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ZUZANA KOŽÁROVÁ,
Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Podnikni niečo!
The training programme ‘Podnikni niečo!“ (‘Do something!‘ or ‘Start your own
business!’) was developed in cooperation between the Centre of Social and
Psychological Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Counselling
Centre of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice.
The programme is focused on the development of 2 key competencies:

entrepreneurship and career adaptability. In the course of 8 weeks, participants
(University students) are led to thinking about their career paths, identifying
their strengths and weaknesses and they can assess their entrepreneurial
potential. By the end of the development programme, participants should
be able to identify both benefi ts and obstacles of starting own business. As
an outcome of the programme, students-participants develop their own
business plan which is then presented in front of the class and they receive
a feedback on its feasibility.
Various activities are employed during the programme delivery (including
presentations, brainstorming sessions, group work, discussions with local
businessmen) based on the ‘learning by doing’ method. Diff erent modules

(assessment of entrepreneurial potential, identifi cation and development of
a business idea, creation of business plan and self-presentation) complement
each other to provide participants with a complex overview of what the
process of starting own business entails. The training programme runs for
8 weeks (2-hours session per week) and is off ered to University students free
of charge.

More info:
https://www.upjs.sk/pracoviska/unipoc/aktuality/podnikni-nieco-280218/

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