Building Entrepreneurial Ecosystems to Enhance Higher Education Value-Added for Better Graduate Employability

The BEEHIVE project aims at building sustainable university-based entrepreneurial ecosystems in HEIs in ID and PH to enhance students’ and graduates’ entrepreneurial and innovation skills and their ability to create jobs. The project’s chief goal is to support the PC HEIs’ transformation into entrepreneurial universities, which in the long run will contribute to the development of knowledge-based societies/economies in ID and PH.The consortium combines the expertise of 4 EU HEIs in BG, GR, IS and IT and a Business and Innovation Center in IR, as well as 2 HEIs in ID, 3 HEIs and a Foundation in PH. The following key results will be achieved:1. Entrepreneurship for All MOOC to disseminate up-to-date training and knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship across the PC HEIs’ campuses and to build students’ entrepreneurial skills. At least 1000 PC HEIs students and graduates will benefit from the MOOC delivered in English through the project website.2. BEEHIVE Accelerator Programme induced at the PC HEIs to improve PC HEIs’ student and graduate employability and to create entrepreneurship-based self-employment opportunities through streamlined business start-up support in the framework of designated seed accelerators. At least 10 business start-ups will be created through the BEEHIVE programme.3. BEEHIVE Label designed to provide certification of PC HEI entrepreneurial ecosystems’ excellence and to stimulate PC HEIs’ gradual evolvement into entrepreneurial universities. At least 3 PC HEIs will be certified and awarded a BEEHIVE Label over the course of the project.The project introduces the novel holistic approach of entrepreneurial ecosystems that sees entrepreneurship not merely as individual efforts but as a process of networking and creating synergies between different stakeholders. Thus, through BEEHIVE PC HEIs will engage with a broad range of external stakeholders including business partners, investors, venture capitalists, social entrepreneurs, policymakers