Higher Education–Enterprise platform for fostering, modernisation and sustainable growth in natural stone industry in Western Balkans Erasmus Project

Project Title

Higher Education–Enterprise platform for fostering, modernisation and sustainable growth in natural stone industry in Western Balkans

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

The main objective of the project is fostering the modernization and development of the stone sector in Western Balkans partner countries and strengthening the relationship between the higher education and the industry. For this purpose different specific objectives have been allocated to the project:• To benchmark existing training initiatives & incorporate elements into project training outputs• To support technological & practice-based innovative training based on courses approach and format.• To encourage participation of industry stakeholders in outputs conception and testing phases• To test new HE possibilities of Tertiary VET levels in partner countries• To contribute to National/regional innovation strategies for specialization in the natural stone sector with project outputs• To create a Stone Sector network platform involving stakeholders in programme & partner countries.The project aims at Higher Education, and this is the reason why most partners are HEIs, but it includes also a VET tertiary level and a stone technologic centre, Marble, Natural Stone and Materials Technology Centre (CTM), Several associated partners will be involved in the project, mainly city halls and SMSE’s. Main products of the project are training content for university courses, a training programmes for VET tertiary level, an Online Resource Centre and multimedia handbooks. The project will last for three years and involve partner from Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo and Montenegro, as partner countries. From programme countries, partners from Spain, Italy, Romania and Greece.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 872309 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITETI POLITEKNIK I TIRANES & Country: AL

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITETI “EQREM ÇABEJ” I GJIROKASTRËS
• UNIVERZITET U SARAJEVU
• UNIVERSITY OF MOSTAR
• UNIVERSITATEA TRANSILVANIA DIN BRASOV
• UNIVERSITETI I PRISHTINES
• UNIVERSITETI NDERKOMBETAR PER BIZNES DHE TEKNOLOGJI UBT SHPK
• UNIVERSIDADE DA CORUNA