On October 9-19, 2019, the academic coordinator and leader of the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module “The European Union Entrepreneurial Environment at HEIs: Changing the World by Technology Ventures” Dr. Dilbar Sultanova completed an internship on the program “Innovative Management” in Enterprise Europe Network ZENIT Center for Innovation und Technologies in North Rhine Westphalia GMBH.
The Germany Federal State North Rhine Westphalia has the densest research and development infrastructure in Europe (70 universities, 14 Fraunhofer institutes, 12 Max Planck institutes and over 50 research centers). North Rhine Westphalia is the GDP leader among the federal states of Germany (over one fifth of the total country’s GDP of Germany), and the leader in attracting foreign capital.
ZENIT makes a substantial contribution to commercialization of research results in the industrial companies of North Rhine Westphalia (NRW) and to creation of start-ups for implementing competitive engineering projects in the territory of the region.
ZENIT implements a special project “The Axis of Collaboration between North Rhine Westphalia and Russia”. In the last few years, the project coordinator Sergej Paveliev organized a series of meetings between the Russian companies and the representatives of the NRW innovative infrastructure, including the leaders of chemical parks, technoparks and research companies, members of ZENIT.
Kazan National Research Technological University has been the member of ZENIT for 5 years. ZENIT will act as a reviewer of the teaching and learning materials developed within the JM Module. Moreover, ZENIT has provided KNRTU with valuable practical materials which were previously used to encourage innovative activities in NRW based on the example of this network. These materials elaborated the courses within the JM Module and can be further used for developing the entrepreneurial university concept at KNRTU.



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