Abstract:

Entrepreneurship plays an exceptional role in the development of economies and is a vital source of change in all aspects of society. Urbanization, globalization of markets, the 4th Industrial and educational revolution, new "breakthrough" technologies, longer life expectancy and constant change, greater change and the need for constant learning and frequent changes in the profession – only few reasons for development of entrepreneurship skills. Those skills are mentioned in The Top 10 skills in 2030 presented at World Economic Forum. Development for entrepreneurship and leadership and education of appropriate skills is needed - at least in higher education. And the main ways to do this are to include it to the formal education and different activities of non-formal education (such as projects of students' initiatives, students’ conferences, internships, study subjects (mandatory or optional) “Entrepreneurship and Leadership”, self-directed learning in EPALE and etc. The more examples of those methods and tools based on the experience of our university of applied sciences as well as the methodics of their implementing into the educational process will be presented in the article. Also the role and relevance of the cooperation among universities and industry will be discussed and illustrated by good practice examples

Keywords:

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Development of Entrepreneurship and Leadership, Higher Education, Cooperation with Industry.