• Researching the needs and expectations of entrepreneurs concerning stimulation of the development of entrepreneurship, innovativeness and creativity surrounding disruptive events to develop physical and mental wellbeing.
• Discovering entrepreneurs’ values in community and society and attitudes towards digital innovation and respectfulness.
• Exploring the relationship between entrepreneurs’ digital resilience and survival during disruptions.
• Understanding entrepreneurs’ opinions on main obstacles preventing the development of entrepreneurship, innovativeness and creativity in a disrupted environment, or in a respectful way including analysis of gender issues.
• Defining recommendations for effective use of entrepreneurs’ skills and characteristics in the context of gathered data and ethical use of contemporary artificial intelligence-based approaches.

• Overall research design. A report on the overall research design of the project, including the methodology of the work streams on (2/3/4/5).
• Typology of successful entrepreneurial strategies in the age of digitalized disruption. Identification and categorization of strategies that encompass a wide range of approaches employed by entrepreneurs to navigate the challenges and leverage the opportunities presented by the digital revolution.
• An Entrepreneurs’ handbook collecting entrepreneurs’ learnings and experiences.

All participants will participate in the design of research methodology, collaborate with other researchers on data analysis, collaborate with other researchers on the creation of deliverables, participate in networking activities and contribute to the integration of the deliverables with the other project’s results.

The evaluation of pedagogic approaches has historically focused either on a single pedagogical activity or an entire curriculum, and only on students’ or teachers’ perspectives. The goal of this work stream is to develop a methodology that allows for the evaluation of individual pedagogical activities from the perspective of young student entrepreneurs, teachers, industry, and Higher Education management. This approach will remodel collaboration between universities and entrepreneurs/industry to facilitate transforming explicit knowledge (gained in universities) to implicit knowledge (used in professional practices) and vice versa.

• Evaluations of current innovation in Higher Education. The evaluation will assess 3 different types of Higher Education innovation and will be aimed at informing curriculum development.
• A series of multidisciplinary case studies on design thinking / design science.
• Design and implementation of a replicable methodology for co-creative generative research for Higher Education.

This research stream will involve designing and hosting a series of generative research co-creative, design-led, multidisciplinary innovation projects engaging students as co-researchers to explore barriers to learning and curriculum gaps (from each stakeholder perspective) and best pedagogic response.

This work stream aims at understanding employers’ expectations and needs in the face of disruptive events and digitalization, focusing on employee competencies for predicting, adapting to, and managing change. It seeks to identify the content of the psychological contract between employers and entrepreneurial employees to establish effective talent management practices. Special attention will be given to understanding entrepreneurial employee attitudes and expectations, particularly in creating opportunities for women in engineering professions.

The research will also emphasize the importance of creating inclusive and healthy workplaces, exploring the role of organizational mindfulness in work-life balance. Furthermore, this work stream aims at establishing a supportive entrepreneurial environment for digital innovation in SMEs and other organizations. By considering diversity, including nationality, culture, gender, and occupation, we aim at improving resilience, adaptability, and exploitation ability. Additionally, it explores the potential of disruptive technologies in monitoring personalized health and well-being using environmental and physiological sensing and artificial intelligence (AI).

• Actionable recommendations and guidelines targeted at organisations for capturing entrepreneurialism of young employees, fostering an entrepreneurial mindset and creating opportunities that empower young employees to contribute innovatively and drive business growth.
• Practical recommendations and strategies to create a healthy and positive work atmosphere, ensuring employees’ mental and physical well-being while embracing digital technologies for enhanced satisfaction.
• Research and design towards an application providing valuable insights and promoting a healthier work environment.

You can actively participate in the design of research methodology, collaborate with other researchers on data collection and analysis, collaborate with other researchers to the creation of the deliverables, and participate in networking events.

This research stream looks at impacting the community and society, by exploring 4 key topics: education, mentorship, inclusion and ethics. Specifically, we will:

• Identify collaborations and new strategies to integrate the teaching of entrepreneurial skills within STEM programmes. Embedding the acquisition of entrepreneurial skills in STEM curricula is often a very challenging task for curricula designers.
• Research and measure the benefits of mentoring for students and industry practitioners. Mentoring is a double gain process in which not only students are supported in the acquisition of transversal skills meaningful for their future employability, but industry practitioners as well benefit from a direct relationship that often broadens their perspectives on the talents’ pipeline.
• Research how inclusive practices in Higher Education can be respectfully translated to non-EU partner institutions and vice versa. The overall aim of this task is to directly impact procedures and practices of the participating institutions, through guidelines and recommendations.
• Foster awareness of how technology impacts communities, through the creation of digital ethics related teaching resources.

• A collection of experiences from the partners’ experience on interdisciplinary and/or inclusive and/or community internships.
• Guidelines for inclusion and accessibility related to several pertinent areas such as class design, teaching approaches, assessment strategies and others.
• Multistakeholder mentoring recommendations.

For this research stream we will ask researchers:

• To collect information on the initiatives currently in place in each institution aiming at exchanging knowledge and best practices on how to implement meaningful internships that provide students with an impactful skillset in their future workplace.
• To review mentoring programmes in place within the partner institutions, from a students and industry practitioners’ perspective, and collaborate on creating a set of guidelines for establishing a successful mentoring relationship.
• To propose, assess or test inclusion related procedures and practices in each institution.
• To create open access case studies on the ethical implications of technology with a specific focus on technologies that have a relevant impact on the partner countries.