On 17-18 March 2017, the British Council will host the second Forum on Innovation and Enterprise Education in Beijing, China. The event is funded by the Department of Business, Innovation and Industrial Strategy.

At this second Forum, British and Chinese participants will come together to consider a number of critical challenges for innovation and entrepreneurship education in order to progress policy thinking and institutional best practice. These challenges include:

1. How to provide quality assurance and develop national standards for innovation and entrepreneurship education?
2. How to integrate innovation and entrepreneurship education into curriculums and support teachers in delivering them?
3. How to improve learning effectiveness and the student experience to truly cultivate innovation and entrepreneurship?

The event will provide a platform for British and Chinese education policy-makers and practitioners to:

1. Examine the key challenges confronting both countries’ education systems in terms of innovation and entrepreneurship education.
2. Share and discuss the latest policy thinking and good practice in addressing these challenges.
3. Support like-minded institutions in developing international collaborative partnerships in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship education.

The event will also provide an opportunity to explore the potential of establishing a UK-China Alliance on Innovation and Enterprise Education, which would provide a long-term mechanism for exchange and collaboration in this field.

The event is open to:

• British and Chinese higher and vocational education institutions with a keen interest in developing innovation and entrepreneurship education, and/or that would like to develop international partnerships in this field.
• British and Chinese education policy-makers and representatives from relevant mission groups and professional bodies/associations/think tanks.

Registration to the event is now open.

The British Council would also like to invite speaking proposals and hear your views about how the UK and China could work together in Innovation and Enterprise Education (IEE).

NB:

Opportunities are also available for UK Higher Education Institutions to apply to the ‘Regional and Provincial – Partnerships for Excellence’ Project, taking place in China in the same week (14-17 March 2017). More details can be found here