Global Entrepreneurship Education Summit (GEES)
Dates: TBC | Porto, Portugal
EIA is excited to host the annual Global Entrepreneurship Education Summit (GEES), which brings together universities worldwide to network and share the best practices of innovative ways of teaching entrepreneurship.
The interactive conference offers insight to the world’s leading entrepreneurship program and the digital champion of Europe teaching methodology, case studies from UC Berkeley, Silicon Valley, and elsewhere and gives valuable opportunity to expand your professional network by meeting other faculty, mentors, and speakers from the world’s top universities and companies.
Become a pioneer in the classroom and unlock your student's and university's potential in entrepreneurship education!
2023 SUMMIT TIMELINE
The 2024 program will be announce in January 2024.
26 July 2023
9:30-10:00 | Registration, meet & greet |
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10:00-10:15 | Official Opening |
10:15-11:30 | I session – Entrepreneurship Education Today and Tomorrow
This speech will explore the critical importance of experiential learning in entrepreneurship education. Attendees will learn about the benefits of experimenting, adapting, and collaborating, and how these practices can help entrepreneurs succeed in a rapidly evolving business landscape. By embracing vulnerability and taking risks, we can equip the next generation of entrepreneurs with the skills they need to thrive in an uncertain world. Jorim Holtey-Weber.
EXPAND is a 3-year Erasmus+ project. This is a challenge-based accelerator program & toolbox for university students and teaching staff, focused on tackling major societal problems. Diana Antão, Raquel Oliveira |
11:30-12:00 | Coffee break |
12:00-13:00 | II session – The Future of Entrepreneurship Education Panel SessionIt’s a challenge to teach entrepreneurship theory in universities and business schools, as the world changes in seconds. How to build bridges to the theory-practice gap and grow the mindset of an entrepreneur? Panel discussion of the future education methods will be moderated by Gerda Noormägi, CEO of EIA |
13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
14:00-15:30 | III session – Latest Studies and Practices on Innovative Entrepreneurship Education
What matters in online learning? What has to change to engage learners across geographies and time zones? What unique challenges exist across asynchronous, synchronous, and hybrid learning? Hear Angela Lee’s practical tips and tools in this session.
Entrepreneurship education today is no longer a question of if it can be taught or should be taught (questions that were prevalent in the last decade or so). It is more on how it should be taught. There is a growing and almost convergent global consensus that entrepreneurship education should be experiential. But what is Experience – or the essence of Experience that we plan in experiential entrepreneurship education? I think the answer here lies in diversity of experience as well as complexity of experience. This talk will try and delve into understanding this essence so that we may go on and design/weave/build even better experiential learning modules for tomorrow. There will be examples of different experiences, simulations, observations and learnings that I have made throughout the years teaching Entrepreneurship across various faculties – Business, Science, Engineering, Humanities etc. Rajiv Vaid Basaiawmoit.
In this presentation, we’ll discuss what we learned from running a social innovation competition at Georgia Tech, called Ideas to Serve. We’ll describe its evolution from a stand-alone heropreneur, student-centered approach to a course-based, equitable, partner-centered collaboration. Learn how you can prepare students to be effective and empathetic social entrepreneurs by purposefully elevating community-based organizations as co-educators. Dori Pap and Susan Davis. |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00-17:00 | IV session – Case Studies on Using Innovative Entrepreneurship Education Methods
The perceived effectiveness of serious game pedagogy for students has been demonstrated earlier. Yet, the emphasis has often been on the technics, serious game itself, its content, and aims. Much less emphasis has been given to the role of the teacher; as if anyone could run a serious game and the learning outcome would be the same. Our study demonstrates that a nexus, “facilitator-serious game”, seems to be central to the production of positive learning outcomes in serious game-based pedagogy. Indeed, the role of the facilitator seems to be as important as the game itself for the increase in the entrepreneurial motivation and aspirations of students, rather than merely providing fun and entertaining teaching session for them. Yosra Boughattas and Erno Tornikoski.
The Conestoga Gig Lab helps individuals monetize their professional skills by launching a freelance business over the course of 15 weeks. Self-directed careers are more popular than ever and demand for freelancers is high as companies seek to build flexible capacity to fuel growth. The Gig Lab has been designed to address the nuances and specific needs of freelancers while developing the skills, mindsets and tools to flourish in the professional Gig Economy. Rose Mastnak |
from 19:00 | Networking Dinner at V.P.(Rua do Choupelo 39, 4400-088 Vila Nova de Gaia) |
26 July 2023
9:30-10:00 | Registration, meet & greet |
---|---|
10:00-10:15 | Official Opening |
10:15-11:30 | I session – Entrepreneurship Education Today and Tomorrow
This speech will explore the critical importance of experiential learning in entrepreneurship education. Attendees will learn about the benefits of experimenting, adapting, and collaborating, and how these practices can help entrepreneurs succeed in a rapidly evolving business landscape. By embracing vulnerability and taking risks, we can equip the next generation of entrepreneurs with the skills they need to thrive in an uncertain world. Jorim Holtey-Weber.
EXPAND is a 3-year Erasmus+ project. This is a challenge-based accelerator program & toolbox for university students and teaching staff, focused on tackling major societal problems. Diana Antão, Raquel Oliveira |
11:30-12:00 | Coffee break |
12:00-13:00 | II session – The Future of Entrepreneurship Education Panel SessionIt’s a challenge to teach entrepreneurship theory in universities and business schools, as the world changes in seconds. How to build bridges to the theory-practice gap and grow the mindset of an entrepreneur? Panel discussion of the future education methods will be moderated by Gerda Noormägi, CEO of EIA |
13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
14:00-15:30 | III session – Latest Studies and Practices on Innovative Entrepreneurship Education
What matters in online learning? What has to change to engage learners across geographies and time zones? What unique challenges exist across asynchronous, synchronous, and hybrid learning? Hear Angela Lee’s practical tips and tools in this session.
Entrepreneurship education today is no longer a question of if it can be taught or should be taught (questions that were prevalent in the last decade or so). It is more on how it should be taught. There is a growing and almost convergent global consensus that entrepreneurship education should be experiential. But what is Experience – or the essence of Experience that we plan in experiential entrepreneurship education? I think the answer here lies in diversity of experience as well as complexity of experience. This talk will try and delve into understanding this essence so that we may go on and design/weave/build even better experiential learning modules for tomorrow. There will be examples of different experiences, simulations, observations and learnings that I have made throughout the years teaching Entrepreneurship across various faculties – Business, Science, Engineering, Humanities etc. Rajiv Vaid Basaiawmoit.
In this presentation, we’ll discuss what we learned from running a social innovation competition at Georgia Tech, called Ideas to Serve. We’ll describe its evolution from a stand-alone heropreneur, student-centered approach to a course-based, equitable, partner-centered collaboration. Learn how you can prepare students to be effective and empathetic social entrepreneurs by purposefully elevating community-based organizations as co-educators. Dori Pap and Susan Davis. |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00-17:00 | IV session – Case Studies on Using Innovative Entrepreneurship Education Methods
The perceived effectiveness of serious game pedagogy for students has been demonstrated earlier. Yet, the emphasis has often been on the technics, serious game itself, its content, and aims. Much less emphasis has been given to the role of the teacher; as if anyone could run a serious game and the learning outcome would be the same. Our study demonstrates that a nexus, “facilitator-serious game”, seems to be central to the production of positive learning outcomes in serious game-based pedagogy. Indeed, the role of the facilitator seems to be as important as the game itself for the increase in the entrepreneurial motivation and aspirations of students, rather than merely providing fun and entertaining teaching session for them. Yosra Boughattas and Erno Tornikoski.
The Conestoga Gig Lab helps individuals monetize their professional skills by launching a freelance business over the course of 15 weeks. Self-directed careers are more popular than ever and demand for freelancers is high as companies seek to build flexible capacity to fuel growth. The Gig Lab has been designed to address the nuances and specific needs of freelancers while developing the skills, mindsets and tools to flourish in the professional Gig Economy. Rose Mastnak |
from 19:00 | Networking Dinner at V.P.(Rua do Choupelo 39, 4400-088 Vila Nova de Gaia) |
27 July 2023
9:30-10:00 | Morning coffee |
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10:00-10:05 | Opening of Day 2 |
10:05- 11:10 | V session – This is How we Do It:
In this session Zoe Hunter, Managing Director at the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking will provide practical resources for operationalizing diversity, equity, and inclusion within an entrepreneurship center. The presentation will provide practiced strategies, honest failures, and measurements of evaluation for the center’s key tenets: representative leadership, informed empathy, and inclusive participation.
In the era of innovation and entrepreneurship, it is crucial that universities connect more effectively with the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Portugal, promoting collaboration, the exchange of knowledge and the training of talent prepared to face the challenges of the market. |
11:10-11:40 | Coffee Break |
11:40-13:10 | VI session – Innovative Entrepreneurship Education Methods – Hands-on Workshop
Please join us for an interactive ‘behind the scenes’ journey to explore the style and activities that make the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship a best in class pedagogy.
We’re confident this workshop will give you practical ideas on how to approach your own entrepreneurship ecosystem challenges to build a program filled with lessons and activities that your students will not only use in the rest of their time at your University, but long into their careers! Pamela Induni, Susan Giesecke |
13:10-14:10 | Lunch |
14:10-16:10 | VII session – Poster sessionShare your experience and activities in the field of entrepreneurship education through a poster session. Pitch Your ideas and learn from colleagues! |
16:10 | Summary and closing |
27 July 2023
9:30-10:00 | Morning coffee |
---|---|
10:00-10:05 | Opening of Day 2 |
10:05- 11:10 | V session – This is How we Do It:
In this session Zoe Hunter, Managing Director at the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking will provide practical resources for operationalizing diversity, equity, and inclusion within an entrepreneurship center. The presentation will provide practiced strategies, honest failures, and measurements of evaluation for the center’s key tenets: representative leadership, informed empathy, and inclusive participation.
In the era of innovation and entrepreneurship, it is crucial that universities connect more effectively with the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Portugal, promoting collaboration, the exchange of knowledge and the training of talent prepared to face the challenges of the market. |
11:10-11:40 | Coffee Break |
11:40-13:10 | VI session – Innovative Entrepreneurship Education Methods – Hands-on Workshop
Please join us for an interactive ‘behind the scenes’ journey to explore the style and activities that make the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship a best in class pedagogy.
We’re confident this workshop will give you practical ideas on how to approach your own entrepreneurship ecosystem challenges to build a program filled with lessons and activities that your students will not only use in the rest of their time at your University, but long into their careers! Pamela Induni, Susan Giesecke |
13:10-14:10 | Lunch |
14:10-16:10 | VII session – Poster sessionShare your experience and activities in the field of entrepreneurship education through a poster session. Pitch Your ideas and learn from colleagues! |
16:10 | Summary and closing |
*EIA reserves the right to make changes to the agenda
SPEAKERS 2023
Who is the event for?
The GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION SUMMIT is designed to support university representatives who are:
- looking to enhance their university's entrepreneurship education and initiatives
- committed to overcoming challenges in entrepreneurship education
- seeking to expand their global network
An interactive conference on new methods, concepts, workshop tools, and best practices for the learning and facilitation of entrepreneurship education and innovation.
The Global Entrepreneurship Education Summit 2022 program is available here.
Here are some highlights of GEES 2023
TICKETS
All prices include the 2- day program, study materials, and the cocktail reception at the end of Day 1.
SUPER EARLY BIRD
€299
Until 18 August 2023
EARLY BIRD
€449
Until 31 January 2024
REGULAR BIRD
€599
Until 30 April 2024
LATE BIRD
€749
From 1 May 2024
* For representatives of universities that are part of the Erasmus+, fees may be subsidized through the Erasmus Staff Mobility.
Venue
Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto
R. Dr. Roberto Frias 464,
4200 Porto
Portugal
TESTIMONIALS
M. Nauman Farooqi, Ph.D.
Pam Induni
James Moore
What is EIA?
The Global Entrepreneurship Education Summit is part of the European Innovation Academy and offers a unique opportunity to be part of the world’s largest entrepreneurship program for 600+ students from 75 nationalities. EIA has become a recognized leader in global entrepreneurship education. Together with industry experts from the worlds’ leading multinational organizations our programs teach participants how to turn their idea into a startup. Learn more about our programs. Learn more about our programs.
Porto, Portugal
Easily accessible by international flights, Porto is the second largest city in Portugal. Located in the north of the country, Porto is a fascinating and vibrant city that has something to offer to every taste! The city itself is walkable, so you can easily explore the historic narrow streets, tourist attractions or enjoy the famous river walks and ocean views. Porto is also home to some of the best seafood and wine in southern Europe. And of course, it is famed for the production of Port wine!
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