• Code: WOR4LE007
• Extent: 4 cr (108 h)
• Timing: Spring 2009
• Language: English
• Level: professional studies
• Type: elective studies

Prerequisites

Cooperative Entrepreneurship 1 (WOR4LE006)

Learning outcomes

Students learn:

• to run a business
• the main business processes and how to develop them (for example finance, marketing and customer relationship management (CRM)
• how to acquire new customers and how to run customer projects
• how to take responsibility for developing the cooperative
• the importance of teamwork skills in implementing customer projects and in daily operations of the cooperative

Course contents

Cooperative Entrepreneurship 2 gives students abilities to work as entrepreneurs in their own company, i.e. in the cooperative. The course is an extension for the Cooperative Entrepreneurship 1. Topics to be covered:

• Development of the cooperative (trainings, coaching)
• Innovation and R&D
• Working environment follow-up (markets, stakeholders etc.)
• Working with customer projects
• Company visits
• Customer visits
• Fair and seminar visits
• Team work

Cooperation with the business community and other organizations

Students are continuously cooperating with the business community through customer contacts, company visits and fair and seminar visits.

Teaching and learning methods

Coaching (weekly training and coaching, including introductory remarks of teachers and students). Independent working (learning by doing, i.e. working in the cooperative and with customer projects)

Teacher with the main responsibility for the course

Olli Laintila

Course materials

Literature according to need

Assesment criteria

Passed/failed

In order to obtain a pass grade in the course students should be active and show their innovative commitment in developing the cooperative, 108 hours of reported work, 80 % participation in the organized coaching, working on assignments and keeping a learning diary.