Working entrepreneurially and enterprisingly in Networks is one of the most exciting and difficult challenge in the beginning of 21st century. The European Union highlights entrepreneurial and enterprising behaviour as one of the key factors for enhancing the prosperity of its member states. Entrepreneurship promotion, education and training, regional development and international and interregional cooperation are above all a networking challenge. Entrepreneurial and enterprising networking besides collaboration emphasises our ability to create new, innovative practices and combine resources for finding and creating networks for that. However how to assess, reflect and increase the meta-abilities of networking is still rather unexplored landscape in collaboration.

This symposium combines these challenges and provides an international arena for evaluation and reflection on

• learning about networking,
• learning through networking, 
• learning for networking  and 
• reflecting our own practices in networking  

We invite all those

• with ambition, enthusiasm and willingness to learn more about entrepreneurial and enterprising networking 
• with experiences of the challenges of working in networks and creating new networks

to join us in Tampere Symposium March 22nd and 23rd 2007.

International keynote speakers and moderators introduce you to the newest approaches of international networking evaluation, presents concrete cases of international networking and offer opportunities to experience the challenges of entrepreneurial and enterprising networking. The Symposium offer also an arena for creating your new own network.

The programme is accordingly divided into: lessons, cases, networking tracks, open and invited networking sessions and reflection discussion.