SUCCESS Project; Cooperation agreements between university and industry in partner countries
Posted date: 09 Jul 2021
Epoka University is a partner HEI of an Erasmus+ project, Sustainable University – Enterprise Cooperation for Improving Graduate Employability (SUCCESS), is a project funded by the European Commission which brings together universities and various enterprises from Albania, Bosnia & Hercegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and some EU countries like Germany, Spain and Poland aiming to strengthen the University-Enterprise partnership in areas of education and knowledge transfer based on the market needs and to improve student employability.
In the framework of the project, two surveys were conducted to universities and the industry, to identify existing cooperation agreements between university and industry in partner countries. Albanian Partners are Epoka University, University “Ismail Qemali” Vlore and University “Luigj Gurakuqi” Shkodra and under the supervision of these universities were collected 67 responses regarding the Survey for Universities and 60 responses regarding the Survey for Companies.
It was largely observed the lack of the cooperation but a good will of academic staff and the industry sector representatives to create communication and collaboration channels which would improve even the education system and make more applicable the scientific research, while in other hand would help the industry sector to hire relevant university experts to meet their needs for personnel with scientific and technical skills.
Working group members of the HEIs provided recommendations regarding the solution of the problems of the cooperation between university and enterprise go in two direction: a review of the legal basis in which this cooperation should be included in the future and the creation of a joint forum, a common platform for the exchange of ideas and experiences that can overcome communication problems, because non-communication seems to cause indifference and a lack of understanding of the needs of the non-academic sector.
The final report with details of each part of the surveys might be found here.
Reference Link: http://www.epoka.edu.al/news-
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