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Global Entrepreneurial Talent Management 4
About GETM4
An international, interdisciplinary research and innovation project funded by the EU's Horizon programme, UKRI and the South Korean Education Ministry — €1.5 million over four years towards physical and mental wellbeing in a disrupted world, via entrepreneurial action underpinned by responsible digital innovation.
Who we are
We are a community of educators and researchers from 18 universities and industry bodies across Africa, Asia, Europe and South America. We have been working with young entrepreneurial people, higher education institutions, employers and different societies to find out how the entrepreneurial talent of individuals can be used to tackle challenging problems, and to take up the opportunities created by disruption and rapid change of all kinds.
GETM4 builds on GETM3, our previous Horizon 2020 project. Since then, work, study and collaboration have shifted decisively towards the digitally mediated, and that shift has changed what entrepreneurial talent is and what it can do. Our research follows it, with physical and mental health in the digital workplace as the throughline.
Through 368 funded staff exchanges, our researchers explore how entrepreneurial talent management can adapt to support sustainable careers in a digitalised working context — helping employers respond to disruption as well as to the opportunities that emerge from it.
Mission and mantra
To make a difference by collaborating across boundaries, in a welcoming international team.
“Doing differently makes a difference”
Research approach
Four kinds of crossing
GETM4's research approach is multidimensional in a specific sense: every question we ask has to travel. Four crossings shape how the work is designed, who takes part, and what counts as a result.
transnational
Eighteen institutions in nine countries across four continents, with knowledge moving in all directions rather than from north to south.
transsectorial
Universities, industry bodies and social enterprises working the same questions, so findings land in practice as well as in print.
transgenerational
Students, early-career researchers and professors as co-researchers — including young people as designers of the research, not only its subjects.
transdisciplinary
Management, law, information systems, computer science, political science, education, sociology, psychology and economics, on shared problems.
Disciplines
Nine disciplines sit around the same table. That is deliberate: the questions GETM4 asks — about wellbeing, work, education and digital innovation — do not belong to any one of them.