Entrepreneurship Course | GTIIT这门宝藏课程，你一定要了解一下（上）

“以色列人会一个问题接着一个问题不停地问，而且常常会因为不同的意见而争论不休。” 以色列驻广州领事馆经济与商务领事Shirly Cofiman的一番话，引得在场师生开怀大笑。

广东以色列理工学院以创新创业教育为特色，本科期间学生有机会参与科研项目并通过创业课程系统地学习创新创业知识。这场精彩纷呈的圆桌课堂便是学生创新创业课程的一部分。

“学校开设创业教育课程，旨在向社会输送一批具有'自由、开放、独立的思维模式，多元、多维的洞察和设计能力，敢试、敢行、敢于人先'的科技创新型人才，在扎实专业科研知识和能力的同时，提高学生对创业机遇的发现、认知和把控，从而提高自主创业的成功几率。”授课老师黄增煜博士介绍道。课程注重培养学生国际视野，在教授理论知识的基础上，围绕 “X-Culture”国际协作学习项目、“学生创新创业实践”项目开展丰富的教学活动，切实帮助学生提高创新创业能力。

“X-Culture”作为世界上最大的国际协作学习项目之一，由来自6大洲102个国家的652所高校总计6万多名学生随机组成不同的团队，一起完成世界各地12家国际企业提出的不同的咨询项目。“新冠疫情的爆发使国际环境发生了重大的改变，国际企业面临数字化转型、供应链结构调整、客户消费习惯改变等问题，我们在参与该项目的过程中既要理解当前国际格局和形势，为国际企业在后疫情时代的转型或升级做思考，同时要学习如何开展创新型国际协作。”谈及参与该项目的感受，化学工程专业的陈柳表示收获颇丰。课程助理王侃侃对于同学们的表现赞不绝口，大伙克服了“跨学科”、“跨国界”、“跨文化”、“跨语言”、“跨时差”多方面的困难，通过结合“云见面”、“云会议”等创新交流模式，顺利且出色地完成了各自的咨询项目。最终，由广以学生参与的5个团队从一万两千多个团队中脱颖而出，获得本学期“X-Culture”项目的“最佳团队”。

大一学生陈佳表示，很庆幸选修了这门课程。近距离接触来自不同领域的大佬，聆听他们的分享，使我得以跳出固有的思维方式，以多元化的角度看待问题，开拓了商业思路。完成小组作业的过程中，与组员一起头脑风暴，形成不同思维碰撞的火花，帮助我更全面地思考问题。材料科学与工程专业的王梓明对Shirly的分享记忆犹新。“这场特别的分享帮助我理解了‘以色列人永远都在提问的路上’这一独特的思维模式，进而领略到由这种思维模式所形成的包容失败、充满创新和冒险的以色列文化。”

创业不是一件运用方法论和理论工具就能完成的事情，广以创业课程运用纵向和横向教学模式引导学生形成创新科技思维结构和意识。下期，我们将向你介绍广以学子如何通过参与“学生创业创新实践项目”，实现专业知识的市场转化，敬请期待！

"Israelis keep askingonequestion after another, and they always argue due to different opinions," said Shirly Cofiman, Consul of Economic and Trade Mission at Consulate General of Israel in Guangzhou. Her words made GTIIT faculty and students laugh out loud.

GTIIT is featured with innovation and entrepreneurshipeducation. During their undergraduate studies, students can get involved in research projects and learn about innovation and entrepreneurship systematically through relevant courses. This wonderful sharing by Shirly Cofiman is part of the program.

"Our goal is to cultivate technologically innovative talents with anopen andindependentmindset, diversified insights and design capabilities, daring to try, to do and to be the first to others.Thecoursewill consolidate students'scientific knowledge and ability, and improve their recognition of entrepreneurship thus to increase the probability of success in self-employment,"said Dr. Victor Huang, who is responsible for GTIIT entrepreneurship course. Focusing on cultivating students' internationalperspectives, this course provides students with theoretical knowledge and practical teaching activities such as the international learning project "X-Culture" and "Launch Start"in orderto effectively help students improve their innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities.

As one of the largest international learning projects in the world, "X-Culture" involves more than 60,000 students from 652 universities in 102 countries on all 6 continents. Participants are divided into different groups randomly to complete consulting projects raised by 12 international companies. Chen Liu, a student from Chemical Engineering program, noted that she benefited a lot from this course. "The outbreak of Covid-19 has caused major changes in the international environment. International companies are facingproblems ofdigital transformation, structural adjustments in supply chain, and changes in customer consumption habits. We need to understand the current international situation and think about how to transform and upgrade companies in the post-epidemic era as well as carry out innovativeinternationalcollaboration in this project." Teaching Assistant Wang Kankan spoke highly of the students' performance. "Working with people from around the globe, our students overcome interdisciplinarydifficulties, cultural differences, time-zone dispersion, and global communication challenges. They all did a really good job." Finally, 5 teams from GTIIT were selected from over 12,000 teams and won the "Best Team"of the "X-Culture" project this semester.

"I am glad that I chose this course, which provides me opportunities to meet geeks from different fields," said Year 1 student Chen Jia. She added that their sharing helps her to think outside the box, see the world from a diversified perspective and broaden her businessideas. Wang Ziming, a student from Materials Science and Engineering program said that Shirly's sharing was still fresh in his memory. "I have a better understanding of Israelis' mindsetof'stay curious and asking questions', which cultivate Israeli culture that appreciates failure, innovation and challenge."

GTIIT entrepreneurship course aims to cultivate students' creative and scientificmindthrough vertical and horizontal teachingmodesince entrepreneurshipis not something that can beachieved by merely using methodologies and theoretical tools. In the next episode, we will share how students participate inLaunch Startproject to turn their professional knowledge into practice.

文：GTIIT研究创新与研究生办公室、传媒与公共事务部

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