Title: Introduction
Course: Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Activities 1 cp (VIERKO TP1)

Welcome to studies of Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Activities!

This course is part of the common units and covers compulsory studies in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial activities. The scope of this unit is 1 competence point. By completing this unit, you will gain new knowledge about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial activities.

In this course, you will learn how to work effectively to achieve a company’s goals. You will learn why businesses are important for society. You will think about how your actions can be more customer-friendly and cost-effective. You will also understand how your actions affect your workplace.

During your studies, you will complete assignments and show your competence in three different learning outcomes:

• understand the importance of business in society
• work with a customer-centered and cost-efficient approach
• understand the significance of their actions as part of the work community

After your studies, you will be able to evaluate a business idea to decide if it can succeed. You will practice creating business ideas. You will learn about the necessary connections and financial requirements. You will learn about important services for starting a business. You will assess your own skills to work as an entrepreneur. You will also learn about the risks and opportunities of running a business.

You will complete assignments and show your competence in different learning outcomes:

• generate a business idea, taking into account customers’ needs
• find key services and information sources that support setting up a business
• Determine the networks required to realize the business idea
• assess the financial preconditions for implementing the business idea
• assess their capacities for working as an entrepreneur
• determine the risks and opportunities involved in business

Before you start working on the tasks, carefully read the targeted learning outcomes and the detailed instructions under the headings. By reading them, you will better understand how to gain the required competence and demonstrate what you have learned.

Before you start working on the tasks, carefully read the targeted learning outcomes and detailed instructions under the headings. By reading them, you will better understand how you can acquire the needed competence and demonstrate what you have learned.
Many of the tasks include appendix texts or links to various texts, images and videos.  Study these materials, practice and complete the required tasks carefully. If there is no specific link to a source of information, you are free to look for information, for example by searching online. In some tasks you can use AI (generative artificial intelligence), but this is only allowed as indicated by traffic lights. So, you must obey the traffic lights (below)!

Monitoring progress

The Moodle material consists of different activities (tasks and tests). There is a Moodle progress tracker, which allows you to keep track of what you have completed and what you still need to do. You can find the Progress Tracking section on the right-hand side of the page.

The colour codes let you know where you are at:

Blue: in progress (not done)
Yellow: pending (returned, awaiting assessment)
Red: rejected (check feedback)
Green: completed

Important! You have completed all the required tasks when all the blocks in the progress tracker are green. Make sure that you have completed the tasks according to the instructed schedule.

Guidance on how to do the tasks

Read the assignment carefully before doing the task.
You can use the Moodle course materials, additional material provided by the teacher at the Open Day and other reliable sources as sources for the exercises.
Always write in your own words, not directly copying sources. At the end of the assignment, mention the sources you used.
Take a look at the AI traffic lights below, as well as any task-specific refinements to the use of AI.

How to use sources and AI (generative artificial intelligence)

- Write in your own words.
- When you quote infrmation, cite the source accurtely.
- When you use AI to aid you, include a note on its use.
- For example: Text produced with Copilot October 10th, 2024
- If the task has an AI symbol, follow the instructions accordingly.

Use of AI is not allowed.

Use of AI is allowed with limitations
according to the task instructions.

Use of AI is allowed.
Include a note on which application you used and how it helped you.

In these studies use of AI is allowed with limitations according to the task instructions. AI can be used to search for information according to the instructions above.
Using AI in reflection tasks and tests is not allowed at all.
Click the progress tracking checkbox in the top right corner of the AI instructions. By doing this, you agree to the terms of AI use.