The intercultural Co-Creation for international Entrepreneurship Education (iCCiEE) project is entering its next phase: After the successful first term (2023-2024), the project will be funded for a further two years by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) as part of the ‘Higher Education Dialogue with the Islamic World’ programme.

The project team at the HTW Dresden, Faculty of Business and Economics, is continuing to work closely with New Uzbekistan University and the German-Jordanian University. The aim is to develop an internationally oriented Master's programme for modern entrepreneurship education - practical, intercultural and future-oriented.

In the first phase of the project, the programme was developed in a co-creation process together with students, lecturers and young academics from Germany, Jordan and Uzbekistan. Workshops in Dresden, Amman and Tashkent provided the framework for interdisciplinary and international exchange.

The programme is designed to optimally prepare students for the regional and global challenges in the start-up world. The knowledge gained will now be incorporated into the follow-up project iCCiEE5 in order to further expand the topic of entrepreneurship education and strengthen the trilateral partnership in the long term.

About the iCCiEE project

As part of the DAAD programme ‘Higher Education Dialogue with the Islamic World’, HTW Dresden is developing an international graduate programme for entrepreneurship education together with its partner institutes in Uzbekistan and Jordan. The aim is to prepare students for entrepreneurial challenges in a globalised world through an intercultural, practice-oriented curriculum.

Stays in Dresden (June 2025), Uzbekistan (autumn 2025) and Jordan (spring 2026) are planned for the second project period. The developed curriculum will be trialled and further developed there. 

A particular focus will be on establishing contacts with non-university stakeholders in the respective regional innovation ecosystems and exchanging knowledge on entrepreneurship education.

The programme will conclude with an international Global Hackathon in Munich at the end of 2026. The event is supported by TUM International GmbH as a partner with many years of expertise in promoting innovation and start-ups and includes workshops, mentoring and a wide range of networking opportunities.