Organizing Studies Entrepreneurially to Adjust Inner and Outer Worlds During COVID-19

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the effect of a five-stage strategy elaborated within the Erasmus+ project FOrSE (Framework for Organizing Studies Entrepreneurially) realized by three EU universities. The strategy was integrated into a study course of Pedagogy to enhance entrepreneurial mindsets and behaviors of first-year international master's students who did not have the opportunity for face-to-face studies due to the quarantine. The key focus of the strategy is to promote students' ability to analyze the problems they face them during the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify and/or realize new opportunities in the face of worry and uncertainty. The qualitative content analysis of the master's students' reflections and the analysis of the challenges they faced, including the new opportunities they identified and/or realized, showed that they tried to adjust their inner world to the events which taking place in the outer world in order to gain self-confidence and achieve harmony.

Keywords

• organizing studies entrepreneurially
• self-negotiated action
• opportunity realization
• covid-19
• inspiration
• opportunity identification