Project based learning and simulation of setting a company to enhance business mindset of master engineer students and international cooperation skills

摘要

The contribution deals with some models for teaching entrepreneurship mainly at Engineering Universities and Colleges particularly describing the case at Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Slovakia. The “Entrepreneurship Studies” is provided as an obligatory elective course for students of various Study Programs in the first year at their Master degree. Two-year period of piloting the new model of teaching the course to enhance students' business mindset revealed pros and cons of the approach that has been applied. Finally, situation in Entrepreneurship Education at a Russian University (Izhevsk state technical university of the name M.T. Kalashnikov) are described and some future proposal for international cooperation skills development are presented.