In higher education institutions, entrepreneurship learning based on successful entrepreneurial role models may promote education for sustainable development. Several theoretical perspectives, such as the human capital theory, the entrepreneurial self-efficacy and self-determination theory, argue that entrepreneurship education is positively correlated with entrepreneurial intentions of students, as it provides adequate know-how and skills and motivates them to develop their entrepreneurial careers. In entrepreneurship education programmes, exposure to successful entrepreneurial models could be a significant factor for stimulating students’ confidence in their ability to start a business and for improving their attitudes towards entrepreneurship. This study aims (i) to identify characteristics viewed by students as being specific to a successful entrepreneur, (ii) to establish the influence of exposure to successful entrepreneurial role models (chosen by students) during entrepreneurship education classes on student entrepreneurial intentions, and (iii) to assess how such exposure influences the attitudes of students towards entrepreneurship. For this purpose, the authors ran a pilot experiment with 30 graduate students enrolled in a Business Creation course using a research methodology that combined qualitative techniques with quantitative measures. Content and statistical analyses were utilised to examine differences in student entrepreneurial intentions and attitudes towards entrepreneurship after being exposed to successful entrepreneurial models. Our study provides evidence that entrepreneurship education based on successful entrepreneurial role models may positively influence the entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions of students and could lead to higher orientation of student perception towards social benefits of entrepreneurship (new jobs) compared to financial ones (high income). However, our findings stress that if educators want to improve the efficiency of education focused on developing entrepreneurial skills, graduate programmes should be designed differently for business and non-business students, since studying successful entrepreneurial stories impacts these two groups differently.

Currently one can witness a revolutionary change in teaching/learning strategies and an evolution which should reconsider the relation between educational institutions, teaching staff, and students, on the one hand, and economic agents, public or private companies, firms, and NGOs, on the other. Despite the large amount of research focusing on the entrepreneurial phenomenon, there has been limited focus on the effect of education upon enterprise performance in terms of venture creation and development and on ascertaining the main factors which determine young people to undertake entrepreneurial careers. Prompted by these observations, the present study is the result of research carried out within three universities in the Northeast Development Region of Romania between October and December 2009. The main objective was to analyse students' orientation to entrepreneurship and to evaluate their interest in the status of the entrepreneur. The research goal was to assess the effectiveness of including special training programmes for young entrepreneurs in the educational offer and of providing active support for young students, graduates and researchers to set up their own firms.

An external three component strain gauge balance, designed, analyzed and manufactured in the Military Technical Academy is presented. The balance is a multi-piece type and employs the use of six custom-made load cells (sensors) to transfer the aerodynamic forces and moments from the wing to the computer software environment for data processing and analysis. The relations between the loads acting on the wing model and the measured forces are also underlined. The placement of the strain gauge on the composite laminate is an important issue for increased sensor precision; therefore, it is given a thorough analysis. The positioning of the force vector and its influence on the strain distribution over the lift sensor is also numerically and experimentally analyzed.

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European Union is crossing a delicate phase of rethinking caused by many factors. In this problematic context a comparative and questionnaire survey "In and Out European Union" has been carried out on three groups of University's students, attending socio-economics courses, from three countries of European Union (Italy, Poland, Romania) testing their level of approval on EU activity, their proposals for bettering EU policy, their opinions on a possible EU enlargement to other European and non-European countries, on migration policies, on Brexit. The results of the research can be briefly summarized. The attitude of students towards EU activity is positive, despite some critical observations referred specially to issues concerning their future. Most students disagree with Brexit, the most students want EU to extend only to European countries. Most students want EU to be more restrictive towards migrants and refugees.