Training Approach

The ISTUD Entrepreneurship Programme (IEP) is a vocational course developed by the Italian Business school ISTUD. The programme's aim is to transfer and develop the attitudes and skills necessary to transform an ambitious and knowledge intensive business idea in a sustainable and fast growing company as well as to support the trainees in building their network.

The IEP combines different methodologies, aiming at making trainees protagonists of the learning process. Thus the class training foresees the employment of business cases, role playing, business games and other teaching approaches allowing, through the analysis of tangible situations, the implementation of operative and strategic problems to be solved and the elaboration of schemes of reference useful in the action. In particular the participants have specific chances to test, on the field, the acquired competences through the development of a tailored work plan in a real work context. This will be integrated with case studies, thoughts and focused lessons held by experts on the issue or by other entrepreneurs, in order to create the adequate connective fabric for the enterprise’s development.

The course is composed of 3 weeks of class based workshops, 2 months of meetings, individual and/or in groups (coaching), for assisting trainees in the business planning, with the support of sector’s experts and teaching staff and a final business plans presentation to a commission of early stage investors (business angels), giving the participants the opportunity to seek for start up money.

The ISTUD Entrepreneurship Programme has been selected as a practice to be transferred because of its following characteristics:

In the FASTER project, the IEP will be use as model for shaping regional training programmes respondent to the entrepreneurial context and needs of Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Cyprus.