We invite you to join the next 3E Conference under the following theme:
Responsible, Systemic, Democratic: New trajectories in entrepreneurship education
In line with transformations towards sustainable-entrepreneurial universities (Cai, Ahmad 2022) Entrepreneurship Education (EE) sees itself radically changing and adapting to the new global, environmental and institutional requirements of the 21st century. For 2025’s 3E conference, we invite scholarly investigations into three dimensions of EE to lay foundations for future research and practice, share best practices and spark critical debates.
- In line with recent discussions of responsible entrepreneurship (Hägg et al. 2024), we want to better understand how EE construes responsibility. How may educators and institutions integrate responsibility into EE’s core rather than merely a side or after-effect? How does EE theoretically define and methodologically implement responsibility? What theories, methods and best practices help to rigorously integrate responsibility within entrepreneurial education processes?
- How can Entrepreneurship Education adapt to systemic perspectives to innovation, value creation and learning? Systems Thinking offers new vantage points for holistic entrepreneurial processes, encourages new ways of thinking and challenges learners to cope with complexity and ambiguity. Yet what specific value does a systems perspective offer to EE? What are teaching practices, philosophies and designs that succeed in the development of systemic competencies? Systemic approaches often overwhelm learners and are in conflict with linear innovation processes. If assuming that Systems Thinking is integral to Social Entrepreneurship (Trivedi 2015), what is its role for ‘traditional’ entrepreneurship and education?
- While previous research has argued that ‘entrepreneurialism’ is something exceptional and inherent only in ‘entrepreneurs’, more recent approaches have underlined a more ‘democratic’ understanding, emphasizing that every student and learner has the capacity and potential to be and become more entrepreneurial (Block et al. 2023). We want to invite research that helps us better understand and execute such “wide approaches to EE” (Baggen et al. 2021) but also reflect on the opportunities and risks such approaches may bring about.
Through an innovative and non-traditional format, the 3E Conference establishes a different paradigm for entrepreneurship conferences. It offers an exclusive and engaging opportunity for researchers, educators, and politicians to debate and exchange their experiences of the major challenges and advances in enterprise education with a special and unique focus on Europe. Unlike more traditional academic events, the conference focuses on problems and questions rather than on solutions and presentations of research findings. The format is unplugged, no power point presentations allowed, round table discussions that participants have read beforehand. Further, the keynote speakers are chosen from among the participants rather than being invited outsiders.
Who should attend?
Potential participants include entrepreneurship educators and researchers, research-based educators from primary, secondary, and higher education institutions, practitioners involved in entrepreneurship support programs including coaches, trainers, policy makers and program managers, and special interest group representatives from local or international organisations.
About the program and the venues
The 3E Conference program will include three interactive days, mainly taking place around the campus of the Hochschule München and its Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship, which are located close to the city center of Munich. We will offer some pre- and post-events beside the main conference that will immerse you in the unique entrepreneurial ecosystem of Munich. There are many things to discover in Munich. The city offers a great variety of cultural activities like museums, local pubs and calming walks in the English Garden or the Isar river to escape from the traffic in the city. So feel free to stay over the weekend!
3E 2025 