The PROMISE project aims to address the challenge of developing a broad entrepreneurial mindset among students in higher education institutions. This shift towards teaching soft skills is crucial in the face of unpredictable job markets and societal transitions. Professional Noticing has the potential to support the development of entrepreneurship competencies and enable students to bridge the gap between learning and real-life situations.
Our project aims to contribute to the evolution of higher education in the 21st century by identifying new practices that enable effective teaching of entrepreneurial competences.
In the past two decades, entrepreneurial education has undergone a significant shift, focusing more on the development of a broad entrepreneurial mindset, which is particularly relevant to business and management courses traditionally taught through business planning and linear thinking. Recent years have shown that tomorrow’s entre- and intrapreneurs need skills to identify and act on all types of ideas against the backdrop of unpredictability, a fast-changing labour market, and societal transitions.
The publication will review state-of-the-art knowledge on Professional Noticing (PN) for entrepreneurship. The kit will also include accompanying case studies, which will provide empirical evidence of how PN can be implemented in different contexts. Additionally, the kit will offer guidance on digital tools and strategies for teaching PN, making it a valuable resource for educators and trainers in the field of entrepreneurship.
The Open Educational Resources (OERs) will be a set of integrated teaching resources that will include lesson activities, multimedia content, assessment ideas, and teachers' implementation guides for higher education (HE) and vocational education and training (VET). These resources will provide a comprehensive framework for teaching PN to students and will be freely accessible online.
This project will involve at least 60 teachers from four partner institutions who will use PN in teaching activities with 300 students. Through the study's internal data collection, this project will lead to a published research paper and conference presentations that will share the findings of the empirical study and the evaluation of PN as a methodology for improving the quality of entrepreneurship education and producing more work-ready students.
The final project result will be a published research paper and conference presentations that will share the findings of the empirical study and the evaluation of PN as a methodology for improving the quality of entrepreneurship education and producing more work-ready students. This paper will be based on the data collected from the empirical study and will provide insights into how PN can be effectively used in the classroom to improve the quality of entrepreneurship education.
