Study Guide

Description

Sustainable Entrepreneurship module is linked to the common learning outcome of Innovation at Tampere Universities. The entrepreneurship module provides students with capabilities to act as a sustainable entrepreneur or be an entrepreneurial minded actor across all sectors.

Objectives

The module is designed to prepare you for entrepreneurship and provide you with an understanding of global challenges and the importance of development and innovation activities in addressing these challenges. Upon completion of the module, you will also have the ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team, think creatively and develop customer-oriented, sustainable and economically viable solutions that can potentially have a renewing role in working life.

Prerequisites

Pre-requisite to the courses is interest to multidiciplinary teamwork and motivation to solve challenges.

Optionality

Choose 15 - 60 cr

Optionality information

These studies are applicable for all students within Tampere University. The module can form a minor (at least 15 cr).

Curriculum development and working life cooperation

This curriculum utilises the Euroopan Entrepreneurship Competence framework –model (EntreComp 2016) and its 15 entrepreneurial competences. These are linked to both content planning and evaluation criteria. United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, Agenda 2030 is a strong influencer for the curriculum content.

Tampere University students’ course feedback and development ideas have been carefully listened when structuring this module. Other local sourses of inormation are State Youth Council 2019 (Nuorisobarometri 2019).

This curriculum is in line with Arene and Unifi’s quidelines on Sustainable Development and responsibility (2020) and Supporting Entrepreneurship at Universities (2019).