The project aims to create an European network of universities and industrial partners to strengthen the university – industry cooperation in the field of education, research and services in a wider European perspective, contributing to the defining and strengthening the role of University within the European Education Area.

EUI-Net

European University - Industry Network

TARGET GROUPS

Graduates, students and learners in European universities, academic and research staff in European higher education institutions, university leadership, university stakeholders; professional staff from industrial companies, managers and policy makers etc.

EUI-Net partners

Project partners are 71 organisation from 25 European countries. From Latvia there are 3 partners:

• Banking institution of Higher Education,
• Business Innovation Center of Latvian Electronic Industry (LEBIC),
• Rezekne Higher Education Institution.
  

Project coordinator – Transilvania University of Brasov

Specific objectives of the project

• Defining and updating generic and specific competences relevant to the industrial sector,
• Generic and specific competences for the practical stages of the students as part of the curriculum,
• Promoting synergies between teaching – learning – research in the Universities,
• To integrate research results in the teaching programmes,
• To stimulate the innovation capacity.
  

IMPACT

• Teaching – better adapting the curricula to the industrial needs
• Practical stages of students
• Research
  

• Creating University – Industry consortiums
  
• Stimulate participation to the creation of the ERA
  
• Create synergy in participation in the research framework programme of the European Commission (e.g. FP6)
  
• Integrate the research results in teaching.
• Mediating University – Industry direct research cooperation