Partnership for Entrepreneurial Engineering Education

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is identified as important development goal for the future of the modem industry. New technologies require greater entrepreneurial activity in order to further strengthen its economic position. Reformed technical and engineering education system in Serbia is directed to strengthening vocational knowledge and acquiring of key skills necessary to join the world of work and the whole society. The new concept of curriculum has been introduced which, among the others, contains teaching subject entrepreneurship as a novelty. Within this subject students acquire: skills of planning, organizing, analyzing, communicating, realizing and evaluating; abilities for team work; abilities for proactive behavior and positive reacting to changes; abilities for risk overtaking; positive attitude toward changes and innovation. This paper presents needs for model based on two-way communication and dialogue between learning and business environment. Main objectives of this partnership are: organization and joint efforts with the purpose of gaining wider public, making benefit of the enterprises of entrepreneurial education and development and improvement of the program of entrepreneurial education.