3E 2026 Conference – ECSB Entrepreneurship Education Conference

Practitioner Development Workshop (PDW) Proposals

The abstract submission period ended on 1 December 2025. Authors will receive acceptance notifications by the end of January 2026.

Specific guidelines

PDW Sessions should focus on an issue in practice, such as the development and delivery of enterprise and entrepreneurship courses, pedagogic practice and learner communities, programme development and entrepreneurial learner journeys, extra-curricular initiatives, education strategy or stakeholder engagement. The purpose of the sessions is to share practice and provide opportunities for discussion.

It is particularly important that presenters include approaches that will encourage activation, interaction and that will help the audience with their professional development. Given the theme of the conference, workshops that explore how entrepreneurship education can cultivate change agents who drive positive social, economic and environmental transformation are especially welcomed. As this is a research conference, we are interested to receive submissions that present examples of practice that have been informed by research with impact, however this is not an essential requirement for submission and should not be the focus of the PDW presentation at the conference.

Proposals should not exceed two (2) single-spaced pages and may not exceed the maximum limit of 700 words. The author(s) name and information should NOT appear anywhere on the proposal. If you submit more than 2 abstracts, we will ask you to withdraw the additional abstracts.

Proposals should include the following information:

  • Importance of the topic for entrepreneurship education practice
  • Questions, challenges, and problems to be asked and addressed
  • How you intend to engage the audience and what takeaways a delegate should expect for their own practice context from participation.

As a guideline, we strongly suggest that PDW Proposals are structured under the following headings:

  1. Workshop title
  2. Questions we care about – Aim and summary
  3. Workshop Approach
  4. Expected Outcomes
  5. Details of any related research
  6. Takeaways for EE teaching practice

When a PDW proposal is deemed more suitable for a research paper by reviewers, authors will be asked whether they would submit instead as a Research Paper abstract. If affirmative, they are required to follow the Research Paper abstract format and prepare for a presentation session instead.