Global Entrepreneurship Week is held from November 17-23, 2008, and is organized in more than 50 countries around the world. Activities on the local, regional and global level try to inspire young people around the world to entrepreneurship, innovative and proactive behavior.

Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship and the Department of Economics of J.J. Strossmayer University in Osijek have for more than 15 years been actively contributing to shaping and disseminating entrepreneurship knowledge and culture. This year the Program has joined the Croatian initiative to celebrate entrepreneurial behavior through the Global Entrepreneurship Week. In the cooperation with the Movie theatres Osijek, Ltd. a movie retrospective was put together. The movies present entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs as a universal phenomenon as well as an interesting area of human behavior. The movie retrospective under the title “Entrepreneurship – through the camera lenses” will feature movies which talk about the initiative, struggle and success of the entrepreneurial persons. The aim of this retrospective is to sensitize and encourage young people to a better understanding of entrepreneurship as well as to inspire more interest for entrepreneurship initiative.

On Saturday, November 11, 2008, ad for the enrollment of the new 4th class of Graduate Specialist Program in Entrepreneurship (the 13th generation of graduate level education) was published in the media and on the Program’s website. Interested candidates can all obtain all the additional information by phone: +385 31 224-467, +385 31 224-438, or e-mail: psp@psp.efos.hr.

A several days ago, the new version of the entrepreneurship portal www.poduzetnistvo.org , a joint project of the Center for Entrepreneurship Osijek and Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship Osijek was launched. The portal was created using the latest web technologies and it features simple and intuitive navigation, enabling quick access to the content. The purpose of the portal is to daily provide fresh articles from all Croatian daily newspapers, business magazines and other media related to entrepreneurship and economy. It also features news and information from the field of entrepreneurship, as well as all other information directly or indirectly related to entrepreneurship as an activity and/or a way of life.

Our friendship and mutual collaboration with Allan Gibb and Joan Gibb has been going on since the very beginnings of development and start of our Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship, since year 2000. Joan and Allan believe that the rich experience and knowledge they have been giving us all these years allowed us to “grow up”, and that we can continue on our own. They will remain our friends whose advice and help we can count on all the time, but they will no longer participate in teaching. We wish a lot of success to Joan and Allan both in their further academic endeavors and their personal life.

International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference was held on 8th-10th September in London. The focus of this year’s conference were the challenges of development of the concept of entrepreneurial university and incorporating entrepreneurial activity into various institutions in the society. Within the conference, Slavica Singer, PhD and Sunčica Oberman Peterka, PhD held a workshop titled “Developing an Entrepreneurial European Doctoral Programme”, where they presented the TEMPUS ICES project, and the doctoral program in entrepreneurship, development of which is one of the goals of this project.