ERASMUS+ KA1 Projects - CYPRUS [2015+ ..]
MOVIN & MOVIN+[ERASMUS+] projects
The MOVIN & MOVIN+ projects implemented with ERASMUS+ funding involved 162 students and 20 teachers from Spain to Cyprus.
The 1st MOVIN project commenced in 2015 and was completed in 2016 with 4 flows (18 students & 2 teachers in each flow) and the 2nd project commenced in 2017 and will be completed in 2018 with 3 flows {30 students & 4 teachers per flow). The students and teachers follow a 2-week intensive entrepreneurship programme in Cyprus, which involves in-company training, based on the methodologies of Lego Serious Play, Design Thinking and Business Model Canvas. More specifically the students undertake to solve specific entrepreneurial challenges (product design, marketing strategy, operations, etc.) that their host companies face. By the end of the programme the teams come up with a complete business model of how the companies in question can address the entrepreneurial challenges they face. |
NOORDERPOORT, NL [ERASMUS+] projects
The cooperation with NOORDERPOORT Groningen, NL began in 2015 and continues until today. 83 students and 20 teachers (4 groups) came to Cyprus until 2018.
The students and teachers follow a 2-week entrepreneurship challenge. The students undertake, in teams of 5-8 members, to develop the Business Models for new Business Ideas. Each team together with a teacher who act as a business coach, select an initial business idea and using methodologies such as, the Business Model Canvas, Lego Serious Play and Design Thinking, and innovation techniques including, Brainwriting, World Café Dialogue, 5Ws & 1H, Six Hats Thinking and Storytelling, experiment and re-formulate their ideas and the individual building blocks of their business models until they reach an ideal business case.
By the end of the programme the teams come up with a complete business model of how they can go about to implement their business ideas. The programme concludes with the teams' elevator pitches in front a committee of fictional investors.
The students and teachers follow a 2-week entrepreneurship challenge. The students undertake, in teams of 5-8 members, to develop the Business Models for new Business Ideas. Each team together with a teacher who act as a business coach, select an initial business idea and using methodologies such as, the Business Model Canvas, Lego Serious Play and Design Thinking, and innovation techniques including, Brainwriting, World Café Dialogue, 5Ws & 1H, Six Hats Thinking and Storytelling, experiment and re-formulate their ideas and the individual building blocks of their business models until they reach an ideal business case.
By the end of the programme the teams come up with a complete business model of how they can go about to implement their business ideas. The programme concludes with the teams' elevator pitches in front a committee of fictional investors.