Boundary Spanners Development Programme Erasmus Project

Project Title

Boundary Spanners Development Programme

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 : Knowledge Alliances for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The Boundary Spanners Development Programme aims to break down the engagement barriers between the universities and their regional/ national/ international business stakeholders by enabling the boundary spanning skills of the higher education faculty, staff, and leadership. We believe that people are the most crucial factor in the transferring of knowledge and innovation across institutions, mobilising resources, triggering organisational change, and making an economic and societal impact in their regions. Ultimately, we aim to create “champions” and bridge the skills and knowledge gap by: i. identifying boundary spanning skills and practices of the HEIs and Businesses in their collaboration with each other ii. profiling and analysing 45 boundary spanners in HEIs and businesses in the partner regions and across Europe, while presenting 10+ of those in concise infographic formatiii. developing and pilot testing the Boundary Spanners Workshop Series with 60+ HEI staff in 4, and 45+ SME representatives in 3 partner regionsiv. facilitating 16+ (2 pairs from each HEI region) HEI and Business staff to benefit from University-Industry Staff Exchange Schemev. preparing and disseminating the Boundary Spanners Learning and Experience Collection, including 20+ (4×5) Personal Application Project (PAP) cases development and implementation reports, as well as 4 (4×1) PAP good practice videosvi. organising 8 regional events, policy workshop and Cascading Training to 200+ HEI and business representatives, enhancing exploitationvii. developing the models for boundary spanners community building, self-assessment and certification for the sustainability of the project results.The purpose of the Boundary Spanners Development Programme is to empower university faculty and leadership in enhancing the contribution of the HEIs in the regional economic and social development. The programme will be based on the University-Business Cooperation Ecosystem.

Project Website

https://www.spanning-boundaries.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 773838 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY INNOVATION NETWORK BV & Country: NL

Project Partners

• ISTANBUL TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI
• INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
• CRAZY TOWN OY
• MOMENTUM MARKETING SERVICES LIMITED
• MEATH COUNTY COUNCIL
• CAMARA DE COMERCIO E INDUSTRIA ITALIANA PARA ESPANA
• UNIVERSIDAD DE MALAGA