National Tempus / Erasmus+
Office in Ukraine

Project Title : Knowledge Mobility for Social Integration and Economic Interaction

Target group: students, graduates, faculties, entrepreneurs, executive management of industry enterprises, local community administration staff.

Coordinator: Bakushevych Ivanna, Professor, PhD, Fulbr. Professor

Contacts: phone: +380677940830, e-mail: ibakushevych@gmail.com

Project goals and objectives:

1. Exchange of scholars for the collaborative educational programs and methods of instruction of academic disciplines development, with the inclusion of distance education technologies, education for people with special needs and the elderly (‘third millennium university’);

2. Student exchange: organizing study tours and internship on socially-oriented companies in different regions of EU and Ukraine; providing social events, arranging social activities; on-site trainings in ecology-friendly firms and companies providing ecological services (including agro - consulting), student volunteer projects aimed at promoting local communities, work in orphanages, shelters for the homeless, and other welfare institutions;

3. Collaborative promotional activity of the project participants for local and international networking of the regions to impact the shaping of public opinion in the areas of ecology, the social responsibility of business and social support of vulnerable groups;

4. The creation of the knowledge triangle: education– research– innovation to promote knowledge and technologies transfers of social and business innovations among partnering universities, foreign companies by organizing international forums, conferences, research projects ( together with the Ternopil Institute of agricultural production, Ternopil research station of the Institute of Veterinary Medicine, the Institute of Regional Research of the National Academy of Sciences, as well as a network of business incubators and technology transfer centers in Ukraine and Poland;

5. Developing common quality standards of governance of processes of innovative, socially-oriented entrepreneurship and promotion of a healthy lifestyle; implementation of European quality standards into environment-friendly manufacturing and service processes, as well as revitalization processes of depressive territories.

Project coordinator in Ukraine:

The Ternopil Institute of Social and Information Technologies (TISIT)

tel.: 0352 528310, fax: 0352 523996, e-mail:info@tisit.edu.ua

Responsible person:

Bakushevych Ivanna, Vice-Rector for International Affairs and Scientific Development

Contacts: phone: +380677940830, e-mail: ibakushevych@gmail.com