Equipping Entrepreneurs

November 2025 Newsletter

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Staying current is a challenge to entrepreneurship education?

Real-world needs are constantly changing, driven by technological disruption, AI integration, and shifting social and environmental priorities. Educators must therefore continuously refresh their skills and approaches to prepare students for the evolving professional landscape. Thriving on hands-on experience, industry collaboration, and a culture of creativity and risk-taking, entrepreneurship education must be embedded through systematic curriculum design, mentorship programs, and business incubators that bring these concepts to life. Sustained opportunities for professional development and direct engagement with entrepreneurs and business practitioners fosters practical, innovative skills in higher education - for teachers and students.

The ACEEU standards Service Alignment, Internal Support Structures, and Staff Profile help universities support their educators, ensuring they stay connected to current trends, are equipped with relevant tools, and encouraged to embed creativity, innovation, and real-world engagement into their teaching.

Projects

ACEEU's European Projects Unit fosters entrepreneurship in higher education through initiatives that upskill educators, create cross-sectoral collaboration, and develop practical tools to increase innovation.

Start-DSP empowers educators to integrate digital, sustainable, and ethical business practices into curricula, enhancing experiential learning, industry relevance, and students’ capacity to create impactful, socially responsible ventures.

BIAD equips educators with AI-driven, market-relevant tools and industry partnerships, enabling adaptive curricula, experiential learning, and entrepreneurship education that reflect real-world tourism and hospitality needs. 

I-RESTART equips educators and trainers to integrate digital, entrepreneurial, and green skills into curricula, enabling responsive workforce development, intergenerational knowledge transfer, and practical industry engagement in agrifood sectors. 

AI Leaders strengthens educators’ capacity to integrate AI and ethics into business and management curricula, fostering entrepreneurship education that combines practical skills, ethical awareness, and real-world industry relevance. 

ACEEU Accreditation and Events

ACEEU is dedicated to acknowledging entrepreneurship in higher education. Through our ⁠15 standards we promote transformation in the entrepreneurial profile of institutions all over the globe.

ACEEU Entrepreneurial University Accreditations

Telkom University in Indonesia and the University of Szeged (SZTE) were accredited as an ACEEU Entrepreneurial University this year. This makes SZTE the first institution in Hungary to achieve dual ACEEU accreditation. Both are joining a global network of institutions aiming to enrich higher education through strategic collaborations with industry and communities and affirming their leadership in driving innovation and societal impact through entrepreneurship.

Excellence in Action

The 2025 Global ACEEU Forum and Triple E Awards brought our community together to champion excellence in the Third Mission of higher education. Revive these moments of connection and achievement and see excellence in action as we celebrate this year's people and institutions leading change.

Spotlight Magazine

Spotlight Magazine shares articles designed around the 15 ACEEU accreditation standards, sparking ideas for advancing the Third Mission in higher education. Many of the articles are written by our Triple E Awards finalists!

From EU Project to Teacher Well-Being: The DIGITALTA Platform

Thomas Prola, Josep Alemany, and Emmanuel Flores detail the history and future of tackling teacher attrition beginning with the DIGITALTA platform's approach of self-reflection and expanding into a teacher well-being programme this October.

Empowering Innovation and Inclusion in Higher Education

Rafael Chanin showcases how PUCRS and TECNOPUC are integrating innovation, inclusion, and Challenge-Based Learning within the TIC em Trilhas programme, engaging over 12,000 participants to bridge academic learning with the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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