Integrating Talent Development into Innovation Ecosystems in Higher Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Integrating Talent Development into Innovation Ecosystems in Higher Education

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

This is a capacity building initiative involving 5 EU partners (of which 4 HEIs) from Bulgaria, Greece, Finland and UK, and 10 Partner Country (PC) universities: 4 from India, 2 from Philippines, 2 from Nepal and 2 from Sri Lanka.Its overall objective is to build the capacity of PC HEIs to embed graduates’ employability in their core activities and to facilitate the development of student talent through co-curricular and extra-curricular innovation activities involving key stakeholders, with a view to contributing to youth employment, inclusive growth and sustainable development.The project has the following specific objectives:-To support the uptake and mainstreaming of entrepreneurship education and innovation training in PC HEIs and to promote the integration of talent development into research and innovation activities in collaboration with external stakeholders (enterprises, non-profits, public sector)-To create sustainable institutional structures and ICT tools enabling student co-creation in research and innovation and stakeholder co-creation in talent development-To build PC HEIs’ capacities for delivering innovation and entrepreneurship training in view of building students’ employability skills.The capacity building intervention has three key dimensions: – enabling an institutional culture of strategic planning and change in the direction of improving the relevance of education- launching Talent Co-Creation Labs for co-curricular and extracurricular live projects combining student and stakeholder co-creation in innovation and engaging students with the world outside the university- developing tools and teaching resources to support staff and faculty implementing the new tasks.All dimensions seek to enable a re-design of students’ learning experience, introduce a challenge-driven learning model, improve graduates’ employability skills, strengthen PC HEIs’ interactions with business, and involve external stakeholders in student talent development.

Project Website

http://innotal.unwe.bg/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 754602 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF NATIONAL AND WORLD ECONOMY & Country: BG

Project Partners

• OY VAASAN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU – VASAYRKESHOGSKOLA AB
• AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY
• UNIVERSITRY OF PERADENIYA
• IFUGAO STATE UNIVERSITY
• EUROPEAN CENTER FOR QUALITY OOD
• UNIVERSITY OF RUHUNA
• RK UNIVERSITY