Representatives from the University, University of Bayreuth (Germany), and University of Porto (Portugal) and University of Cantabria (Spain) met in Santander, Spain, to exchange best practice and share details of their university student entrepreneurship programs.

For two days, representatives, who specialize in innovation and entrepreneurship from the four universities, exchanged proposals and developed a strategic alliance to implement a European entrepreneurship program across all four Universities. This was also an important opportunity for the University representatives to meet with students and entrepreneurs who are currently participating in the University of Cantabria e2 entrepreneurship programme.

The e2 program aims to encourage entrepreneurship among students and singular structure. The programme organizes interdisciplinary working groups formed by a ‘student tutor’ who coordinates four other students of different qualifications and for an ‘entrepreneur-mentor’ that guides and supports them to generate a business idea. The programme manages to combine ideas, enthusiasm and talent of young people with the experience of veterans of the business world.

Following on from this initial meeting, the four Universities agreed to continue to work with each other in the joint development of a methodology to serve as good practice for any university to develop the program, framing activities in the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.

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