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Cooperation between HEIs and Enterprises
in
Erasmus Centralised Actions
Matinée Erasmus,
Brussels, 5 May 2009
Katarina Smalova
Erasmus, Jean Monnet Unit
Education, Audiovisual and Culture
Executive Agency
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Erasmus Multilateral Projects
Creating innovative European BA/MA/PhD
courses and continuing education: Curriculum
Development
Encourage trans-national
higher education cooperation
in strategically important
fields:
Contributing to the reform of HE systems with
regard to Bologna objectives: Modernisation of
Higher Education
Promoting Cooperation between higher
education institutions and enterprises
Promoting the virtual dimension in Higher
Education: Virtual Campuses
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Erasmus Networks
ACADEMIC Networks
(31 LLP countries)
 promote innovation in a specific
discipline, set of disciplines or a
multidisciplinary area
STRUCTURAL Networks
(min 5 LLP countries)
 improve and modernise a specific
aspect of higher education
organisation, management,
governance or funding
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Erasmus Accompanying Measures
Aims
promote the objectives of
the Erasmus programme
help to ensure that the
results of Erasmus-supported
activities are brought to the
attention of a wider public
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communication activities
thematic monitoring of
projects
dissemination and
exploitation of project results
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Co-operation between HEI and Enterprises
Objectives
 the facilitation and intensification of cooperation between
HEI and enterprises by creating a common culture and
understanding and developing exemplary actions in this
area
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Co-operation between HEI and Enterprises
Priorities (1)
 reinforcing the link between studies and employment needs;
 developing educational services for enterprises, provision for parttime students, advanced level vocational training, etc;
 promoting exchanges and cooperation between HEI and
enterprises;
 promoting entrepreneurship, creative thinking and innovative
approaches as part of the curriculum and as a skill for
teachers/researchers;
 assessing future skills needs in order to better match future labour
market needs.
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Co-operation between HEI and Enterprises
Priorities (2)
Priority will be given to projects which include a strong
role for partners from outside academia, notably:
enterprises (particularly SMEs)
professional organisations
chambers of commerce
social partners
local/regional bodies
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Co-operation between HEI and Enterprises
In 2007:
22 proposals submitted
5 projects selected
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Co-operation between HEI and Enterprises
Title – Organisation Number of partners
• PRomoção do
EMpreededorismo
e InOvação
(PREMIO)
• TECMAIA-Parque
De Ciência e
Tecnologia da Maia
SA, Portugal
• 8 (PT, EE, GR, RO)
Description
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A mixed partnership (HEIs, science and
technology parks, development
foundations)
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Promoting entrepreneurship and business
start-ups among HE students, teachers and
researchers
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Developing a tailor-made training module
(blended learning) with mentors from the
business sector
•
The best business idea awarded a prize
(premio) = incubation in the science and
technology parks involved
www.premio-project.eu
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Co-operation between HEI and Enterprises
Title – Organisation Number of partners
Description
•Cross-Border Virtual
Entrepreneurship
(CBVE)
•A mixed partnership (HEIs, a company) + regional
enterprise networks, chambers of commerce,
investment banks, professional org.
•Promoting entrepreneurship, business start-ups
and innovation skills among non-traditional
learners
•Piloting entrepreneurship in the curricula of the
target group via flexible learning approaches
•Proposed business ventures assessed by nonuniversity stakeholders
•Envisaged outcomes: own start-ups or source of
innovation within established companies (i.e.
increased employability of the target group)
•EADTU, NL
•5 (EE, ES, HU, IT, PL)
www.eadtu.nl/cbve
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Co-operation between HEI and Enterprises
Title – Organisation Number of partners
•Funeral Services
Master Business
Administration
(FUSEMBA)
•Serveis Funeraris de
Barcelona, ES
•4 (DE, ES, FR, IT) + a
silent partner (UK)
Description
•A mixed partnership (professional
associations, one HEI)
•Promoting modernisation and innovation in
SMEs by providing advanced vocational training
to managers
•Team working and networking
•Blended learning (on-line plus face-to-face in
different countries)
•Envisaged outcomes: a more competitive
funeral services sector in Europe, HEI benefiting
from the contact with real business
www.fusemba.com
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Co-operation between HEI and Enterprises
Title – Organisation Number of partners
Description
•Architectural Design
and Manufacturing:
From the School Lab to
the Fabrication
Workshop
(CONTINUUM)
•A mixed partnership (HEIs, companies)
•Creating links between schools of architecture
and SMEs in order to bring together academic
research and advanced technology in
enterprises
•Staff from SMEs giving lectures to students
and teachers and researchers
•Students and HEI staff visiting SMEs
•Students producing prototypes, the best ones
supported by enterprises
•A web-portal
•Aristoteleio Panepistimio
Thessalonikis, GR
•12 (BE, ES, FR, GR, IT,
LI, NL, UK)
www.f2f-continuum.eu
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Co-operation between HEI and Enterprises
Title – Organisation Number of partners
•Good Practices in
University-Enterprise
Partnerships
(GOODUEP)
•Universidad Politecnica
de Valencia, ES
•5 (DE, IT, NL, PL, UK)
Description
•A partnership of HEIs and one research
institute
•Mapping types of UEP in Europe
•Developing tools to assess/manage UEP
activities and analyse the governance structure
of UEP
•Identify good practice
•Present recommendations for HEIs, enterprises
and HE policy makers
www.gooduep.eu
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Co-operation between HEI and Enterprises
In 2008:
28 proposals submitted
10 projects selected
New themes:
• student placements, female entrepreneurship,
aged workforce, sector-specific projects (e.g.
spa management), SMEs and immigrants, etc.
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Co-operation between HEI and Enterprises
Title – Organisation Number of partners
Description
•A Model for Quality of
Trans-national Student
Placements in
Enterprises (Q-PlaNet)
•A partnership of HEIs and non-academic
organisations (2 of which are ENT)
•Aims:
1) To set up quality standards for practical
placements in enterprises,
•Hochschule Karlsruhe –
2) To set up three experimental quality
Technik und Wirtschaft
(KOOR/BEST), DE
reference centres in two new Member States,
3) To develop a European pilot network of
Quality Reference Centres
• 10 (DE, BE, EE, LU,
RO)
www.q-planet.org
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Co-operation between HEI and Enterprises
Common Features of Projects Selected in 2007
and 2008 (1)
• Involve partners from outside the academia
• 60% develop training courses, modules or enrich already
existing curricula with practice-based learning elements in
a specific field of study or a business sector
• 40% develop general strategies/guidelines/tools in relation
to Cooperation HEI/Enterprises (innovation, female
entrepreneurship, student placements, etc.)
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Co-operation between HEI and Enterprises
Common Features of Projects Selected in 2007
and 2008 (2)
• Use a virtual community platform and blended learning
• Often include a “competition” element
• Often a couple “HEI-Enterprise” in each participating
country
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Co-operation between HEI and Enterprises
Some Negative Features of Proposals Submitted
in 2008 (1)
• Enterprises still not sufficiently active
• Insufficient involvement of formal bodies
(associations of SMEs, professional organisations,
social partners, decision makers, etc.) for a greater
impact and sustainability
• Dissemination poorly addressed (no strategy from
the beginning of the project)
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Co-operation between HEI and Enterprises
Some Negative Features of Proposals Submitted
in 2008 (2)
• Intellectual and industrial property rights not properly
addressed
• European added value rather poor, impact only on partner
organisations
• Imbalanced budget (a big bulk of activities and the budget
allocated to the applicant/coordinator)
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Examples of other Erasmus centralised actions
Title – Organisation Number of partners
Description
•European
Pharmacoinformatics
Initiative (EUROPIN)
• pure HEIs consortium
•Universität Wien, AT
•to promote creativity, competitiveness and
employability of young scientists, soft skills
such as group management, fund raising, and
entrepreneurship
• 6 (AT, DE, IT, PL)
•to develop a joint PhD program on
Pharmacoinformatics
•strong participation of experts from
pharmaceutical companies
www.europin.at
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Examples of other Erasmus centralised actions
Title – Organisation Number of partners
Description
•Employability &
Entrepreneurship:
Tuning Universities &
Enterprises
• a mixed consortium (HEIs + 1 association of
enterprises)
•Universidade Catolica
Portuguesa – Centro
Regional do Porto, PT
• 6 (PT, UK, FR, PL,
DK)
•to identify a common skills profile of economic
and business graduates through a study of
market-valued skills among enterprises as well
as alumni, professional organisations, and other
relevant stakeholders
•Competencies Assessment Platform
•Competencies Development Strategy
•Curricula Developmental Model
•Coaching Model
http://feg.porto.ucp.pt/eetue/
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Examples of other Erasmus centralised actions
Title – Organisation Number of partners
•Virtual campus for
SMEs in a
multicultural milieu
•Budapesti
Gazdaságo Fõiskola,
HU
• 6 (HU, DE, FR, UK)
Description
• mixed partnership (1 SME federation and 1
employers’ confederation)
•joint diploma on-line courses for SMEs:
•diverse combinations of the already existing
BA modules and MA subjects
•comparative character aiming at the
facilitation of the international mobility of
entrepreneurs who have received this joint
Master degree
•SMEs to provide feedback on the relevance of
the curricula.
www.bgf.hu/project/llp/erasmus/evc
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Examples of other Erasmus centralised actions
Title – Organisation Number of partners
•EUE-Net - European
University –
Enterprise Network
•Universitatea
Transilvana din
Brasov, RO
51 partners
Description
•starting from the previous TN EUI-Net
•Increasing the presence of the entrepreneurs
in university activities by innovative mobility
schemes involving entrepreneurs
•Tuning Entrepreneurship - defining generic
entrepreneurial skills for the students and best
profile of teachers
•Enhancing the quality of practical placements
of students
•Development of a network of Career
Development Offices.
www.eue-net.org
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Examples of other Erasmus centralised actions
Title – Organisation Number of partners
•Dissemination of
TREE Thematic
Network Results
(Teaching and
Research in
Engineering in
Europe)
Description
•to enhance the European dimension of
engineering education, to improve strategies
for a better cooperation between higher
education and enterprises and to focus the
attention on the "knowledge triangle" of
education, research and innovation
•regional conferences to reach all relevant
•Università degli Studi stakeholders in EE in Europe
di Firenze, IT
•a publication (printed+web)
•more than 50
partners
www.unifi.it/tree
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Call 2008 Results
Submitted
Proposals*
Selected
Proposals
141
43
1. Curriculum Development
72
18
2. Cooperation between HEI and
Enterprises
28
10
3. Modernisation of Higher Education
20
9
4. Virtual Campuses
21
5
21
14
9
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Action
A. Multilateral projects (total)
B. Networks
C. Accompanying Measures
* Including ineligible applications
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Applications Submitted
Comparison 2007 / 2008 / 2009
200
178
180
162
160
147
140
120
100
80
60
68
56
53
40
28
20 22
23 19 20
20
27
33
13
20
0
31
19
10 9
16
ECD
EVC
EMHE
ECUE
ENW
EAM
Total
2007
53
28
23
20
13
10
147
2008
68
20
19
27
19
9
162
2009
56
22
20
33
31
16
178
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Success Rate of Erasmus Actions in 2007
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
ECD
ECUE
EMHE
EVC
EAM
ENW
Curriculum Development: 56, Selected: 22
Cooperation HEI/Enterprises: 22, Selected: 5
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Success Rate of Erasmus Actions in 2008
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
ECD
ECUE
EMHE
EVC
EAM
ENW
Curriculum Development: 72, Selected: 18
Cooperation HEI/Enterprises: 28, Selected: 10
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2008 Selected Applications
by Coordinating Country
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2008 Selected Applications
by Partner Country
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Useful links
LLP – Erasmus Programme – Executive Agency (EACEA) Website
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/erasmus/erasmus_en.htm
LLP – Erasmus Programme – Directory project compendia
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/erasmus/erasmus_compendia_en.h
tml
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Contacts
[email protected]
Gilles GERVAIS / Martin FREWER
[email protected]
Maria-Luisa GARCIA MINGUEZ
[email protected]
Katarina SMALOVA
[email protected]
Katia de SOUSA
[email protected]
Martin FREWER
[email protected]
Katarina SMALOVA
[email protected]
Mireilla FABREGA IGLESIAS
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