The main aim of the Transforming Entrepreneurship Education (acronym: TrEE) project is to change EE’s direction and practice in Europe. The team will start the TrEE project on December 1st 2022.

In its essence, the TrEE project is about creating the resilience that is needed to deal with the major crises of our times, and the growing complexities of the societal challenges that come with them, both ecologically as well as socially. Entrepreneurship has the potential to contribute to solving as well as worsening some of such contemporary societal challenges.

In this project, we propose to decouple EE from the creation of (high-growth) businesses, and instead put its (creative) potential to work to help enact more just futures, for ‘people’ as well as ‘planet’. This entails shifting towards innovating without exhausting planetary resources, addressing social inequalities, and becoming more inclusive. In short, this entails a justice for all life; human and more-than-human. This means making changes in the way we currently enact EE, finding new pedagogical premises, and developing new course formats, materials, and assignments.

Concretely the project aims at elaborating new pedagogical approaches; developing & validating relevant course designs, materials, and teaching interventions and at organizing training activities (educate-the-educator). The project will run until the end of 2024.

Photo: Jens Olof Lasthein

The consortium consists of representatives from six European higher education institutions: Professor Karin Berglund from Stockholm Business School at Stockholm University, Professor Sarah Dodd from the University of Strathclyde, Professor Ulla Hytti from the University of Turku, Professor Sarah Jack from Stockholm School of Economics, Serxia Lage Arias from the Instituto de Educación Secundaria Fernando Wirtz Suárez and Associate Professor Karen Verduijn from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Project website: transformingee.eu
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Further information is available also from the team leader at Stockholm Business School:

Karin Berglund
Professor in business with specialisation in entrepreneurship and Deputy Head of School