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INTRAPRISE CLOSING EVENT
August 2017


The Cyprus University of Technology, within the framework of the INTRAPRISE research project, invites you to a workshop on Corporate Entrepreneurship with title "INTRAPRISE - Infusing entrepreneurial skills in the corporate environment".


The workshop is addressed to employees and business executives, businessmen and students and will be held on Tuesday, August 29th, 2017, 9.30 .- 16.00 at the "Pefkios Georgiades" amphitheatre at the Andreas Themistocleous building of the Cyprus University of Technology.

Speeches will be held by external guests, such as Dr. Panagiotis Philimis, Founder and Director of the Cyprus Center for Research and Innovation (http://www.cyric.eu/), Dr. Panagiotis Zoumpoulakis, Senior Researcher of the National Research Foundation (http://www.eie.gr) and representatives of the organizations involved in the project consortium, such as the Cyprus University of Technology (http://www.cut.ac.cy) and companies R&Do (http://www.rndo.eu/) from Cyprus, FOUND.ATION (http://thefoundation.gr/) from Greece, MTC sprl. (Http://www.eu4u.eu/) from Belgium and MELIUS s.r.l. (Http://www.meliusitaly.eu/) from Italy.

The invitation as well as the agenda of the conference can be downloaded from the links provided. Those who are interested to participate, please inform us by August 17, 2017 via the link or email addresses provided in the invitation.

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PRESS RELEASE
August 2017


Mainstreaming the concept of intrapreneurship - EU funded project Intraprise final event in Cyprus

The final event of the EU funded project Intraprise 'Infusing Entrepreneurial Skills in the Corporate Environment’ was organised by the Cyprus University of Technology (project coordinator) at the premises of the University on the 29th of August 2017. The event aimed at disseminating both the Intraprise training platform, as well as the concept of Intrapreneurship to local and international stakeholders.



PRESS RELEASE
July 2017


An online training opportunity for aspiring intrapreneurs: The Intraprise e-learning platform

A direct result of research, needs identification and inquiry, the Intraprise e-learning platform has been brought into life in 5 languages (English, Greek, Italian, Romanian, and Spanish). The partners of the EU co-funded project Intraprise have collaborated, developed, tested, in order to come up with a full blown intrapreneurship self-paced learning course that can be accessed for free by all those who are interested to learn about the benefits of intrapreneurship: Managers and employees in the ICT business but also beyond – from the corporate world right down to the start-ups and prospect next big players in innovation through intrapreneurship.


The Intraprise training provision is covering basic knowledge on intrapreneurship, practices and tools on how to adopt and apply intrapreneurial cultures within companies, valuable material about the history and the new trends in intrapreneurship, culminating in guidelines for both individuals as employees/managers as well as companies as living structures, on how to best exploit intrapreneurship. As of now, we have presented the platform and its material in Cyprus, Greece, Spain, Italy, Belgium, and Romania in specially dedicated workshops. At the same time, we have invited selected professionals mainly from ICT companies across the project countries to have a deeper look at the training modules and share with us their suggestions for improvements. We are now revisiting our platform, integrating the most important suggestions in order to enhance the training and learning experience of future users.
While we are busy with all that, we thought that – why not – you can have a look at the Intraprise platform towards its final version here http://training.intraprise-project.eu.
The work in Intraprise is carried out by the Cyprus University of Technology (project coordinator), RNDO Ltd also coming from Cyprus, MTC sprl and Eurocio from Belgium, Militos Consulting S.A. and Found.ation from Greece, Melius s.r.l from Italy, Singular Logic from Romania, and Rambla Asesores (RBS) from Spain.
For more information you may visit the project website www.intraprise-project.eu or/and contact Dr. Diofantos Hadjimitsis at d.hadjimitsis@cut.ac.cy / Mr. Marios Tzouvaras at marios.tzouvaras@cut.ac.cy

Intraprise - Infusing entrepreneurial skills in the corporate ICT environment develops an intrapreneurial training program based on well-documented organisational structures and existing intrapreneurial practices. A specific training course curriculum will be designed and learning material will be offered through an online e-learning platform. Separate workshops will be held in Cyprus, Belgium, Greece, Italy, and Spain presenting the training material to selected ICT companies, offering the opportunity to use and test the learning provision over a period of approximately 3 months. The whole process will be monitored and evaluated, leading to the optimisation of the Intraprise Course on Intrapreneurship for ICT companies.


PRESS RELEASE
17/3/2015


INTRAPRENEURSHIP: the next big thing in the world of business

Intrapreneurship and the intrapreneur have entered the business vocabulary quite recently, but in a short time they have managed to attract interest, especially in the leading sector and industry of ICT. Competition, the need for the development of new ideas, the ever changing business and corporate environment, leave no options to simply overlook creativity wherever it comes from. Companies and businesses need all too often to rely on the innovative entrepreneurial potential of their human resources. What organisations have to do is allow intrapreneurship to flourish, stimulating and supporting potential intrapreneurs.


To this end, the EU funded project “Intraprise - Infusing entrepreneurial skills in the corporate ICT environment”, under the Erasmus+ programme of the European Commission, develops an intrapreneurial training program for ICT companies’ managers and employees to adopt an ‘intrapreneurial culture’ in their working environments. This will support practical training in intrapreneurial competences and skills through e-learning, on-the-job action, and peer-learning.

At the moment, we are exploring ‘the way things are done’ in the intracompany communities of ICT enterprises in Cyprus, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Romania, and Spain, the EU countries involved in Intraprise. From there on, we will start putting the bolts and nuts together to come up with intrapreneurial training material that fits the needs, the daily routines, and the attitudes of our prospect intrapreneurial ‘devotees’, who will then be given the opportunity to use and test our learning provision.

The work is carried out by the Cyprus University of Technology (project coordinator), RNDO Ltd also coming from Cyprus, MTC sprl and Eurocio from Belgium, Militos Consulting S.A. and Found.ation from Greece, Melius s.r.l from Italy, Singular Logic from Romania, and Rambla Asesores (RBS) from Spain.

For more information you may visit the project website www.intraprise-project.eu or/and contact Dr. Diofantos Hadjimitsis at d.hadjimitsis@cut.ac.cy / Mr. Marios Tzouvaras at marios.tzouvaras@cut.ac.cy

Intraprise - Infusing entrepreneurial skills in the corporate ICT environment develops an intrapreneurial training program based on well-documented organisational structures and existing intrapreneurial practices. A specific training course curriculum will be designed and learning material will be offered through an online e-learning platform. Separate workshops will be held in Cyprus, Belgium, Greece, Italy, and Spain presenting the training material to selected ICT companies, offering the opportunity to use and test the learning provision over a period of approximately 3 months. The whole process will be monitored and evaluated, leading to the optimisation of the Intraprise Course on Intrapreneurship for ICT companies.


Testing the Intraprise e-platform supporting intrapreneurship

Τhe Intraprise e-platform has been tested by diverse users across the EU (managers, employees, ICT professionals) for a period of two-and-half-months. We had a total of almost 100 users sharing with us their experience and opinion on the platform. Our testing audience comprised of 21 online users, reporting on their hands-on experience in selected training modules, plus 76 participants having been presented with the Intrapise platform in separate sessions in Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Romania.


interesting intrapreneurship events coming soon! (by Intrapreneurship Conference)

15-17 November 2017, Toronto, Building an innovation system Info: https://www.intrapreneurshipconference.com/toronto/ and 25-16 January 2018, Singapore, Beyond Innovation theatre https://www.intrapreneurshipconference.com/singapore/


How could trainers and consultants make the best out of the Intraprise training provision. Free, downloadable guide here

This concise guide, developed by the Intraprise partnership, serves as a supporting tool for instructors to facilitate an integrated learning process as based on the Intraprise training material available online in the Intraprise e-platform.


A top-down support of intrapreneurship in Wales

The Welsh Government’s Business Wales service supports new and established businesses in Wales. Intrapreneurship is directly supported by the "Wales routemap", which includes "Being enterprising while working”.

Read the story here


SURVEY ON INTRAPRENEURSHIP IN THE ICT SECTOR

Are you a manager or an employee working in the ICT sector? Are you the CEO, the owner or a shareholder of a company in that sector?

INTRAPRISE - Infusing entrepreneurial skills in the corporate ICT environment is an EU funded project under the Erasmus+ Programme developing an intrapreneurial training programme to boost your skills, your career and your company’s growth.

By participating in this survey you are providing Intraprise with valuable information and insights on how an intrapreneurial culture can be best supported and promoted through training for ICT companies’ employees and managers.

The survey has been closed! Results will be published here soon. Thank you for your participation!


Upcoming intrapreneurship events 2016

Check out dates and places:

Brussels, February 25, 2016
Amsterdam, March 17, 2016
Paris, April 14, 2016
Munich, May 11-13, 2016

Entrepreneurship Teaching, Research and Practice in Global Environment – Building Bridges
8 - 10 June 2016, Nessebar, Black Sea, Bulgaria

Seventh International Conference


The 5th Intrapreneurship Conference is approaching! It will be held in London, 27-29 May 2015. Find out more in the Intrapreneurship Conference website.


Read here a short, simple, but comprehensive account on Entrepreneurship vs Intrapreneurship.