Strengthening Technology Transfer Infrastructures for Thematic Universities and Innovation Infrastructures Erasmus Project

Project Title

Strengthening Technology Transfer Infrastructures for Thematic Universities and Innovation Infrastructures

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Open and distance learning; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

As in the rest of the world, universities in Europe are increasingly concentrating on information-oriented innovation efforts and it is thought that these efforts will be intensified to ensure sustainability in this regard. In parallel with the increase of interdisciplinary studies, information continues to develop with the contribution of different disciplines under different study themes. This development process brought the requirements for adaptation to change and process in universities, industry organizations, interface organizations, civil society and public. Innovation studies that are developed under many different themes such as Food and Agriculture, Biology, Machinery, Metallurgy and many more, which are outside the fields of work that we can call digital sectors, face different problems due to technology transfer processes that are not planned in accordance with their fields. Those who are most affected by this issue are the Academicians who try to realize their studies at the University, the employees of the Technology Transfer Office, who coordinate these studies done by academics, and university students who do not have the opportunity to learn how to achieve innovation in their fields.

While the scientific, technological and economic contributions of universities are increasing more and more, the Technology Transfer Offices, one of the most important tools used by universities for transferring this information to the necessary mechanisms and institutions, should improve their services and methods in order to shorten the distance between the information produced in their research institutions and the market. Information developed in different thematic and interdisciplinary fields such as Agriculture, Food, and Biotechnology, which are intended to be evaluated within the methods developed for the IT and electronics sectors, often do not receive the necessary support during the valuation of information. Because of that situation; in Universities and Innovation Infrastructures, it is deemed important that they develop these processes when necessary and to work to ensure adaptation in Technology Transfer in different themes.

Strengthening Technology Transfer Infrastructures for Thematic Universities and Innovation Infrastructures (3TforUni) aims to create Thematic Technology Transfer guides, online training on Thematic Technology Transfer, and sharing experience between Technology Transfer Experts, means University Staff, practitioners, Academics and Students, to develop better practices and procedures for Technology Transfer for or Thematic Universities and Innovation Infrastructures. While achieving these aims, 3TforUni will foster effective and efficient system level funding via adaptation recommendations for current systems. And also, adaptation of procedures will enable more entrepreneurship minded Universities and Innovation Infrastructures in different thematic areas. So with the establishment of open and innovative higher education institutions in different thematic areas, partnerships with commercial and noncommercial organisations in the private sector will be much more possible, and make them ready for the digital era more than ever.

The target audience of the project is universities and research centers / infrastructures, especially thematic universities and research centers / infrastructures. In addition, TTOs within these bodies or TTOs of institutions working in different sectors will take part in the project as beneficiary groups.

3TforUni project has a strong partnership structure consisting of sectors, interface structures and universities, which play an active role in the process from the production of knowledge to value. With our project, the sector, interface structures and technology transfer processes in universities will be discussed, and this will be privatized in the context of the Agriculture-Food and related sub-sectors, which are the thematic areas targeted by the project. The data obtained from the studies to be carried out during the project will be transferred to all relevant structures, especially the universities where the information is produced, which is the starting point of the knowledge economy and technology transfer.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 236400 Eur

Project Coordinator

KONYA GIDA VE TARIM UNIVERSITESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• ASOCIACION DE EMPRESARIOS DEL COMERCIO E INDUSTRIA DEL METAL DE MADRID
• BIORISI Società a Responsabilità Limitata
• SLOVENSKA POLNOHOSPODARSKA UNIVERZITA V NITRE
• IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS
• EGE UNIVERSITY