Entrepreneurship competences and sustainability mindset: Enactus Italy case study
Bavestrelli, Beatrice (2020-12-30)
30.12.2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe20201230103057
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe20201230103057
Tiivistelmä
Nowadays, college students have several ways to study and practice entrepreneurship, as well as to build a sustainable mindset. This thesis delves into this topic by identifying a unique model to both define which entrepreneurial skills are needed to define an entrepreneur, as well as
understand the components of a sustainable mindset. Through data collection, the thesis aims to analyse the development of entrepreneurial skills and the development of a sustainable mindset in Italian university students participating in a concrete experience in Enactus Italy.
Which is the world's largest experiential learning platform dedicated to creating a better, more sustainable world, in addition to identifying the motivation to join and stay at Enactus.
Subsequently, the thesis reports the impact of the latter growth on the students' careers. Finally, to understand how this development could be replicated and to enrich existing theory, the thesis reports the methods able to enabled the progress. The results of the research suggest that Enactus Italy mostly allows students to increase their confidence in their abilities. Indeed, Enactus allowed respondents to find practical solutions to
solve the issues they identified. Enactus has also brought few improvements in the theoretical education, mainly in the practical context, especially with regard to: self awareness, self efficacy and being able to mobilize others. As for the sustainable mentality, it is possible to define Enactus as a means to increase students’ motivation around sustainability, even through in most cases there was already an interest in impacting the Sustainable Development Goals. The thesis also lists the educational method in term of entrepreneurial skills and a sustainable mentality. During
the learning by doing experience of Enactus, the most cited were workshops, training, peer to peer mentoring, mentorship and feedbacks by business leaders, and by the mere observation.
The sustainable mindset, on the other hand, was more deeply rooted in the individuals who were more successful through Entrepreneurial action. Training and workshop activities have also been shown to be instrumental in mindset shaping. After the elaboration of the data collected,
the thesis reports the soft skills that Enactus has been able to instill in students, who were able to apply them in their career, even when this was in fields different than Entrepreneurship. The
most cited skills were: communication and public speaking, problem solving, creativity and teamwork. Other skills mentioned to a lesser extent were: collaboration, networking, leadership, organization, presentations' skills, openness to the world and think out of the box.
As for the sustainable mindset, Enactus has been a key career experience for 50% of the whole respondents, who have continued (or will continue) in the direction addressed by Enactus.
understand the components of a sustainable mindset. Through data collection, the thesis aims to analyse the development of entrepreneurial skills and the development of a sustainable mindset in Italian university students participating in a concrete experience in Enactus Italy.
Which is the world's largest experiential learning platform dedicated to creating a better, more sustainable world, in addition to identifying the motivation to join and stay at Enactus.
Subsequently, the thesis reports the impact of the latter growth on the students' careers. Finally, to understand how this development could be replicated and to enrich existing theory, the thesis reports the methods able to enabled the progress. The results of the research suggest that Enactus Italy mostly allows students to increase their confidence in their abilities. Indeed, Enactus allowed respondents to find practical solutions to
solve the issues they identified. Enactus has also brought few improvements in the theoretical education, mainly in the practical context, especially with regard to: self awareness, self efficacy and being able to mobilize others. As for the sustainable mentality, it is possible to define Enactus as a means to increase students’ motivation around sustainability, even through in most cases there was already an interest in impacting the Sustainable Development Goals. The thesis also lists the educational method in term of entrepreneurial skills and a sustainable mentality. During
the learning by doing experience of Enactus, the most cited were workshops, training, peer to peer mentoring, mentorship and feedbacks by business leaders, and by the mere observation.
The sustainable mindset, on the other hand, was more deeply rooted in the individuals who were more successful through Entrepreneurial action. Training and workshop activities have also been shown to be instrumental in mindset shaping. After the elaboration of the data collected,
the thesis reports the soft skills that Enactus has been able to instill in students, who were able to apply them in their career, even when this was in fields different than Entrepreneurship. The
most cited skills were: communication and public speaking, problem solving, creativity and teamwork. Other skills mentioned to a lesser extent were: collaboration, networking, leadership, organization, presentations' skills, openness to the world and think out of the box.
As for the sustainable mindset, Enactus has been a key career experience for 50% of the whole respondents, who have continued (or will continue) in the direction addressed by Enactus.