CAKI SPRING was a course that intended to encourage female students at the art educations in Copenhagen to start up their own business. 

COURSE DETAILS

• Title: SPRING
• Duration: The course was carried out in the end of 2010.
• Credits / ECTS: –
• Schools / Organizations: CAKI – Center for Applied Artistic Innovation, Aarhus School of Architecture and CSE Lab at CBS
• Participants: Twenty female students at the arts educations in Copenhagen, who all were potential entrepreneurs.
• Teachers: –

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Experience from student incubators indicates that female students are likely to question their own ability to become entrepreneurs and are uncertain of how to move forward as entrepreneurs in regards to their current situation.

This tendency might have to do with a misleading idea of who an entrepreneur is – is she a freelancer, entrepreneur and/or self-employed person? Also, uncertainty about financial possibilities or challenges when becoming an entrepreneur seems to hold students back.

Some share the assumption that the job of an entrepreneur cannot be combined with the responsibilities of family life. Consequently few female students take the final step towards becoming (student) entrepreneurs. This reflects the general situation in the industry where the percentage of female entrepreneurs is very small.

The purpose of SPRING is to develop specific methods and concepts that will contribute to engage more female students in entrepreneurship during and after their studies.

The project was a pilot-project carried out and continually evaluated in three stages together with twenty potential entrepreneurs among female students.

LEARNING GOALS

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