What is EUE-NET
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A network towards "New skills for new jobs".
The EUE-Net - European University-Enterprise Network - is an initiative to create a European Cooperation Network able to assemble and to coordinate the efforts towards a better collaboration between universities and enterprises at European level, to disseminate cooperation models and to promote best practices of collaboration in Europe, totally oriented to support the new European initiative "New skills for new jobs". While the new jobs requirements could not be identified without the cooperation of enterprises and entrepreneurs, the target groups of the project include graduates,students and learners in European universities, academic and research staff in European higher education institutions, university leadership, university stakeholders but also entrepreneurs, professional staff from enterprises, managers and policy makers. |
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History
Initiated in late 2003, EUE-Net is the first project in Europe that explicitly formulated and addressed the issue of University - Enterprise cooperation in a systematic way. It started following a series of events that took place in Romania during the previous years, and evolved into a mature network with a strong partnership of Universities, social partners and enterprises.
Objectives
The project has the following objectives:
- Enhancing the Quality of practical placements of students, by development of a quality standard for quality of practical placement in enterprises
- Increasing the presence of the entrepreneurs within the University activities by design, experiment and promotion of appropriate innovative mobility schemes involving entrepreneurs
- Tuning Entrepreneurship - Defining generic entrepreneurial skills for the students and best profile of teachers in order to enhance the entrepreneurial approach within the University Sector.
- Development and networking at European level the University entities having as natural vocation the link between University and Enterprise Network of Career Development Offices
Benefits
The main topic of the project is to improve the co-operation between higher education and enterprises in a 3W (win-win-win) scheme.
- Firstly, the Universities need to enhance the quality of their deliverables by involving, if not even integrating the Enterprises as an active actor in the training, curriculum design and academic offer formulation processes;
- Second, the enterprises to benefit from the highest qualified workforce and minimize internal training expenses in the early stages of fresh graduates work experience;
- Third, the students need to be exposed intensively, although gradually to the real life job situations in order to enable a full achievement of their potential from the very early stages of professional life.