(in Polish) Akademia przedsiębiorczości

B.Sc. seminars

The seminar is offered to third-year undergraduate students interested in the topic of entrepreneurship in its broadest sense. It is not only the topic that can be entrepreneurial, but also the approach to writing the thesis. It is worth treating the bachelor's thesis as a talent forge, an academy of entrepreneurship, an opportunity to approach reality in a creative way...Perhaps an idea for your future life will be born out of it?

The aim of attending this class is to prepare an undergraduate thesis, which should refer to the latest literature on the subject, existing research and/or

quantitative/qualitative methods.

The seminar will serve to broaden interests, acquire new knowledge or consolidate existing knowledge in the student's area of interest, taking into account knowledge, skills acquired during studies, but also natural predispositions.

Bachelor's thesis topics may relate to entrepreneurship in the broadest sense:

- business innovation

- business financing

- sources of project financing

- project management

- business management

- business incubators

- leadership

- knowledge management, intellectual capital

- Project team leadership

- lifelong learning, training, economic education

- effectiveness of entrepreneurial and educational activities and many, many other areas.

The lecturer is a practitioner, for many years she has been involved in obtaining funding, managing and implementing projects (research, training, promotion, investment), ran her own business for a dozen or so years, also managed several companies, and is currently Head of the Research and Publications Section at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Warsaw and a manager of several large educational projects.

The first meetings will be devoted to acquainting students with the requirements for the preparation of undergraduate theses at WNE UW, the assessment criteria, the construction of an undergraduate thesis, the workshop of writing theses (research problem, hypothesis, data search). Then, the seminar participants will make a selection of issues and thesis topics of interest to them, perform a literature review, search for data, perform research (statistical or econometric, quantitative or qualitative, from ready-made databases or taken by themselves, e.g. through surveys or interviews). Students will gradually create a thesis plan, consult emerging pieces of work, and finally prepare a thesis.

For the preparation of the bachelor's thesis it is possible to carry out research or use data from projects carried out at WNE UW under the guidance of the lecturer.

The bachelor's thesis may be a work of several dozen pages or may be a scientific article.

Literature will be selected individually depending on the thesis topic.

Knowledge: The student knows how to correctly formulate a research problem, has knowledge about the importance of correct definition of the aim, scope and method of the thesis. He knows how to search for necessary information, conduct economic research, knows the structure and rules of writing undergraduate theses at WNE UW.

Skills: The student is able to formulate research questions, research hypotheses, conduct research, draw conclusions from research, interpret results, The student has the ability to prepare a formally correct thesis, independent literature analysis, data collection and selection.

Competences: After completing the seminar, the student is able to independently and critically expand his/her knowledge and skills, determine priorities, make a critical analysis of sources and different positions, draw conclusions. The student's conduct is characterized by openness, respect for intellectual property rights and ethical standards.

Prerequisites for seminar credit include:

- semester I - presentation and acceptance of the plan and theses, presentation of at least one presentation on the thesis problem and presentation of at least a draft of the thesis chapter including literature review,

- semester II – presentation of own research results and submitting the final version of the thesis.