ROMANIAN-UKRAINIAN TRANS-BORDER ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATIONS

Abstract

Establish a communication environment between Ukrainian and Romanian Partners – universities and NGO – with regional companies to use joint academicals research and innovation potential for real needs of companies, to improve exchange of good practice, the opportunities for cooperation over innovations. The ways of implementation of the project-oriented training principles in the technical university are presented, which will allow to actively involve students in scientific and innovative activities within the educational process and the performance of qualification work. The ways of increasing the innovative activity of engineering specialties students, which are proposed, include: Center of Innovation Development, equipped with modern technologies machine and tools, the researchers and students, who are able to create mockups and prototypes of their projects; database, which contains registration of companies needs of development and innovation, connects universities with economical actors; the information system, which provides documentary support to researchers and students’ activities. This model of work allows the creation of associations, including cross-border, between different universities depending on the scope of tasks and the level of opportunities for implementation of decisions. The main results of the implementation of the international grant project RoUaTADRI “Ro-Ua Trans-border Academic Development for Reseach and Innovation” in the framework of the cross-border cooperation program Romania-Ukraine 2014-2020 are presented.

Keywords

• technical education
• innovation development
• student project groups
• diy ideology