Entrepreneurship Education Bursaries

In pursuit of the overall GROWTHhub mission the GROWTHhub Entrepreneurship Education Bursaries support the design and development of pedagogical resources, from any discipline, that supports the different stages of student entrepreneurial learning and development pathways, including:

Creating enterprise awareness (and moving to interest through engagement with entrepreneurial role models, competitions and events)
Developing learner entrepreneurial mindset (including ambition, motivation, personal confidence, resilience, and tolerance of uncertainty/risk)
Developing learner entrepreneurial capabilities (including creativity, opportunity recognition, decision-making by critical analysis, interpersonal skills, and implementation of ideas by leadership)
Reinforcing entrepreneurial effectiveness attributes (including independent self-direction, appreciate and create multiple forms of value, and implement enterprising ideas)

We are also interested in receiving applications that:

Target groups where there is under-representation in entrepreneurial activities, and
Initiatives that can be delivered online and across all TU Dublin campus locations.

4th Call for the GROWTHhub Entrepreneurship Education Bursary Competition are now opened. The closing date for submissions is 15 January 2024.

Each bursary has a value of €5,000, and there are 15 bursaries available in this call. Bursaries can be used to support teaching buy-out and other costs associated with your project.

Areas in which bursary applications are sought include:

Initiatives that seek to develop entrepreneurial mindsets and skills

Initiatives that seek to develop entrepreneurial mindsets and skills. Such initiatives should foster transversal skills aimed at strengthening the knowledge, skills, and motivation to engage in entrepreneurial activities in a variety of settings; and opening up new learning opportunities through the practical application of entrepreneurial skills. Proposed initiatives in this area might include (but are not limited to):

Practical pedagogies illuminating the entrepreneurial process. For example, a structure or process for lecturers to bring people into the notion of the entrepreneurial mindset in different disciplines.
Development of cross-discipline tools, techniques, workshops, and games.
Scope out the development of a student marketplace. Develop a process/mechanism /rules of engagement/scaffold for how students can sell their skills to other students.
Design of new enterprise/innovation modules for programmes. These might be single discipline or cross-discipline or relevant to specific contexts (e.g. social entrepreneurship, cultural entrepreneurship, digital entrepreneurship, etc.).
Exposing students in discipline areas to entrepreneurship.

Initiatives that engage learners with enterprise

Initiatives that engage learners with enterprise and/or stimulate the flow and exchange of knowledge between HEIs and enterprises. Such initiatives could aim to create collaborative knowledge alliance platforms. Proposed initiatives in this area might include (but are not limited to):

Design Live Challenges which are fully embedded in the curriculum; teaming students, researchers, faculty, and enterprise and entrepreneurs.
Design a structured entrepreneurship internship programme.
Development of assessment/evaluation methodologies for enterprise engagement.
Development of a credited model of student engagement in entrepreneurship activities.
Organise (and run) an event, initiative and programme involving alumni.

Bursary projects that promote design thinking

Bursary projects that promote design thinking as a competence among students. Such initiatives could aim to foster stronger cross-discipline engagement, and be student or educator focused: Proposed initiatives in this area might include (but are not limited to):

Development of educator workshops on writing and managing entrepreneurship design briefs, problem exploration, and managing the creative process.
Development of ideation and low-fidelity prototyping workshops.
Design of cross-discipline design challenges.
Integrating design methodologies and frameworks into entrepreneurial practice.

Bursaries projects previously supported:

Capturing the entrepreneurial voice in entrepreneurship education (CEVEE)
Developing scalable data driven strategies and business models among Irish SMEs operating in an uncertain environment
PRISM Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
EntreComp OERs for Entrepreneurship
Interdisciplinary and Cross Faculty Enterprise Education
Enactus – Re-Energising Student-Led Social Entrepreneurship Initiative
Meitheal – Community Enterprise Education Initiative
Development and implementation of an undergraduate Science Innovation and Enterprise module
Fostering Digital Entrepreneurship
Design Thinking For Neurodiverse Students
Cultivating resilience and a growth mindset: Feasibility study to develop a taught programme to support entrepreneurial mindset
Design + Construct Collaborative Platform
Disciplined Innovation Process – Framework for managing value creation through Innovation.
Scaling Enterprises
Digital cultural Entrepreneur
A Critical Management Studies Pedagogy: Developing Critical Thinking Skills and Diversity of Thought in Entrepreneurial Education
Hack4Sustainability – Developing inter-disciplinary Level 9 module connecting entrepreneurial thinking & real-world business sustainability challenges.
How to Innovate: 10 conflicting answers
Entrepreneurship & Value Chain Reform within the global coffee, tea and chocolate industries
Capturing Student Impact on Irish Entrepreneurship - TU Dublin Entrepreneurship in Action Volume 1
Fostering Entrepreneurship Using the Important Fulcra of intellectual Property and Emerging Technologies
EntreComp Ireland Open Educational Resources (OER)
Gamification of Library Resources for Business Students
Enhancing Entrepreneurial Learning Outcomes – A “Working- backwards” approach.
Developing and Embedding a Pedagogy of Entrepreneurial Resilience in Education
Enhancing Entrepreneurial competency and Hardiness
Towards the Establishment of The Marketing Clinic: A Scoping Study into its Development
Project Greenlight

Applications:

Briefing document - GROWTHhub Bursary Call 4 briefing document
Applications - GROWTHhub Bursary Call 4 application form
Submit completed and signed application form in PDF format through this MS Form here

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