About project Tempus project «National Education Framework for Enhancing IT Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship 530576-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-SE-TEMPUS-SMHES
EU funding instrument: Interregional Program European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument. Target group: students, graduates, teaching / administrative staff; top management of industry enterprises, Chambers of Commerce, local community administration staff. Partnership:
- Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden
- Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics, Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine
- Odessa National Politechnic University, Odessa, Ukraine
- Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
- Vinnytsia National Technical University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine
- Instituto Pedro Nunes, Coimbra, Portugal
- Ministry of Education and Science, Youth and Sport in Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland
- IKEA AB, Älmhult, Sweden (NEFESIE)»
- SIGMA Kudos Sweden AB, Växjö, Sweden
- Yuzhnoye State Design Office, Dniepropetrovsk, Ukraine
Project goals and objectives:
- National standards for Software Engineering master education that includes new courses on innovation and entrepreneurship.
- Development of the Virtual Innovative Space that creates a sense of community among Ukrainian students, researchers and IT professionals and promotes their creativity and innovation.
- Establishing a set of guidelines and recommendations for adoption on a national scale for university – company cooperation with a focus on student innovation and entrepreneurship.
Activities:
1. Surveys and studies on innovation power in Ukraine, both in Universities - Company projects and in higher education
2. Best case practices of International company-university cooperation
3. Training seminars for the new courses to all Ukrainian universities.
4. Running awareness campaigns for students.
5. Developing and organizing an innovation competition for students, vision essay connected to current issues.
6. Prepare, publish, purchase the new teaching materials, handbooks, syllabi in connection to new courses.
7. Prepare a set of documentation for equipment purchase.
8. Direct involvement of companies (associations of companies) as a support network for support student/company contacts for good innovation. Development of a Company-University-Student Cooperation Service
9.Implementation of innovation and entrepreneurship education content (as mandatory courses) into a selection of subjects: Software Engineering, Software Systems and Electrical Engineering Standards.
10.Improving current “National student self-government regulation” with a part containing principles for innovation and entrepreneurship for students.
11.Organizing study visits of Ukrainian students visits to innovation centres in cities of the EU partner universities.
12.Providing distance courses in line with the new education standards of innovation and entrepreneurship
13. Quality plan with the evaluation criteria for measuring quality of the activities of the project
Expected results:
National standards for Software I. Engineering master education that includes new courses on innovation and entrepreneurship.
II. Formation of the Virtual Innovative Space that creates a sense of community among Ukrainian students, researchers and IT professionals and promotes their creativity and innovation.
III. Establishing a set of guidelines and recommendations for adoption on a national scale for university – company cooperation with a focus on student innovation and entrepreneurship.
IV. Developing and organizing an innovation competition for students
V. Training seminars for the new courses to all Ukrainian universities.
VI. Dissemination of project results