Enhancing capacity of universities to initiate and to participate in clusters development on innovation and sustainability principles Erasmus Project

Project Title

Enhancing capacity of universities to initiate and to participate in clusters development on innovation and sustainability principles

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 : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Aim of the project: Development of the potential of universities as an integral part of agro-industrial clusters by the creation of expertise centres as pre-conditions for the development and successful functioning of agro-industrial clusters.These objectives will be achieved through the following activities:- Organization of workshops, consultations, round-tables in order to present the concept of clusters and to share ideas concerning creation of expertise centers supposed to be transformed into the cluster;- Training of HEIs and enterprises staff by workshops and study tours;- Development of legal framework for expertise centres creation: Statutes of expertise centers, post cards, work regulations. Amendments will be done in development strategies of participating HEIs and enterprises;- Creation expertise centers on following areas: water management and aquaculture, new technologies (IT) in machinery, rural tourism, milk production and processing with the focus on traditional local products, biotechnologies in poultry farming;- Development and launching of new modules for Master and PhD students as added value;- Launching of pilot projects: the projects will be defined according to enterprises needs and universities possibilities for scientific elaborations and their application on practice;- The students’ mobility will be organized in two ways from partner countries to EU and from EU to partner countries;- In addition to traditional dissemination activities the project foresees the information and promotion campaign among stakeholder to disseminate the EU experience of clusters activity.Expected impacts:creation of sustainale relations between HEIs and enterprises based on win-win pronciples, enhancing of practical value of researches; creation of conditions for better integration of innovations into production on the sustainability principles; development of entrepreneurial capacities of HEIs, contribution to the development of local area.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 985255 Eur

Project Coordinator

KAUNO KOLEGIJA & Country: LT

Project Partners

• BUNDESANSTALT FUR AGRARWIRTSCHAFT UND BERGBAUERNFRAGEN
• UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID
• DEBRECENI EGYETEM
• CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE DI ALTISTUDI AGRONOMICI MEDITERRANEI
• UNIWERSYTET PRZYRODNICZY W POZNANIU
• SCIENTIFIC AND METHODOLOGICAL CENTER FOR HIGHER AND PRE-HIGHER EDUCATION
• GROMADSKA SPILKA UKRAINSKA PRODOVOLCA DOLINA