Coneeect European Conference, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 20th – 25th July 2014
Entrepreneurship Education
Coneeect is a European organisation dedicated to the promotion of the teaching of entrepreneurship education in higher education. It gathered for its weeklong summer symposium in the historic University of Aberdeen. A series of speakers from European universities and industry explored relevant research in its understanding; challenged participants to continuously redefine its parameters and to embrace active learning methodologies in its teaching. The conference is part of a master-class series of capacity building in developing entrepreneurship education teaching capability in higher education throughout Europe.
Prof.LioraKatzensteinISEMI Entrerpreneurship College, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Prof.Dr. Klaus Sailer StraschegCenter for Entrepreneurship, Munich, Germany
Coneeect is spearheaded by Prof. Klaus Sailer (Munich), Prof, Dana Redford (Oporto), Prof.LioraKatzenstein (Tel Aviv) and others, it offered a series of workshops, site visits and project engagement with industry personnel, ground zero thinking sessions, structured cross-cultural dialogue and sharing of professional practice at a weeklong summer symposium in the University of Aberdeen, Scotland in late July last.
Representing the University of Limerick was the sole Irish representative, Gerard Slattery, Lecturer in Education (Business), andCourse Director of the Professional Master of Education (Business) in the Department of Education and Professional Studies at the University of Limerick, Ireland.
Prof.Dr. Dana T. Redford President of the Platform for Entrepreneurship Education in Portugal, Oporto, Portugal
The conference drew participants from the four corners of Europe: Scotland, Ireland, England, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Latvia,
Russia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Greece, Israel, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Keynote addresses were presented by Prof. Klaus Sailer (Munich), Prof. Dana Redford (Oporto), Prof.LioraKatzenstein (Tel Aviv), Ian Heywood (Aberdeen), Prof.Ruskov (Sofia), David McMurty (Aberdeen) and Leslie Hetherington (Aberdeen).
The Coneeect project has an interdisciplinary focus and is not solely for the business specialist. In education terms, it seeks to cultivate and channel talents and capabilities that can have both economic and social benefits. An opportunity was presented to share research on entrepreneurship education undertaken with a colleague of mine, Morgan Danaher on ‘A gestalt approach to entrepreneurship education’ and ‘Curricular developments in entrepreneurship education in an Irish second level school’. These and other papers generated keen discussion and commentary in group and plenary sessions.
Gerard Slattery
Lecturer in Education (Business), Course Director Professional Master of Education (Business)
University of Limerick, Ireland. +353 61 202813