Class Community Development and Entrepreneurship

This course provides the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge for an intervention that promotes community development and local entrepreneurship. In an interdisciplinary way, it sprovides tools and techniques to students so that they can contribute to professional initiatives to support and promote local development, providing collective well-being in different sectors of the economy, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.

1- Concepts of local and community development

2 - Development of space and territory - a brief historical overview

3 – Paradigms of personal and social changes and conflict management

3.1. Individual, organizational and community empowerment

3.2. Participatory organization and conflict management mechanisms

4 – Entrepreneurship as a factor of change and social well-being

4.1. Concept and historical evolution of entrepreneurship

4.2. main theories

4.3. The role of entrepreneurship in local economic development

5 – The characteristics of the entrepreneur and techniques for identification

6 – The main types of entrepreneurships and their role in the community development

6.1. social entrepreneurship

6.2. female entrepreneurship

6.3. Minority Entrepreneurship

7 – Good practices and innovation

8 – Business and innovation opportunities

9 - Local purpose and application to generate employment and income

10 - Project development

Expository methods, case studies, and active work dynamics will be used to understand and retain theoretical content. Next, the development of practical work in which knowledge can be applied in a real case.

The first stage will involve the application of a written test, which will account for 40% of the subject's evaluation.

The second stage, elaboration and work presentation, will be 50% of the evaluation.

Attendance and individual participation in activities will account for 10% of the assessment.

As an innovative methodology to support the teaching-learning process, Microlearning and Online Collaborative Learning will be used.

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• Botti, A., & Monda, A. (2023). Big Data and Its Impact on Tourism and Entrepreneurship. In Big Data and Decision-Making: Applications and Uses in the Public and Private Sector (pp. 107-119). Emerald Publishing Limited.
• Dias, Á., Silva, G. M., Patuleia, M., & González-Rodríguez, M. R. (2023). Developing sustainable business models: Local knowledge acquisition and tourism lifestyle entrepreneurship. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 31(4), 931-950.
• Dias, A., Simonetti, B., & Bakas, F. E. (2022). Developing Lifestyle Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Destinations. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 970005.