Support services for student entrepreneurship in higher education

The webinar is connected to the Community for Educational Innovation, an initiative of the Erasmus+ programme.

19 May 2025

About the webinar

During this webinar, we will explore how higher education institutions help their students to transform their entrepreneurial ideas into concrete initiatives. We will focus on the ways in which institutions support student-led entrepreneurship through extra-curricular and co-curricular offerings. These may include incubation and acceleration programmes, mentorship schemes, networking opportunities with start-up ecosystems, and access to seed funding.

The webinar will feature institutional and student perspectives that show how these services operate in practice and how they contribute to the development of entrepreneurial mindsets and capabilities.

It is part of the first Thematic Strand of Community for Educational Innovation, dedicated to Entrepreneurial Skills in Education.

Topics include:

Higher education institutions’ support services for entrepreneurship into academic life
Good practices in incubation, acceleration, mentoring, and promoting entrepreneurship
The role of networks, ecosystems, and cross-sector partnerships in enabling student entrepreneurship
Perspectives from students on innovation and entrepreneurship

Practical information

The webinar will take place on Wednesday, 19 May, 15.30-17.00 Central European Time (CET).

Registrations run up until and including 19 May 2025.

Speakers

Thomas Crispeels: Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and chair of the Brussels Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
Rita Dias: President of the Erasmus Student Network
Sara Proença: Director of the INOPOL entrepreneurship academy at the Polytechnic University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Who can participate

The webinar is open to anyone interested in developing innovation and entrepreneurship in education.

This includes:

university staff
researchers
PhD students
professors
teaching assistants
education policy makers
practitioners
academics

About the organisers

The webinar is organised by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture in collaboration with the PPMI Group. It is an initiative of the Erasmus+ Programme.

This webinar is part of the Community for Educational Innovation (CEI), which the European Commission created to bring together policymakers, practitioners, and members of the business sector to promote innovation in education at all levels.

Last updated:

30 April 2025

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