On January 25 – 26, 2008, the second TEMPUS ICES (International Center for Entrepreneurial Studies) consortium project meeting was held at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek. Partners from Finland, Austria, Slovenia, United Kingdom and Croatia participated in the meeting. Topics discussed at the meeting included conceptual framework of the Ph.D. program in entrepreneurship, development of virtual learning platform and Microsoft’s role in it, and testing of video conferencing tool was also conducted. Project administration and management were also discussed, as well as project’s website and learning environment. The next meeting is set for May 2008.

A group of 25 American students and professors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be guests at the Faculty of Economics in Osijek from January 06, to January 11, 2008. During their stay in Osijek, visiting students will participate in lectures at the Entrepreneurship course, take a Croatian language course, and exchange experiences about the way and differences in studying at American and Croatian universities. Within their visit, they will also attend presentations of students’ business plans (part of the Business Venture course), and the three best business plans will be awarded money prizes, which were collected by American students.