General objective of the project:
To enhance universities’ social role through boosting university-community engagement leading to the elaboration of state policy on supporting the third mission of universities for ensuring social cohesion, resilience, sustainability and prosperity in Ukraine.
Specific objectives
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To develop the model strategies for relations between universities and communities based on their needs and aimed to enhance civic activism and citizen engagement based on principles of equality, solidarity, non-discrimination and inclusion and to pilot them in the HEI’s and communities involved (indicators: 7 on Ukrainian universities’ visions on the cooperation with the communities in terms of their social responsibility and university development strategies;
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To foster the cooperation between the project target groups and stakeholders on university-community cooperation based on European experiences and practices (indicators: research/experience exchange visits to European partners and internally for experience exchange and cooperation; the number of participants at the project events and mobilities performed; training programs and relevant teaching materials for the project teaching component, a future summit);
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To foster the cooperation between the project target groups and stakeholders on university-community cooperation based on European experiences and practices in the field of inclusion and gender equality, cyber security and digitalization, ecology, and civic education, etc. (indicators: community empowerment program, 3 hackathons, 2 volunteering programs);
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To develop and discuss national policy on enhancing the third mission of universities and community-university cooperation (indicators: a policy paper; a road map, national guidelines, a research published);
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To increase the social responsibility and community engagement of universities through raising their capacities in the area of community development and local leadership (indicators: joint reports on the needs of the communities and their expectations from the cooperation with the HEIs);6.
To ensure the qualitative project implementation is in line with best European practices as to the academic content and project management;
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To ensure the qualitative project implementation is in line with best European practices as to the academic content and project management.Project plan
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To develop the model strategies for relations between Universities and communities based on their needs and aimed to enhance civic activism and citizen’s engagement based on principles of equality, solidarity, non-discrimination, and inclusion and to pilot them in the HEIs and communities involved.
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To foster the cooperation between the project target groups and stakeholders on university-community cooperation based on European experiences and practices in the field of inclusion and gender equality, cyber security and digitalization, ecology, and civic education, etc. (indicators: community empowerment programme, 3 hackathons, 2 volunteering programs );
To develop the model strategies for relations between Universities and communities based on their needs and aimed to enhance civic activism and citizen’s engagement based on principles of equality, solidarity, non-discrimination and inclusion and to pilot them in the HEIs and communities involved.
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To develop and to discuss national policy on enhancing the third mission of universities and community-university cooperation
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To inform stakeholders, target groups and a wider audience about project events and outcomes and to ensure the sustainability of the project achievements.
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To assure the qualitative project implementation in line with best European practices as to the academic content and project management.
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To ensure proper cooperation between PI, target groups and stakeholders in order implement the project dully and timely to report to European and national authorities.
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