Description
“Transferring V4 expertise in knowledge/technology transfer” project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
The aim of the project is to promote the culture of enterprise-research infrastructure cooperation in Armenia and Georgia, based on the successful experience of the Visegrad partner countries. Within the framework of the project it is envisaged:
- raise awareness of SMEs and research institutes in Armenia and Georgia on the benefits of joint research activities;
- enhance the knowledge and skills of the staff responsible for knowledge and technology transfer in the target countries of the Eastern Partnership;
- develop a concept of cooperation between SMEs and research infrastructures in the target countries of the Eastern Partnership.
The main activities of the project are:
- Project launch events in Yerevan and Tbilisi
- Workshops on Knowledge and Technology Transfer in Yerevan and Tbilisi
- Contest for the best cooperation plan/vision with RI/Academia
- Development of Knowledge/Technology tranfer strategies of CANDLE SRI and TSU
- Summary report on the current status of SMEs-RI/Academia cooperation in Armenia and Georgia
- Project output dissemination events in Yerevan and Tbilisi
The project partners are:
- Armenian State University of Economics (ASUE), Armenia, http://asue.am/,
- Center for the Advancement of Natural Discoveries using Light Emission (CANDLE), Armenia, http://candle.am/,
- Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU), Georgia, https://www.tsu.ge/,
- Technical University of Kosice (TUKE), Slovakia, https://www.tuke.sk/,
- Silesian University of Technology (SUT), Poland, https://www.polsl.pl/,
- Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/
Project coordinator - Armenian State University of Economics