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Doru Talaba EUE-Net: European University- Enterprise Network European University-Enterprise Network LABA, Professor, University Transilvania of Brasov, coordinator
Doru Talaba
EUE-Net: European University-Enterprise Network
European University-Enterprise Network
Doru TALABA, Professor, University Transilvania of Brasov, RomaniaProject coordinator
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EUI-Net has finished
Long life to the new project EUE-Net !
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EUI-Net• A general idea • 71 partners at startThe “journey” – A very successful project
– 3 Conferences, research and Tuning studies– 5 books published, – databases, – dissemination and exceptional visibility (notoriety in Europe)– Legal body with seat at Brussels
• The most important output the new project agenda and a new, more focused approach EUE-Net
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EUE-Net
• 52 partners• Building on the previous EUI-Net experience• More attention to enterprises: not only large but also
SME’s and and micro-enterprises• Slightly increased budget• Using instruments that proved effective in EUI-Net:
the Annual Conferences, brainstorming meetings, a Tuning methodology on Entrepreneurship
• A strategy derived directly from Lisbon agenda
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Lisbon agendaA simple model Growth-Jobs-Knowledge (creation, innovation, transfer)
Enterprises Graduate Universities
Cooperation
• Demonstrates the crucial importance of U-E cooperation
• Cooperation graduate !• EUE-Net addresses this challenge systematically
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University Graduate the vector of University-Enterprise cooperation
• Knowledge carrier (millions of vectors annually in Europe transferring knowledge from University to the Enterprise sector)
• Current situation:
University period
Graduate professional evolution and lifeProfessional efficiency
(employment, entrepreneur etc) (No accompaniment) “Dead valley”
The main cooperation area → at the border !
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Three areas of cooperation
The three dimensional approach of EUE-Net → Three corresponding projects - the new project action lines !
University periodGraduate professional evolution and life
Professional efficiency
University extension
Entreprise extension
Practical placement of students
Employment mediationCareer
DevelopmentOffices - CDO’s
Feedback from
Enterprises
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EUE-Net axis 1: Q-PlaNetQuality of practical placements
• Background:– Practical placement – not enough regulated (U&E)– Best practice: local U-E arrangements– Increased mobility (Erasmus, Leonardo etc) – no arrangement,
difficult to set up• Urgent need: the two systems need to interact
– Ideally – the 2 systems must integrate Practical Placement of students in their current Quality Systems !!
• EUE-Net current action → Quality Standards and “European Network of Regional Reference Centres” for PP
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EUE-Net axis 2: Network of Career Development Offices (CDO-Net)
– Local actors– Maintain databases of graduates or students approaching graduation and
available positions in enterprises– Usually 5000-20000 records– Several hunderds of CDO’s in Europe
• CDO’s are the natural job mediators between U-E• EUE-Net goal: European Network of CDO’s
– Globalisation of mediation at European scale– Assembled database: European barometer of employment needs and
qualifications available (matching offer and demand)
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EUE-Net axis 3: Enterprenaut
• Background: – In Europe only 40% of students think about creation of their own
business after graduation (60% in USA)– Entrepreneurship is not yet a generic skill (and general subject in the
curricula)• Two EUE-Net experiments at European scale:
– Defining and promotion of Entrepreneurship in University: Tailored offer to entrepreneurs, massively integrating recognition of non-formal and informal learning
– Promotion of mobility of entrepreneurs within University (Enterprenaut)
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Two experimental Entreprenaut mobility flows developed under EUI-Net
• Partners: Entrepreneurs from Brussels and Brescia– Host: University Transilvania of Brasov
• Duration: 1 week. Content:• Attending some classes with students (see what and how is taught )• Giving some lectures with academics (“learning by doing”, “learning by
teaching”)• Language training• Sketch of their business expansion with selected students• Follow up (in May – July ‘07): linked student mobility• Expected result: students will create their own job or business, entrepreneurs
accumulating formal University transferable credits• Positive feedback from the entrepreneurs – but no follow up
(out of EUI-Nte scope !)• Long term target: Tailored training offers for entrepreneurs,
massive non-formal and informal learning
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EUE-Net projects
• For each axis a project under preparation for LLL• EUE-Net – is providing the full European coverage
and support• The projects – a slightly reduced but more
operational partnership
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Lessons learned• University-Enterprise cooperation - very complex issue• Only graduates taken into consideration. What about
research and Innovation ?– Some instruments already in place by DG Enterprise
Research (IRC’s, CRAFT, COST,etc)• Unless an official European framework for U-E
cooperation is established, U-E cooperation will remain scattered, just as result of occasional projects like EUI-Net
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– Institutional building and systemic approach. – Powerful instruments and substantial framework creation
• Standards and guidelines - for example proposal of an improvement of ISO 9000 with a new type of procedure: cooperative procedure (e.g. for Student placements)
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EUE-Net Action Lines
• Veritable projects on their own• Efforts ongoing to promote projects with the
extended ideas• Next opportunity – new 2008 LLL call with deadline
at the end of Feb• Interest growing also at DG Enterprise and DG
Research (FP7) on the topic
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7 WORK-PACKAGES:
1. Quality of practical placements (Q-Planet)2. European Network of Career Development Offices
(CDO-Net)3. Tuning study on Entrepreneurship4. Entrepreneurial mobility scheme (Enterprenaut)5. Dissemination 6. Network expansion (China ?)7. Project management
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AVAILABLE RESOURCES
• Project budget• 600 KEuro (total)• 450 KEuro (EU funding compared with 336K EUI-Net)• Again 100% funding for travel and subsistence• A lot of staff cost need again to be declared to justify the
co-financingHOWEVER• Better and more clear (thus easy to produce) outputs
promised compared to EUI-Net• Further funding expected through complementary projects
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EXPECTED OUTPUTS
• EUE-Net standard (guidelines) on PPS• A core CDO Network and a unified database • Tuning book on Entrepreneurship• Entrepreneurship mobility experiment and report• Guidelines for a European programme on
Entrepreneurship mobility• Conference proceedings, website, Newsletters • EUE-Net Agenda 2010-2013
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Conclusions
• EUE-Net is still a small initiative compared to the complexity and dimensions of the U-E cooperation matter
• It identified however the targets and the necessary framework to reach them
• Could be the starting point for a well dimensioned European approach
• New partnership within the Network for new project encouraged and supported via our lobby
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First EUE-Net meeting
• Devoted to the first Action Line Practical Placements of Students (PPS)
Why PPS is the first AL for EUE-Net ?
BECAUSE:
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Practical placement
…Because:• Is one of the most important component of the curriculum –
yet it is planned in the most approximated way !• Is IMPOSSIBLE without U-E cooperation • There is no procedure defined at European level to
integrate COOPERATION and serve as source for the procedures in U and in E !
• It involves a new type of procedure totally unknown in today’s ISO 9000 cooperative procedure - how to solve this ???
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Our mission• To elaborate a framework for the DESIGN, PLANNING,
ORGANIZING and ASSESSING PPS outputs, to become a standard in Europe and a model at International level.OUTPUT: PPS Detailed PPS life cycle stages
• To define and promote a EUROPEAN STANDARD for the cooperative activities of the two actors (U-E) with clear responsibilities to be integrated into their respective QA systems OUTPUT: clear responsibilities among the 2 actors for each step above – not responsibility left “in between” to no one
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Our mission (2)
• To promote this model in Europe through – the European Commission– a European (or even ISO) standard on PPS
• First stage: the conference in Rome– All views and experiences inside the network presented – Collected into proceedings
• Second stage: the present workshop– A synthetic approach expected– More focused contributions to define a EUE-Net proposed model as
explained above– Extended debates (time allocated = time for presentations)
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For Speakers
• As a conclusion of your cases try to answer some fundamental question:– What is a “cooperative procedure” ?– Could such “thing” exist or is it a non-sense ???– Are there “features” of “a cooperative procedure”
illustrated in my case ? – For which stage of the PPS Life Cycle (DESIGN,
PLANNING, ORGANIZING or ASSESSING PPS) ?
