European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Engaged entrepreneurship research in Europe

Will you be attending the RENT 2025 conference in Enschede? Make sure you reserve a seat for the Professional Development Workshops, which will be held on the Pre-Conference Day on 19 November!

Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) are workshops to share knowledge and expertise and foster practical, professional and intellectual skills of participants.

RENT XXXIX pre-conference day on 19 November 2025 will host four PDWs.

PDW Programme on 19 November 2025:

Venue: ROC van Twente (address: Gieterij 200, 7553 VZ Hengelo)

Parallel Session 1 at 12:30-14:30

a) Entrepreneurship for Desirable Futures: Bridging Entrepreneurship and Futures StudiesRegister
b) Unplanned Obsolescence: Teaching and Understanding Modern Entrepreneurship through Game-Based LearningRegister

14:30-15:00 Coffee break

Parallel Session 2 at 15:00-17:00

a) The Art of Co-Authoring – Navigating Collaboration in Entrepreneurship ResearchRegister
b)  Learning from Nature: Biomimicry, Responsible and Regenerative Approaches to Entrepreneurship EducationRegister

See the PDW overviews HERE (pdf)

Participation

Participation in the PDWs is free, but participants must be ECSB members or registered for the RENT conference to attend. Please note that you can only register for one PDW in each parallel session (a or b).

Register by Thursday 12 November 2025!