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New Project „Cowork4EU: Coworking Best Practices for European Universities“

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In the EU-funded Erasmus+ project "Cowork4EU", the Junior Professorship for Entrepreneurship and Digitization of TU Dortmund University is researching best practices for the use of coworking in the university environment together with international partners from the Private University Schloss Seeburg in Austria (Prof. Dr. Christoph Stöckmann), Paris School of Business in France (Assoc. Prof. Ignasi Capdevila, PhD) and Prague University of Economics and Business in the Czech Republic (Ass. Prof. Marko Orel, PhD).

Within the project, several project outcomes will be pursued to make better use of the potentials of coworking and coworking spaces at universities. To this end, a joint course focusing on coworking and the integration of coworking spaces in university teaching will be established. This will be piloted with students from the four partner universities and further developed through accompanying research. The curriculum will serve as a blueprint to support other university teachers. In addition, the project team has set itself the goal of establishing an academic coworking network to further promote the exchange and mobility of students and researchers within Europe. The results of the project will be documented and published in the form of a best practice report.

The project duration is 36 months from 03.2022 to 02.2025.

Project leader and contact person for questions or cooperation offers is:

JProf. Dr. Simon Hensellek