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Universities – Communities: strengthening cooperation
Project timeline: 4 years (01.02.2023 – 31.01.2027)
EU funding program: Erasmus+: КА2 CBHE
Financing: 988,435.00 €
General Objective:
To enhance universities’ social role through boosting university-community engagement leading to the elaboration of state policy on supporting the third mission of universities for ensuring social cohesion, resilience, sustainability and prosperity in Ukraine.
Specific objectives:
- To develop and discuss national policy on enhancing the third mission of universities and community-university cooperation (indicators: a policy paper; a road map, national guidelines, a research published);
- To develop the model strategies for relations between universities and communities based on their needs and aimed to enhance civic activism and citizen engagement based on principles of equality, solidarity, non-discrimination and inclusion and to pilot them in the HEI’s and communities involved (indicators: 7 on Ukrainian universities’ visions on the cooperation with the communities in terms of their social responsibility and university development strategies;
- To foster the cooperation between the project target groups and stakeholders on university-community cooperation based on European experiences and practices in the field of inclusion and gender equality, cyber security and digitalization, ecology, and civic education, etc. (indicators: community empowerment program, 3 hackathons, 2 volunteering programs);
- To increase the social responsibility and community engagement of universities through raising their capacities in the area of community development and local leadership (indicators: joint reports on the needs of the communities and their expectations from the cooperation with the HEIs);
- To foster the cooperation between the project target groups and stakeholders on university-community cooperation based on European experiences and practices (indicators: research/experience exchange visits to European partners and internally for experience exchange and cooperation; the number of participants at the project events and mobilities performed; training programs and relevant teaching materials for the project teaching component, a future summit);
- To ensure the qualitative project implementation is in line with best European practices as to the academic content and project management;
- To ensure proper cooperation between PI, target groups, and stakeholders in order to implement the project dully and timely to report to European and national authorities;
Project Consortium
From Program countries:
- Genoa University (Coordinator)
- Fachhochschule des Mittelstands
- University of Latvia
- Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
- Lund University
- Fondazione Sicurezza e Libertà
- Accreditation Council for Entrepreneurial and Engaged Universities
From Partner country (Ukraine):
- Dragomanov Ukrainian State University (National Coordinator)
- Sumy National Agrarian University
- Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
- Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronic
- Bohdan Khmelnitskiy Melitopol Pedagogical State University
- Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs
- National Pirogov Memorial Medical University
- Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences
- Ukrainian Association of Professors and Researchers of European Integration
- Ukrainian Association of European Studies
- Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
Contacts
Guido Amoretti
guido.amoretti@unige.it
Diana Spulber
diana.spulber@unige.it
Maksym Kolisnyk, Coordinator of project from NURE
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