Professor Slavica Singer, Head of the UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek was awarded Honorary Doctorate Degree in Economic Sciences by the University of Turku, Turku School of Economics, Finland. The Honorary Doctorate was awarded in recognition of her contribution to the development of internationally networked entrepreneurial research and education, her significant achievements in bringing entrepreneurship to multi-faculty academic environments and for her extensive collaboration with the Turku School of Economics. Honorary Doctorate award ceremony was held on 14 May in Turku.

Within the 10th study trip undertaken by the Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship, which took place from 28 April to 5 May 2010, a group of 25 students and professors visited Finland, cities Turku and Helsinki. As always, the trip was a mixture of study-education-tourist journey. Within the educational part, Turku School of Economics, Turku Science Park, Luovia Ltd – Multichannel marketing concepts, STX Europe shipyard (in which world’s largest cruise ships are built) and the nearby Forum Maritime, which hosts an exhibition about Finland’s maritime past, were visited. In the tourist part of the trip, historic Turku castle was visited. On 1 May, our group visited Naantali, one of the oldest Finnish towns and the nearby Moomin World, theme park based on Moomin children’s books by Tove Jansson. Our students and professors have also witnessed and participated in the traditional May Day parade, one of the most celebrated holidays in Finland, together with their hosts Prof. Antti Passio and Kirsi Peura from the Turku School of Economics. The trip was concluded with a visit to the Finnish capital Helsinki and the Suomenlinna fortress, which is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Entrepreneurship research is a relatively young discipline that has until recently almost exclusively been focused on the recognition and discovery of opportunities. Saras Sarasvathy, Research Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia, through her scientific-research work has introduced a new way of researching entrepreneurship not only as finding but also as “making” new opportunities, firms, markets and institutions. We have a unique opportunity to get to know Saras Sarasvathy, world-renowned expert in the field of Effectual Entrepreneurship by participating at the (DREAM) Doctoral Retreat on Entrepreneurship As „Making“ which will take place on May, 31 – June, 04, 2010, at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek, in duration of 30 hours.