ENTER-CBL pilot completed across partner institutions

The ENTER-CBL national pilot of the NextGen Entrepreneurship learning path has been successfully completed (January 2025 to mid-April 2025). The pilot tested how Challenge-Based Learning works in real entrepreneurship education settings when supported by the ENTER-CBL Hub (Moodle) as a structured online backbone for resources, tasks, rubrics, communication, and submissions.

The pilot completion marks a key milestone for the project: it moved ENTER-CBL from design to practice and generated concrete evidence on what supports student learning most effectively, what challenges appear during implementation, and what should be improved before scaling.

Key takeaways from implementation

• Student ownership and engagement increased as teams progressed through iterative challenge work and collaboration.
• Time and workload management emerged as the most frequent constraint, requiring flexible pacing and additional support beyond scheduled contact hours.
• A formative midpoint checkpoint (“evaluation in progress”) proved highly valuable by reducing uncertainty and improving the quality of team outputs before the final pitch phase.
• Students needed clearer scaffolding to distinguish sustainability from circular economy and apply these concepts meaningfully in business model decisions.
• The platform’s structured layout supported transparency and continuity, while reflective tasks will benefit from clearer framing and more varied prompts to avoid a sense of repetition.

Insights from the pilot are now being used to refine the course flow, strengthen guidance materials, and improve platform-supported practices - ensuring that future implementations are even more consistent, manageable, and impactful for both educators and learners.