An Innovative Education System At The University Of Debrecen

The paper seeks to summarize opportunities offered by the University of Debrecen (UD) for the further development of students’ innovative ideas to enter the marketplace, and to identify the essential links of the university’s innovation ecosystem resulting in mutual benefits at local, regional, national and international levels. As a part of this programme in 2010 the innovative Finnish higher education system (Tiimiakatemia – Team Academy) was launched at University of Debrecen Faculty of Economics and Business, which was also awarded by OECD and has been run at JAMK University of Applied Sciences in Jyvaskyla since 1993. In this system, we create team entrepreneurs who must work together in teams. Our Team Academy Debrecen's mission is to provide business training that develops entrepreneurial mindsets and self-awareness through practice-oriented and innovative approaches to the requirements of the modern age, creating opportunities for individual fulfillment, responsibility for themselves and the community. During the training, we focus on developing the following skills and abilities: developing team entrepreneurial skills, being able to teamwork, adapting to new environments, being able to co-create to build communities. Team Academy Debrecen learns new approaches and methodologies by putting them into practice take full responsibility for their actions and decisions learn from their mistakes, be open to new ideas. We believe they can learn faster and more through international cooperation. Author of this study work as team coach in Team Academy Debrecen. In the last 8 years, we have worked with several teams and experienced how group dynamics present at the teams and change through the learning process. We have faced with great storming period at different teams and managed to build high performing entrepreneur teams as well. Our experiences are introduced as case studies, after analysing, consequences will be concluded. As in the EFQM model we can find that to survive in the global competitive markets companies need the best teams for the best results.