Approaches to support disruptive innovations within entrepreneurship education

Abstract

Due to COVID-19, disruptions in many sectors i.e., social, political, labor, economic and education have been produced. Education is one of the key factors for development and also for improving competitiveness and growth of countries. The role of entrepreneurship education and training institutions is to prepare students for entrepreneurial practices and develop entrepreneurship competences. The transition from face-to-face teaching to online ones creates many difficulties for students, educators and institutions to adapt quickly. But the required changes within education due Covid-19 also open the way for new forms of teaching and learning within entrepreneurship education i.e., to develop and use interdisciplinary education forms as well as more practical oriented lifelong learning approaches and use the support of digital learning platforms. This paper presents some consequences of the pandemic in the field of digital teaching and learning models within entrepreneurship education and lifelong learning. Second some improvements are proposed in this context which have been tested by the Lifelong Learning Study Group of the IAT also within European projects.