General Objective:

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:

– 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);

– 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;

– 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);

– 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);

– 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);

– To ensure the qualitative project implementation is in line with best European practices as to the academic content and project management;

– To ensure proper cooperation between PI, target groups, and stakeholders in order to implement the project dully and timely to report to European and national authorities.

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 Electronic

– 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