Promotion of Innovation Culture in the Higher Education in Jordan Erasmus Project
General information for the Promotion of Innovation Culture in the Higher Education in Jordan Erasmus Project
Project Title
Promotion of Innovation Culture in the Higher Education in Jordan
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
INVENT project responds to one of Jordan’s priorities in promoting innovation and R&D to boost economy. It responds to the need for a professional profile able to work with an interdisciplinary approach that integrates knowledge and expertise in R&D on one hand, and in innovation-driven business on the other hand. The basic results of the project activities are the establishment of Centers for transfer of innovations (CTI) at the Jordanian universities and in non academic institutions. Their activity is provision of entrepreneurs with innovations for introduction into process of production. The target groups to which actions will be addressed are: staff and trainers of CTI, researchers and post graduate students; and technicians from industry who will benefit from innovation training, technology agreements with R&D centres for joint projects. The project will achieve the end users through tailored channels: young researchers by circulating information in the universities; business men and professionals, providing them with opportunities for access to the research facilities; scientists, bridging the scientific production with the business sector, and policy makers being informed through press releases and dissemination seminars. Final beneficiaries from the project activities will be:- the research centres attracting more investments in technology transfer and getting advantages from transnational networking,-the business communities, SMEs territorial districts and sectoral clusters, who will get the results of an increased flow of knowledge from labs to industry- young people leaving the higher education system, increasing their employment opportunities through business creation and modernization of existing companies.The team of facilitators, trained through the project, will assist the technology transfer process from then onwards and establish a long lasting network of cooperation among the labs and institutions involved.
EU Grant (Eur)
Funding of the project from EU: 879400 Eur
Project Coordinator
JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY & Country: JO
Project Partners
- PRINCESS SUMAYA UNIVERSITY FOR TECHNOLOGY
- INTERNATIONAL COMPANY TO SUPPORT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
- HOCHSCHULE FUR TECHNIK WIRTSCHAFT UND KULTUR LEIPZIG
- THE HIGHER COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HCST
- UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS
- CREATIVE THINKING DEVELOPMENT
- CONSORZIO ARCA – CONSORZIO PER LA PROMOZIONE DELLE APPLICAZIONI DELLA RICERCA E LA CREAZIONE DI AZIENDE INNOVATIVE