INSPIRE Mentoring Workshop and Management Meeting in Cracow

Institutional Entrepreneurship & Employability Programme manager, Víctor Climent and OGPI Senior Project Manager, Noelia López, participated on 9^th and 10^th of July 2019, in the 4^th INSPIRE Project Meeting and Mentoring workshop that took place at Cracow University of Economics in Poland. During the management meeting, the current state of project activities and results were discussed, the mid-term report and first external evaluation report were presented and participants met with social entrepreneurs and the local Department of Entrepreneurship. Indonesian partners presented the outcomes of the Business Plan Competition and selected examples of business plans of social enterprises. Most of these students’ projects focused on local resources, traditions and empowering local communities.

Also, there were three mentoring training sessions where participants got to know a common understanding of the mentoring relationship and mentoring process, mentor’s potential benefits, documents concerning mentoring cooperation and mentoring process evaluation and possible problems that might occur during the one-year process.

Team members were encouraged to share their opinions on local and regional peculiarities that could have an impact on a successful mentoring relationship.

The aim of the INSPIRE Project is to promote the entrepreneurial mindset and innovation in Indonesian Higher Education Institutions by strengthening the University-Business cooperation for better employability of social entrepreneurs and increase their relevance for labour market and society.