The module includes four tailor-made courses on specific EU issues:

EU Practices to Support Innovative Engineering Entrepreneurship in Higher Education

Professor in charge: Dr. Dilbar Sultanova.

The course will give an overview of the EU policy to support innovative entrepreneurship including EU associations in polymer processing to support SMEs and procedures of collaboration between them. The course focuses on chemical, petrochemical and plastic clusters because target group MSc students are graduates from bachelor programs in chemical and polymer engineering. These students can become future engineering leaders who are motivated to work with the EU enterprises.

Course duration:25 contact hours).

Course syllabus:
1. An overview of the EU policy to support innovative entrepreneurship:
– public expenditures on research and development;
– communication of scientific research in the public sector with industry;
– tax incentives for scientific research;
– intellectual property issues;
– participation in market research of small and medium enterprises.
2. Best EU practices to facilitative innovative activities of small and medium size business. Experience of Germany, Ireland, France, Finland, the Netherlands.
3. Functions and responsibilities of the EU industrial clusters, business-associations, trade chambers and economic development agencies to find their best practices in international entrepreneurship.
4. Mechanisms to support small and medium size businesses within industrial clusters. The course focuses on chemical, petrochemical and plastic clusters.
5. Universities and centers of competencies in industry as drivers of the EU innovative development.
6. The EU R&D commercialization funds. EU grant giving foundations and associations to support SMEs and procedures of collaboration between them.
7. Horizon 2020: participation of the Russian research groups and small innovative enterprises.
8. The EU research and development internationalization
9. Integrated approach to national policy development.

Course impact: the students develop expertise in the EU entrepreneurship support policy. The course fosters introduction of EU angle into mainly non-EU related studies.

EU Quality Standards and Environmental Policy

Professor in charge: Dr. Anna Starodubova.

The course will include the issues of the EU environmental policies, certification procedures for the EU producers, new trends in environmentally friendly green chemistry and power engineering, EU tariff and non-tariff restrictions for export and import of chemical and polymer products.

Course duration: 17 contact hours.

Course syllabus:
1. The EU as a global environmental actor. EU environmental institutions and bodies.
2. The issues of the EU environmental policies.
3. Certification procedures for the EU producers, new trends in environmentally friendly green chemistry and power engineering.
4. EU tariff and non-tariff restrictions for export and import of chemical and polymer products.
5. EU research and innovation for building a resource-efficient and climate-resilient society and economy in sync with the natural environment.
6. Summaries of EU legislation on environment
7. Free trade challenges to EU environmental policy.

Course impact: the students develop an expertise in the EU standardization for environmental protection procedures. The course creates interest in the EU environment protection and standardization policy.

EU 3rd Generation Universities as an Integrated Innovative Environment for Young Future Makers

Professor in charge: Dr. Artem Bezrukov.

The course will familiarize students with the transition of European universities from centers of education to research centers and finally to the centers of innovations. The course will provide the analysis of entrepreneurial networking performed by such universities and how students can benefit from European innovative ecosystem at a university campus and become drivers of cutting-edge innovations across the world.

Course duration: 21 contact hours.

Course syllabus:
1. What are 3.0 universities in Europe and how the change their surrounding societies and incorporate students into a world-class research.
2. The history of EU university transformation into 3.0 universities.
3. Business incubators at EU universities and the opportunities they offer for young innovators.
4. Preparation of a grant application for an innovative product developed by a group of students based on an EU university demands.
5. Summary of an innovative ecosystem at European universities: from a student idea to a new disruptive technology
6. Young future makers from EU universities: success stories and approaches to copy.
Innovative brainstorming to satisfy the industrial and societal needs based on the best practices that student learn from EU universities.

Course impact: the students will develop skills in obtaining an ultimate benefit from an innovative ecosystem of their university by using best practices of entrepreneurial EU universities. Their professional portfolio will be enriched with the competences in developing new technologies for the surrounding industry needs, which at the same time will be focused on creating a better world and a safer and more sustainable environment, as it is done in EU.

EU Entrepreneurship Values: Social Responsibility, Intercultural Diversity and Inclusion

Professor in charge: Dr. Julia Ziyatdinova.

The course will include the issues of the EU policy development in social responsibility of the business including the ecological policy, creation of the new job places, migration policy, choice of minimal environmental damage technologies, health saving technologies, cross-cultural diversities for doing business in different EU countries.

Course duration: 23 contact hours.

Course syllabus:
1. Europe: Cultural Identity – Cultural Diversity. The search for a central concept in Europe’s cultural identity. The promotion of the culture as a driver of innovation and creative endeavor.
2. ‘United in Diversity’ – cultural clusters in the EU and their influence on doing business.
3. The placing of culture as a main element of the EU’s external relations, in order to foster understanding with other parts of the world.
4. The EU culture in its policy on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the interests of enterprises. Evaluation of the impact of European policy on CSR. Enhancing the visibility of CSR and disseminating good practices.
5. The EU New Skills for New Jobs initiative Forecasts by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP). Analysis of emerging trends at sectoral level and the development of sectoral skills councils.
6. Efficiency of health saving technologies and health care systems in the EU.

Course impact: the students will develop awareness of cultural diversity and unity in the EU and their demonstration in entrepreneurial activities. The course creates interest in the EU cultural issues.

⚹This project has been co-funded by the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union. The publication reflects the views only of the author (s), and the Commission and / nor Agency cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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