GameHub: University-enterprises cooperation in game industry in Ukraine Erasmus Project

Project Title

GameHub: University-enterprises cooperation in game industry in Ukraine

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

GameHub project ensures employability and self-sustainability of HEI graduates, unemployed engineers as well as veterans of Anti-Terror Operation (ATO) in Ukraine by equipping them with knowledge and skills demanded by digital game industry (GI) – a highly networked global impact economy. Game Industry is strongly based on online work approach allowing the development of a highly technological field in Ukraine.

The project aimed at establishing monitoring instrument of competence profiles and training necessary for employment in ICT market in Ukraine including international networking and business opportunities, at building in each higher education institution in Ukraine capacities for digital game production and entrepreneurship and at increasing the cooperation between academia, veterans associations and ICT creative business.

The project developped the competence scheme for successful employees and enterprises in the ICT and Game industry, built the concept, structure and facilities of GameHub fused with game lab, trained 180 university teachers , 500 students and 150 unemployed including the ATO veterans, developped 18 bilingual learning modules and integrated them into the HEI curricula, established academia, enterprises and unemployment centers links at UA HEI -GameHub Scaffold and organized a series of sustainable job fairs on Game Design.

GameHub plans to expand the new methodology and resources for enhancing student competency required by modern IT, including creative game industry.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 811193,33 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSIDAD DE LA IGLESIA DE DEUSTO ENTIDAD RELIGIOSA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• QUALITY AUSTRIA – TRAININGS, ZERTIFIZIERUNGS UND BEGUTACHTUNGS GMBH
• FUNDACION VIRTUALWARE LABS
• UKRAINIAN ASSOCIATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONALS
• STATE INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION DONETSK NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
• STATE HIGHER EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT PRECARPATHIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER VASYL STEFANYK
• KHERSON NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
• KYIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURE