Handbooks can be outdated, friendship is forever. The EUCA-InVEst project is over
With the Kick-off Meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan started project Investing in Entrepreneurial Universities in Caucasus and Central Asia (shortly EUCA - InVEst) three years ago. The same project has now ended with the International conference and Partners meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia.
The aim of the project was to improve college and business cooperation in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan and strengthen the role of local universities as active institutions contributing to the socio-economic development of the country.
Thanks to the project, it was possible to create or strengthen workplaces linking the commercial sphere with universities. University staff was trained to be in charge of business support and curricula have been upgraded. And above all, the so-called CreaLab - an accelerator for student entrepreneurial ideas - was established in each of the participating Georgian and Kyrgyz universities.
TTO of Masaryk University shared its experience, organized several training sessions for local university staff (in Bishkek, Tbilisi, and Brno), and hosted fifty students at the weekly workshop in Brno.
As Caucasus University Rector Kakha Shengelia said in his speech: "Handbooks can be outdated, but friendship is forever." At the very end of the project, we are happy to announce we´ve signed Memorandum of Understanding in knowledge transfer with our partners from Caucasus University and Kyrgyz Economic University.
For more information, please visit the project website.
