Towards Sustainable Entrepreneurship: SMART Start Up Workshop in Wuppertal
Link to project: SMART Start-up: African Universities Edition
The workshop was held on 13th - 16th of April in Wuppertal, Germany. The aim of the training was to initiate universities and colleges in the issues and concepts of sustainable lifestyles and sustainable entrepreneurship. The workshop itself was designed to be an educate-the-educator workshop, meaning that the focus was not only on the content; sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship, but also on creative ways of sharing this knowledge once the participants are back in their countries. The workshop was designed to provide the participants with an introduction to experimental learning and learning-by‐doing. This included lots of content specific games, as well as other interactive activities to encourage creative thinking and collective brainstorming.
The workshop had 21 participants 9 of them were male, 8 were female, and they came from a wide range of academic backgrounds such as environmental studies, chemical engineering, as well as more business related areas. There was an age balanced mix of participants ranging from masters’ students to senior lecturers. The participants were drawn from universities and colleagues from Africa and Europe.
The training was part of the CSCP’s ongoing projects on sustainable entrepreneurship. The strategic involvement of the CSCP in entrepreneurship focuses mainly on the early start-up stages of business development, namely: Idealisation, start up, growth and maturity and aimed at promoting the concepts and patterns of sustainable consumption and production through sustainable business models. The Centre has consolidated its activities and initiatives on sustainable entrepreneurship under one initiative called SMART START UP.
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