The current economic model has failed and in response increasingly Governments would have to look for a more sustainable model, both socially and environmentally balanced. New challenges and organizations are appearing under non classical conception of doing business, dealing with not only economic activity, they had an intense social activity, and the University must meet its responsibility in these new opportunities. In this action line is University of Barcelona doing changes, trying to improve: Impact of training, skills of students and teachers, transversal competences at UB, transition to college, relationship between the university and the workplace, gender in university teaching, and so on.
Through this research study we tried to find response at different questions as: What are the meanings of the concepts and practices of national and international social entrepreneurship in the University of Barcelona at social sciences and in particular degrees in Social Education, Social Work and Education Studies? What are the skills needed by students of social sciences and especially in Social Education, Social Work and Education Work for the transfer of social knowledge and social entrepreneurship? What is the perception of students and lecturers of Social Education, Education Work and Social Work on social entrepreneurship and knowledge transfer? As sensitize teachers to develop academic activities in this regard? Methodology followed was a survey or questionnaire about the subject of study, has been well received by students who participated in the validation of this instrument.
Many of these students know all or part of the concept of social entrepreneurship, while some of them say that it is an issue that they discuss in any of the classes of the grades. Concern to the future of the economy, unemployment and difficulties in joining the labor market for graduates in Social Education, Education Work and Social Work, makes these students consulted during the validation, expressing their interest to a University that provides training and tools to acquire skills that will help them in the future to undertake their own projects.