Both extensionists are helping to improve extension delivery systems through local involvement in agricultural development. Short-term MSU faculty assignments emphasize food production, modernization of undergraduate curricula, and linkages between LAU and the Kellogg Company in Riga. Long-term collaboration in animal biotechnology exists with the Latvian research institute complex. It is a nonprofit educational institution which includes a number of large universities. Its projects in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union involve economics faculty exchanges with Moscow State University and management training programs in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
Agriculture is one of the focus areas.
William Flinn, President, Executive Director Ohio State University 66 East 15th Street Columbus, OH 43201 tel. The Eastern European branch of OIP holds responsibility for all technical assistance activities in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union for the SUNY system, unless these projects are carried out by single campuses. OIP identifies technical assistance projects, obtains funding and manages the projects. Agriculture is one of the focus areas covered under a project for management training and economics education. Project elements include consulting sessions, classes, videos in Hungarian, and internships and management training in the US for Hungarian entrepreneurs and managers.