Acronym
MERCURY
Full title
Towards Research and Entrepreneurial University models in the Russian, Ukrainian and Moldavian Higher Education
Programme
Tempus IV
Contract number
144855-TEMPUS-2008-DE-JPHES
Abstract
MERCURY (Towards Research and Entrepreneurial University models in the Russian, Ukrainian and Moldavian Higher Education) is a Tempus IV Joint European Project. These projects aim to increase cooperation and network-building between actors in higher education in EU Member States and partner countries, and help the higher education sector propagate its knowledge outside academic institutions.
It will address the need of Russian, Ukrainian and Moldavian universities to improve their university business relations via creating a university system for research and entrepreneurial activities support able to facilitate improvements in general climate for spin-off businesses creation, technology transfer, self-employment of students, staff members and graduates, intellectual property protection.
MERCURY aims at
- creating/restructuring IPR Management Offices in the partner Universities enabling them to efficiently protect and manage University Knowledge, generate more value and stimulate Technology Transfer
- studying and benchmarking European and local experiences of University services for Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship support, and develop recommendations for structural reforms
- improving the capacity of the partner Universities to attract financial resources for innovation activities via private-public partnerships and securing competitive funding of projects and programmes
- disseminating obtained results and enable their uptake on the national levels.
Duration
36 months (15/01/2009 – 14/01/2012)
Project funding
773.433 €
Coordinator
Saarland University
Contact Office for Knowledge and Technology Transfer
Uta Merkle
66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
Phone: +49 681 302 20 27 / Fax: +49 681 302 42 70
Email
Partners
- European Research and Project Office GmbH, Germany
- University of Alicante, Spain
International Relations Department (Prof. Roberto Escarre) - Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland (Dariusz Kasprzycki)
- Santander Universities, Russia
Global Division (Irina Tverdokhleb) - St. Petersburg Electro-technical University (LETI), Russia (Dr. Mikhail Shestopalov)
- Committee for Science and Higher Education of St. Petersburg, Russian Federation (Dr. Andrey Maximov)
- Southern Federal University, Russia
International Relations Department (Dr. Vladimir Zhukov) - Republican Research Institute for Intellectual Property, Russia (Prof. Dr. Vladimir Lopatin)
- National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Research Department (Dr. Larisa Gubernuk) - Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
International Cooperation and European Integration Department (Omelyan Sukholitkyi) - State Agency of Ukraine for Investments and Innovations
Innovation Development Department (Oleg Khymenko) - Moldova State University, Moldova (Prof. Dr. Petru Gaugas)
- State Agency for Intellectual Property of Moldova
International Cooperation and European Integration Office (Liliana Vieru)
Contact at Eurice
Melanie Paulus
Project Officer
Phone: + 49 681 9592 3375
Email