EUE-Net: European University-Enterprise Network

1. European University-Enterprise Network EUE-Net: European University-Enterprise Network Doru TALABA, Professor, University Transilvania of Brasov, Romania Project coordinator

2. EUI-Net has finished Long life to the new project  EUE-Net !

3. A general idea 71 partners at start The “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 EUI-Net

4. 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 EUE-Net

5. Lisbon agenda A 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

6. Knowledge carrier (millions of vectors annually in Europe transferring knowledge from University to the Enterprise sector) Current situation: University Graduate the vector of University-Enterprise cooperation University period Graduate professional evolution and life Professional efficiency (employment, entrepreneur etc) (No accompaniment) “Dead valley” The main cooperation area → at the border !

7. The three dimensional approach of EUE-Net → Three corresponding projects - the new project action lines ! Three areas of cooperation University period University extension Graduate professional evolution and life Entreprise extension Professional efficiency Practical placement of students Employment mediation Career Development Offices - CDO’s Feedback from Enterprises

8. 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 EUE-Net axis 1: Q-PlaNetQuality of practical placements

9. 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) EUE-Net axis 2: Network of Career Development Offices (CDO-Net)

10. 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) EUE-Net axis 3: Enterprenaut

11. 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 Two experimental Entreprenaut mobility flows developed under EUI-Net

12. 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 EUE-Net projects

13. 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 Lessons learned

14. 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)

15. 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 EUE-Net Action Lines

16. Quality of practical placements (Q-Planet) European Network of Career Development Offices (CDO-Net) Tuning study on Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial mobility scheme (Enterprenaut) Dissemination Network expansion (China ?) Project management 7 WORK-PACKAGES:

17. 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-financing HOWEVER Better and more clear (thus easy to produce) outputs promised compared to EUI-Net Further funding expected through complementary projects AVAILABLE RESOURCES

18. 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 EXPECTED OUTPUTS

19. 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 Conclusions

20. Devoted to the first Action Line Practical Placements of Students (PPS) Why PPS is the first AL for EUE-Net ? BECAUSE: First EUE-Net meeting

21. …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 ??? Practical placement

22. 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 Our mission

23. 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) Our mission (2)

24. 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) ? For Speakers

25. Good Luck EUE-Net 2007-2010! Doru Talaba Project coordinator talaba@unitbv.ro