The document provides information about Team Academy, a special unit of entrepreneurship at Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences. It trains students to be team entrepreneurs through team companies over approximately 3.5 years. Currently there are around 190 team entrepreneur students in 11 team companies, with an entrepreneurship rate of around 30%. The mission is for students to learn team entrepreneurship through their team companies and customers. The vision is to be a leading program of team entrepreneurship in Europe by 2013 and worldwide by 2037. Core values include relationships, team entrepreneurship, innovation, learning by doing, and travel. The objective is for every student to travel the world using the international network.

2. ”Would you like to
travel around the
world and learn
some marketing
aside?”
-Johannes Partanen 19.1.1993-

3. TEAM ACADEMY FACT FILE
A special unit of Entrepreneurship
in Jyväskylä University of Applied
Sciences
Leads to BBA and takes approx.
3,5 years
~190 team entrepreneurs
(students) in 11 team companies
Entrepreneurship rate approx.
30%
Turnover ~1,2 million €

5. No classrooms

6. …but open space offices

7. No teachers

8. …but coaches

9. No school

10. …but good learning
environment

11. No classes

12. …but dialogue sessions

13. No students

14. …but team entrepreneurs

15. No case studies

16. …but real projects

17. No teaching

18. …but lots of learning!

19. MISSION
In Team Academy we learn to
be team entrepreneurs
through our team companies
and customers.

20. VISION
The vision of Team Academy is
to be the leading boundary-
breaking Top Unit of Team
Entrepreneurship in Europe, by
January 19th, 2013.
The vision of Team Academy is
to be the Top Unit in the World in
our own field by January 19th,
2037.

21. VALUES

22. 1. Relationships and building
companionships

23. 2. Team entrepreneurship

24. 3. Continuous experimentation
and creating new innovations

25. 4. Learning by doing and
practicality

26. 5. Travelling

27. OBJECTIVE
Every team entrepreneur
travels around the world,
using the international
SoL network. Coaches
and team entrepreneurs
need to courage others to
reach that goal.

28. MISSION OF
TEAM ACADEMY´S
NETWORK
We will remove
unemployment from
Finland and cause the
revolution of team
entrepreneurship, team
learning and team
leadership.

29. “We ourselves have to be
the change we want from
the world.
It demands from us
courage and obstinacy.“
-Mahatma Gandhi 1947-