Bucharest University of Economic Studies: Developing a Strong and Distinct Position for Providing Entrepreneurship Education

Abstract

Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE) offers a portfolio of diversified Bachelor, Master, MBA and PhD programmes in the field of Business Administration related to entrepreneurship, mostly provided via its Faculty of Business Administration in Foreign Languages (FABIZ). The Faculty’s mission is to form specialists in business administration, able to meet both the development needs of multinational companies operating in Romania and the requirements of Romanian companies interested in expanding at international level, as well as the desires of their students to become entrepreneurs. As indicated by its name, all curricular entrepreneurship offers at FABIZ are taught in foreign languages, especially in English, French and German. Moreover, international team teaching is employed in all three language tracks. Of particular interest is the Entrepreneurship and Business Administration in the Energy Sector Master programme offered at FABIZ, which is the first programme in Eastern Europe with a focus of Entrepreneurship in the energy sector. One extra-curricular activity of importance at ASE and FABIZ is the Junior Achievement Programme (JAP), which is an international start-up programme where students present their business ideas at a national competition. Professors from FABIZ integrate JAP into their curricular offers and provide start-up counseling and coaching to the students during the project in cooperation with external coaching from entrepreneurs. In the past, FABIZ students won the JAP and thereby gained fundamental support in implementing their business ideas.