Faculty of Economics Welcome

Consortium members :

• Université Pierre Mendes France (coordinator),
• Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg (Germany),
• Savonia Unoversity of applied sciences, Kuopio (Finland),
• Donetsk National Technical University (Ukraine),
• Kharkov Polytechnic Institute National Technical University (Ukraine),
• Vladimir Dale" National University of Eastern Ukraine, Lugansk.

Duration :

01/09/2007-31/08/2009

Budget :

308,390 euros

Objective:

"To develop new processes of cooperation between universities and companies in three technical universities in Eastern Ukraine, responding to the specific needs of vocational training in economics and management in the current conditions of restructuring and development of companies in this region".

Description :

The lack of cooperation and bilateral exchanges between universities and companies, in line with the requirements of the contemporary economy, became the main motive and focus of the project. The need for new skills in economics and management is particularly acute in the eastern part of Ukraine, where the economy is dominated by heavy industry.

The project's objectives and expected results were achieved by meeting the needs that proved to be the most pressing and the highest priorities to be met:

• the 6 pilot projects selected (3 in Donetsk, 3 in Kharkov) have enabled university-business relations to be anchored in concrete student training processes, using learning systems or forms geared to the active acquisition of the knowledge and skills required by changes in professional practices
• the support bodies created have been integrated into the institutional organization of the faculties of economics and management, based on the needs of the processes developed by these 6 projects
• references to practices at European universities in the consortium were a source not of simple transfer but of judicious adaptation to the Ukrainian context and to the conditions needed to ensure the best possible integration of graduates.

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