Innovation Offices in Ukraine
Higher Education Institutions (UNI4INNO)
Project number:
159359-TEMPUS-2009-ES-JPHES.
Project duration:
from January 2010 to January 2013.
Tempus program grant amount:
€ 637,405.
Target group:
- academic staff,
- university students and graduates,
- staff of technology transfer departments.
Grant holder:
- University of Alicante, Kingdom of Spain.
Project consortium:
- University of Alicante, Kingdom of Spain;
- Chalmers University of Technology, Kingdom of Sweden;
- University of Bologna, Italian Republic;
- Riga Technical University, Republic of Latvia;
- WUS Austria, Republic of Austria;
- National Aerospace University "Kharkiv Aviation Institute", Ukraine;
- Donbas State Machine-Building Academy, Ukraine;
- Odesa I. I. Mechnykov National University, Ukraine;
- National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine, Ukraine;
- Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine;
- Crimean State Humanitarian University, Ukraine;
- Ministry of Education and Science, Ukraine;
- Institute of Innovative Technologies and Content of Education, Ukraine;
- Kyiv Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Ukraine.
Project goals and objectives:
- strengthening the strategic, managerial, and administrative capacities of six Ukrainian universities in identifying, managing, and generating value from the universities' intangible (primarily intellectual) assets;
- increasing the effectiveness of Ukrainian universities' participation in scientific cooperation through the implementation of targeted measures aimed at building their collaboration potential;
- promoting an innovation culture in Ukrainian higher education institutions by creating and establishing innovation offices and innovation support services.
Project activity areas:
- establishing strategic drivers for the implementation of institutional innovation policy;
- creating a sustainable structure for innovation support at 6 Ukrainian universities;
- training qualified personnel to support innovation processes at 6 Ukrainian universities;
- pilot launch of 6 innovation offices;
- creating the national network platform "Universities for Innovation";
- dissemination of project results;
- measures to ensure sustainable project development;
- quality control and monitoring;
- project management.
Achieved results:
1. Recruited qualified personnel to support innovation development processes across 6 Ukrainian universities.
2. Established 6 innovation offices at partner universities.
3. Created the National Network Platform "Universities for Innovation".