Инновационный Инкубатор  Moodle KDU Центр непрерывного образования    
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Project “Enhancing capacity of universities to initiate and to participate in clusters development on innovation and sustainability principles” (UniClaD)

 

Program Erasmus +, project KA2 n° 609944-EPP-1-2019-1-LT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP

Start of the project: 15/01/2020

End of the project: 14/01/2023.

General objective:  Development of the potential of universities as an integral part of agro-industrial clusters. Creation of the innovative centers as pre-conditions for the development and successful functioning of agro-industrial clusters.

Main tasks:

- development of the chain: master - PhD - researcher as a primary part and researcher - projector - executor as a secondary part;

- sensibilisation of business, local authorities, science and education to the cooperation in the framework of clusters based on win - win principles;

- enhancing capacities of business, science and education to develop and to work within the cluster (through special trainings and special modules included into master and PhD curricula);

- implementation of special structural measures at the universities as a base for activities performed within clusters;

- enhancing of practical value of researches, theses and students' master works as well as students employability;

- creation of conditions for better integration of innovations into agro-industrial production on the sustainability principles.

 

Activities:

- to develop special modules for master and PhD students such as: statistics, project development, econometrics, modules aimed to up-to-date challenges: climate changes, COP 21 commitment, food security, fight against poverty.

- to study EU experience of universities activity within clusters and to disseminate this information among stakeholders;

- to organize special trainings, study visits for business, science and education representatives in order to show advantages and to create the capacity for the cooperation within the cluster;

- to develop the legal base defining rules, modalities for universities functioning within clusters in compliance with the national legislation;

- to create preconditions for the creation of four cluster (water management and aquaculture, new technologies (IT) in agriculture, agro-tourist cluster and milk production and processing with the focus on traditional local products, biotechnologies in poultry production);

- development of master works and PhD thesis in line with the pilot projects.

Our consortium:

Lithuania
Kauno collegia (University of applied sciences) – coordinator

Poland
Poznan university of life sciences

Austria
Hochschule fur Agrar - und Umweltpadagogik
Bundesanstalt fur Agrarwirtschaft

Spain
Universidad of Valladolid

Hungary
University of Debrecen

Italy
Centro Internazionale di Altistudi Agronomici Mediterranei

Ukraine
Scientific and Methodological Center og Higher and Pre-higher Vocational Education
Association “Ukrainian Food Valley“
Central Ukrainian National Technical University
Kirovograd State Agricultural  Experimental Station of the Nati
Poltava State Agrarian Academy
Farm enterprise “Dobro-Kraft”
Lviv National Agrarian University
Yavoriv National Nature Park
Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University

Moldova
Comrat State University
Fabrica “Oloi Pak”
State Agrirain University of Moldova
SC Terafix SRL

Azerbaijan
 Azerbaijan State Agriculture University
Suliddinoglu Aricultural Farm
 Azerbaijan Technical University

Our university will work on the creation of the expertise center (precondition for the further cluster) devoted to milk production and processing with the focus on traditional local products together with the Fabrica “Oloi Pak”.

 Coordinator - Dr. conf.univ. Liudmila Fedotova

 

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