Project Summary
UniClad aims to enhance the development of the potential of universities as an integral part of agro-industrial clusters by the creation of expertise centres as pre-conditions for the development and successful functioning of agro-industrial clusters.
These objectives will be achieved through the following activities:
- Organization of workshops, consultations, round-tables in order to present the concept of clusters and to share ideas concerning creation of expertise centers supposed to be transformed into the cluster;
- Training of HEIs and enterprises staff by workshops and study tours;
- Development of legal framework for expertise centres creation: Statutes of expertise centers, post cards, work regulations. Amendments will be done in development strategies of participating HEIs and enterprises;
- Creation expertise centers on following areas: water management and aquaculture, new technologies (IT) in machinery, rural tourism, milk production and processing with the focus on traditional local products, biotechnologies in poultry farming;
- Development and launching of new modules for Master and PhD students as added value;
- Launching of pilot projects: the projects will be defined according to enterprises needs and universities possibilities for scientific elaborations and their application on practice;
- The students’ mobility will be organized in two ways from partner countries to EU and from EU to partner countries;
- In addition to traditional dissemination activities the project foresees the information and promotion campaign among stakeholder to disseminate the EU experience of clusters activity.
EXPECTED IMPACTS:
- creation of sustainable relations between HEIs and enterprises based on win-win principles, enhancing of practical value of researches;
- creation of conditions for better integration of innovations into production on the sustainability principles; development of entrepreneurial capacities of HEIs, contribution to the development of local area.
Source of funding : This project has been funded with support from the European Commission
Total budget : 985 255,00 €
Partners :
- KUAS – Kaunas University of Applied Sciences - Lithuania
- UCAEP - University College for Agrarian and Environmental Pedagogy Vienna - Austria
- BAB - Federal institute of agricultural economics, rural and mountains research - Austria
- UVA – University of Valladolid - Spain
- UD – University of Debrecen - Hungary
- PULS - Poznan University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Social Studies - Poland
- HPHE – Science and methodology center of higher and pre-higher education - Ukraine
- UKRAINIAN FOOD VALLEY - Public union “Ukrainian food valley” - Ukraine
- CUNTU - Central Ukrainian National Technical University - Ukraine
- ISA NAAS - Institute of Steppe Agriculture of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine - Ukraine
- PSAA - Poltava State Agrarian academy - Ukraine
- DOBRO-CRAFT - Farmer enterprise “DOBRO-KRAFT” - Ukraine
- LNAU - Lviv National Agrarian University - Ukraine
- YNNP - Yavoriv National Nature Park - Ukraine
- BTNAU - Bila Tserkva national agrarian university - Ukraine
- CSU - Comrat State University-Moldova - Ukraine
- SANA - SRL Fabrica Oloi Pak / SANA - Moldova
- SAUM - State Agrarian University of Moldova - Moldova
- TERA – Terafix - Moldova
- ASAU - Azerbaijan State Agricultural University - Azerbaijan
- SAF - Suliddinoglu Agriculture Farm - Azerbaijan
