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.
Professors are American business faculty.
There is an optional two-week summer session in the United States. Collaborative research is being conducted on a variety of topics with the institutes at the Biological Research Center, Pushchino. An example is research on the biological control root pathogens of wheat and barley. We have ongoing faculty exchanges in the field of agriculture, the sciences and others with the Biological Research Center and Pushchino State University, Pushchino and Far Eastern State University, Vladivostok. Training of persons in Agribusiness is included in WSU's small to medium size business training program through the Small Business Development Center at the University.