General Objective:

Enhance universities’ social role by boosting university-community engagement, leading to the creation of state policy supporting universities’ third mission, ensuring social cohesion, resilience, sustainability, and prosperity in Ukraine.

Specific Objectives:

• Develop national policy on enhancing universities’ third mission and community-university cooperation.
• Create model strategies for university-community relations focused on civic activism, equality, and inclusion, piloting them in HEIs and communities.
• Promote cooperation between target groups and stakeholders based on European practices in inclusion, gender equality, cybersecurity, digitalization, ecology, and civic education.
• Increase social responsibility and community engagement by raising universities’ capacities in community development and local leadership.
• Foster cooperation through research/experience exchange visits, training programs, and mobilities.
• Ensure qualitative project implementation in line with European best practices in academic content and project management.
• Ensure proper cooperation among stakeholders for timely project implementation and reporting.

Project Consortium:

From Program Countries:

• Genoa University (Coordinator)
• Fachhochschule des Mittelstands
• University of Latvia
• Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
• Lund University
• Fondazione Sicurezza e Libertà
• Accreditation Council for Entrepreneurial and Engaged Universities

From Partner Country (Ukraine):

• Dragomanov Ukrainian State University (National Coordinator)
• Sumy National Agrarian University
• Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
• Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics
• Bohdan Khmelnitskiy Melitopol Pedagogical State University
• Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs
• National Pirogov Memorial Medical University
• Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine
• Ukrainian Association of Professors and Researchers of European Integration
• Ukrainian Association of European Studies
• Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine

Contacts:

Website: unicom.community

Guido Amoretti: [email protected]

Diana Spulber: [email protected]