Universities & freelancing

Dan Sacha has researched the websites of 150+ leading European universities to produce an overview of a dozen programs, both older and new, seeking to support freelancing. These are the highlights:

• From student ID to business ID (Od UCO k ICO, Masaryk University in Brno) has launched on October 5, 2020, in collaboration with Freelancing.eu’s Robert Vlach as the first general full-semester university course on freelancing in Czechia, and probably in wider Europe.
• Your future in freelancing semestrial course by UWE Bristol (UK) has launched 10 days later (on October 15, 2020), and it is quite similar in scope.
• United Kingdom — Freelance February (annual lecture series at De Montfort University Leicester), Freelance boot camp (annual event by the University of Southampton), Freelance and business advice (ongoing event series at University of the Arts London), Introduction to freelancing (workshop at the University of Kent, with IPSE), Thinking about becoming a creative freelancer? (lecture at Lancaster University), Practical advice for freelancers (debate at The University of Edinburgh), How to be a great freelancer (upcoming series at Nottingham Trent University), Freelance and feature writing (media-oriented public course at The London School of Journalism) + in February 2024, Matthew Dowling published summary on what UK universities do to support student freelancers (namely at University of Plymouth, The University of East London, The University of Essex, Sheffield Hallam University, and University of the Arts London)
• Germany — Freelancing: best practices for beginners (Freiberuflich arbeiten: Basiswissen für den Start, workshop at Freie Universitat Berlin), Freelance work in humanities, social and cultural-science professions (Freiberuflich arbeiten in Berufen der Geistes-, Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften, online workshop at Technische Universitat Dresden)
• Spain — Product management and communication projects (Gestión de productos y proyectos de comunicación, media-oriented course at Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona), Marketplaces for freelance services (Marketplaces de Servicios Freelance, an open course at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
• France — 021 (conference at Université de Bordeaux)
• Sweden — Freelancing and business within media production (Frilans och företag inom medieproduktion, media-oriented course at Lulea Tekniska Universitet)
• Finland — Art, life & entrepreneurship (arts-oriented course at Aalto University)

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