Workshops

General Information

IEEC is known for its highly interactive, participant focused parallel sessions.  These are specifically structured to explore the successes and challenges of working in this area, and to support both the delegates and the presenter to explore issues, opportunities, and constraints through a number of themed tracks.
This call for submissions invites proposals for interactive sessions informed by research, practice or both.
Context and tracks
Enterprise educators and practitioners support people to acquire entrepreneurial capability in all its forms. Enterprise education has many purposes; it may assist people to start or grow a business, it may produce more enterprising employees or ‘intrepreneurs’ or it may equip people with the attributes to bring about societal change through social enterprise. There are also intangible outcomes of enterprise education that contribute towards creating more entrepreneurial cultures where people are equipped to contribute positively to the economy, to society and to the environment.
Within this broad context presenters/facilitators of interactive sessions are invited to submit proposals for one of the following tracks:
• Engaging students
• Curriculum design and delivery
• Supporting business start-up
• International collaboration
• Cross sector integration
• The entrepreneurial institution
Whichever track you choose we would like you to address 3 challenges:
*What works?*
*Why does it work?* and
*How do you know that it works?
Format of sessions
As an educator conference, we encourage joint submissions, which explore the track themes from a variety of perspectives (including co-presenters from different faculty / HEIs / pedagogical stance).  Additionally submissions that compare and contrast approaches across traditional boundaries, or explore barriers/issues within different areas are particularly welcome (these may be institutional; discipline; faculty or subject specific).
We also encourage submissions that specifically provide “take-away” knowledge, experience, practice for other participants.
The interactive nature of sessions is of paramount importance. Proposals must demonstrate how a maximum of 20 minutes presentation will be blended with audience engagement and participation to create multi-directional exchanges and meaningful learning.
Track Chairs will assist presenters to achieve this balance of presentation and interaction.
Audience
As an educator conference, IEEC 2010 will attract interest from those:
a. Teaching enterprise and entrepreneurship within FE and HE
b. Supporting extra curricula activities in those sectors
c. Supporting start-up and early stage businesses
d. Supporting student and graduate entrepreneurs
e. Working in HE and FE to support career development/management
f. Working in government departments and public sector agencies
g. Influencing policy in the area of enterprise and entrepreneurship education

IEEC is known for its highly interactive, participant focused parallel sessions. These are specifically structured to explore the successes and challenges of working in this area, and to support both the delegates and the presenter to explore issues, opportunities, and constraints through a number of themed tracks. Proposals were invited for interactive sessions informed by research, practice or both.

Context and tracks

Enterprise educators and practitioners support people to acquire entrepreneurial capability in all its forms. Enterprise education has many purposes; it may assist people to start or grow a business, it may produce more enterprising employees or ‘intrepreneurs’ or it may equip people with the attributes to bring about societal change through social enterprise. There are also intangible outcomes of enterprise education that contribute towards creating more entrepreneurial cultures where people are equipped to contribute positively to the economy, to society and to the environment. Within this broad context presenters/facilitators of interactive sessions were invited to submit proposals for one of the following tracks:

  • Engaging students
  • Curriculum design and delivery
  • Supporting business start-up
  • International collaboration
  • Cross sector integration
  • The entrepreneurial institution

Format of sessions

As an educator conference, joint submissions were encouraged which explored the track themes from a variety of perspectives (including co-presenters from different faculty / HEIs / pedagogical stance).  Additionally there were submissions that compared and contrasted approaches across traditional boundaries, or explored barriers/issues within different areas (wheher these were institutional; discipline; faculty or subject specific). Also encouraged were submissions that specifically provided “take-away” knowledge, experience and practice for other participants. The interactive nature of sessions was of paramount importance. Proposals had to demonstrate how a maximum of 20 minutes presentation could be blended with audience engagement and participation to create multi-directional exchanges and meaningful learning. Track Chairs assisted presenters to achieve this balance of presentation and interaction.

Audience

As an educator conference, IEEC 2010 attracted interest from those:

a. Teaching enterprise and entrepreneurship within FE and HE

b. Supporting extra curricula activities in those sectors

c. Supporting start-up and early stage businesses

d. Supporting student and graduate entrepreneurs

e. Working in HE and FE to support career development/management

f. Working in government departments and public sector agencies

g. Influencing policy in the area of enterprise and entrepreneurship education