Faculty's European Projects

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The UAB, through the Faculty of Economics and Business, participates as a member of the European project InnoHEIs, co-financed by the ERDF through the Interreg Europe programme. This 4-year project (August 2019 - July 2023) has the participation of 10 additional partners from France, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Poland and Lithuania, and it is led by the Hanze University of Applied Sciences (Groningen, Netherlands).

The InnoHEIs project aims at expanding the role of universities (HEIs) and their research and innovation infrastructure (RII) as key agents for the development of regional innovation. Encouraging entrepreneurship and creativity brings many benefits to HEIs and regions. The InnoHEIs project addresses the challenge of improving the role of HEIs RII as a facilitator of the entrepreneurial discovery process (EDP), which is an inclusive and interactive bottom-up process in which participants from different environments (policy-making, companies, academics , etc.) discover possible new activities and opportunities that arise from this interaction. Universities, with their human infrastructures and capabilities, can create collaborations that facilitate the integration of fragmented and distributed business knowledge in many organizations, companies, universities, customers and users. Thus, the members of InnoHEIs study the possibilities of mobilizing these RIIs for the development of regional innovation by eliminating barriers between different types of RII, improving their and inter-sectoral collaboration.

The strategic objective of InnoHEIs is to create a favourable environment with the aim of improving the use of the infrastructure of innovation through a better involvement of its users and customers and a greater scientific and industrial collaboration. Partners will collaborate to improve the RII performance of HEIs that respond to regional needs and demands through open cooperation methods, co-creation, demand and approaches, driven by users and to address the social challenges of society.

More information at: https://www.interregeurope.eu/innoheis/
Project PR: Ricard Esparza Masana (ricard.esparza@uab.cat)
 

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In order to strengthen scientific cooperation and increase the knowledge and technology transfer between EU and LA, the EULA-GTEC project will allow sharing the experience developed in both areas (good practices) and using renewed blended learning tools (methodology and approaches) in particular in the field of technology and innovation management (TIM). The project has the following three main aims:

• To develop, test, and implement an international pilot experience, run by LA and EU HEIs, based on a master degree for promoting TIM in SMEs, using blended learning instruments.
• To increase the relevance of LA and EU HEIs in the connection process between research and
innovation, within a Circular Economy approach.
• To build a collaborative international network with HEIs, SMEs, technology brokers, R&D centres, local and national authorities, and different actors involved into the innovation process, for designing and implementing the pilot experience.

These aims are convergent into one main unique target of the project, which is:

► To promote the creation of new academic profiles that allow the generation of creative links between the research centres/universities and the socio-productive sector, and foster innovative sustainable solutions for both regions based on new and/or innovative technologies or solutions.

This project is led by the National University of Luján (Argentina) and co-led by the UAB. In addition, other Latin American universities (in Peru, Brazil and Argentina) as well as in the EU (in France, Portugal and Italy) participate.

More information at: https://eula-gtec.unlu.edu.ar/

Project PRs: David Urbano (David.Urbano@uab.cat) & Ricard Esparza Masana (Ricard.Esparza@uab.cat)
 

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Just as the Bologna process created the European framework for the comparability and compatibility of the various degrees, facilitating better communication between universities and greater support for inter-country mobility of students and workers, this project proposes that an important group Institutions of Higher Education in Latin America use this important reference framework to initiate, develop and sustain a Latin American interuniversity debate, with the participation of Ministries of Education and regional organisations such as Parlasur, around quality assurance and the results of postgraduate learning, skills, credits and, recognised as true pillars of student-centred learning.

In this context, different European universities, including the UAB and other universities in France, Italy and Spain, provide support and advice to universities in Argentina and Paraguay to implement pilot tests in postgraduate programs in different fields of knowledge, based on the four Main axes of the project: credit system, competencies, student-based education, and quality systems, each European university advising on the chosen fields of knowledge.

The project will also generate synergies between European and Latin American universities for the exchange of knowledge, mobility of teachers and students, and possible ways of future collaboration.

More information at: http://www.consensproject.org/

Project PRs: David Urbano (David.Urbano@uab.cat) & Ricard Esparza Masana (Ricard.Esparza@uab.cat)