An EU entrepreneurial skills development project

Gaál, Béla

Keywords: EU project, small and medium-sized enterprises, non-business studies

Mastering at least the basic level of business studies is important for everyone. This requires the development of an EU project that can create the common interests of the institutions, teachers and students, drawing on external enterprises and organisations as required. This can only be supported by national applications, and by applications and targeted projects restricted to organisations operating in higher education. An important task is to involve graduates in the teaching, coaching and preparation of case studies. It would be sensible to establish a foundation for the partial funding of the project, which graduates could support with some form of rebate. In time this resource could be enough in itself to finance the internal, higher education applications. The building of international relations is of particular significance in all this. The process may also be supported by EU applications. An example of this is practice-oriented training, which ran from 1998 – partly based on case studies – and in which Hungarian, Polish, German, Lithuanian, Latvian, Italian, Spanish and Romania universities, among others, participated.
One important task – as in the current project – is for the EU, in collaboration with experts, to regularly monitor the situation that has developed and to initiate the implementation of supplementary measures, support and other incentives. It makes sense to supplement the operation of the committee with on-site inspections and advice. (The cooperation of national experts is required for this.)