partner will find 2 reviewers for reviewing the papers with the aim to build and develop best procedure for reviewing. The reviewers will have to follow high ethical standard for article reviewing procedure. 


   

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