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The EntreAction project held a training workshop for entrepreneurship teachers from 27 to 31 March 2023 at the Maritime University of Szczecin, Poland. Sixteen (16) in-person and twelve (12) online participants from the implementing partner universities (2 from Leipzig University) were trained on visual thinking practices and how to tell a business story with audio-visual content from paper to deployment. In addition, entrepreneurship education cases were broadly and extensively discussed.

The consortium partners presented interesting business stories that were unique and inspiring, sharing practical experiences of the various steps of the entrepreneurship/business development processes. These stories will enable the teams to gather the information necessary to define the learning goals of future videos. Elements such as the significance of story titles and the methodological and educational foundations of the stories were discussed. Leipzig University presented five (5) cases of start-ups incubated under the SMILE initiative.

There were discussions about the potential areas for conflicts of interest, the technical aspects of filmmaking, the requirement for a framework for teachers to be developed, and the need to cover more pedagogical aspects on challenges, problems, conflicts, and openness, all of which are crucial for students' training in entrepreneurship. There were also teamwork scenarios where participants were trained to produce short movies.

Funded under the European Commission Erasmus+ Cooperation partnerships in higher education initiative, the project focuses on developing digital tools for modern educational processes, combining participatory learning and creative learning/teaching. Furthermore, it seeks to synergise knowledge, skills, and competencies adequate to the realities of Industry 4.0 and 5.0 and prepare more digitally literate teachers at HEIs. - St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Leipzig University (SEPT Competence Center, Germany), Maritime University of Szczecin (Poland), Science4People (Poland), Tampere University of Applied Sciences (Finland), University of Aveiro (Portugal), and Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Turkey).

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