Erasmus+ Ulysses

 

ULYSSES CONTEST – DIGITAL STUDENT COMPETITION ON FAMILY BUSINESS

Ulysses Contest is a digital student competition which is based on the solution of case studies compiled about family firms.

Project partners assemble an exciting and challenging collection of case studies, that present practical real-life problems of local family firms from Austria, Hungary and Germany which shall be solved by the entrepreneurship competences of students in higher education.

The project leader University of Szeged together with project partners Management Center Innsbruck (Austria), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy), University of Vienna (Austria), Univations GmbH (Germany), and marketing agency Agentur fundus GmbH (Austria) are organizing the first European contest in which students solve practical problems of local family firms.

University students from all over Europe can participate in the digital competition. Participation is worthwhile for both sides: students have the chance to apply their theoretical knowledge from the university. Family businesses benefit from the proposed solutions and can establish contacts with future graduates and promising specialists.

A pan-European competition of this kind is being held for the first time. It is funded by the European Union and its Erasmus+ program with a duration of 2 years.

Target groups

  • Students: The primary target groups of the Ulysses project include students of higher education institutions. As it is a challenge for students to study along the lines of traditional education methodology: they have a desire to use modern tools and get familiar with real-life challenges
  • Lecturers: Ulysses supports lecturers by providing a new education methodology resource, real-life knowledge and improving digital competences
  • Family firms: Family firms benefit by collecting solutions to special problems related to their family businesses through proposed solutions of student case studies.

DigComp - EntreComp

ULYSSES also propagates the exploitation of the European Frameworks on Digital Competences (DigComp) and Entrepreneurship Competence (EntreComp) inside higher education institutions. It will develop scalable online open-educational resources that focus on fostering digital and entrepreneurship competences and will catalyze digital readiness and entrepreneurial competence deliverance of involved students and educators.

 

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