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573965-EPP-1-2016-1-SE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP Enhancing innovation competences and entrepreneurial skills in engineering education DESCRIPTION: Armenia, Georgia, Belarus and Kazakhstan are currently facing economic difficulties as consequences of economic policy, recent international financial crisis, collapse of world oil/gas prices and economic slowdown in China and other emerging countries.
The situation causes an urgent need to implement structural economic reform to transform traditional economy to diversified, knowledge-based and innovation-driven economy.

However, present higher education in these countries does not have a strong link to innovation and entrepreneurship.

It has failed to become the driving force to create new innovative enterprises which lead to new jobs and economic growth.
This project aims to enhance innovation competences and entrepreneurial skills in engineering education through university- business cooperation in order to support creation of new enterprises, new jobs and economic growth in the partner countries.
The specific objectives of the project are to: - foster an innovation culture among partner university staff and students - establish 8 innovation centers at partner countries - provide training to 104 partner country staff on innovation and entrepreneurship - introduce innovation pedagogy in teaching and learning - define transversal innovation competences and develop tools to assess such competences - introduce new courses on innovation and entrepreneurship to engineering students - promote university-business cooperation - provide business incubator and start-up accelerator services to staff and students to develop successful businesses - organize an innovation competition to promote entrepreneurship - disseminate project results to other universities in the partner countries - help partner countries to develop a national innovation strategy Coordinator: KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN Drottning Kristinas väg 30 Stockholm 10044,SE Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Almaty University of Power Engineering and Telecommunications BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY Bologna process and academic mobility Center of the Ministry of education and science of the Republic of Kazakhstan BREST STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY GEORGIAN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF GEORGIA KRTUTYAN EV GITUTYAN NAKHARARUTYUN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS NATIONAL POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA
 FOUNDATION NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION OF ARMENIA ND & Co, Ltd SCIENTIFIC-EDUCATIONAL REFORMS FOUNDATION SHOTA RUSTAVELI STATE UNIVERSITY SMART Consulting, NGO Taraz State University TURUN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA Yerevan Telecommunication Research Institute CJSC KZ BY KZ BY GE GE AM BY AM AM KZ AM GE GE KZ FI ES AM Application Grant Requested Project Duration: 968.567,00 36 months