Central Balticum Entrepreneurship Interaction (CB ENTREINT)

The CB ENTREINT project aims at promoting entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviours in the Central Baltic (CB) area. The role of entrepreneurship education is underestimated in the Central Baltic region, and more intensive cooperation is needed between educators and entrepreneurs in the Central Baltics who are the main target group within the project. The project will develop and improve sustainable cross-border networks and training programmes, and the modules developed during the project will be used as a part of the training curricula in the higher education institutions participating in the project.

Project activities

• Analysis of the training needs of teachers of entrepreneurship in the CB area who are working with different levels of education;
• Analysis of company/university cooperation and modern business platforms;
• Development of a cross-border network among the CB company/university platforms, higher education institutions and development organisations;
• Development and piloting of a CB professional diploma programme in entrepreneurship pedagogy.

Partners

Aalto University School of Economics Small Business Center (Finland, lead partner)
Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia)
University of Tartu (Estonia)
Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (Latvia)
Latvian Technological Centre (Latvia)

Additional partners

City of Helsinki Economic and Planning Center
The Federation of Finnish Enterprises
Tallinn City Government City Enterprise Board
Tartu City Government
Association of Latvian Technological Parks, Centres and Business Incubators
Institute of Physics
SSE Riga Mentors’ Club

 Planned outcomes

• Increased awareness of entrepreneurship in the CB region;
• Cross-border professional diploma programme in entrepreneurship pedagogy for teachers;
• Developed models for the company/university interaction platforms;
• Cross-border learning experiences and forum for linking CB higher education institutions and development organisations;

The project receives financing from the Central Baltic Interreg IVA Programme 2007-2013, financed by the European Regional Development Fund; and national co-financing from the Regional Council of Southwest Finland.