Designing and Delivering a Cross-Campus Entrepreneurship Education Program

Are entrepreneurs born or made on campus? This is one of the most frequent questions in the literature about student entrepreneurship. The field of study about career anchors is one of the most investigated factors, and it is widely recognized that entrepreneurship education should be expanded beyond economics faculties and business schools. The purpose of this paper is to present the process of designing and delivering a cross-campus Entrepreneurship course customized on varied non-economic fields of study (engineering, mathematics, nature sciences, health, social sciences, humanities, and arts) and tailored to the local business environment developed in an integrated manner in the package with two other courses: Career coaching and Life skills. The courses were developed within a project financed by the European Social Fund - "Entrepreneur for the Future" (AntreV), from 2019-2021. Upon completion of the AntreV project, the developed courses were integrated into the curricula of the 14 faculties of the University of X, Romania (as optional or facultative courses) starting from the academic year 2021-2022. The paper provides an innovative approach to cross-campus entrepreneurship education, specifically on course design and delivery, that integrates education for entrepreneurship with career coaching and life skills education.