The goals of the project are as follows:
- Modernisation, internationalisation and increasing access to Georgian higher education for next generation labour market actors with emphasis on equal opportunities, gender sensitivity and the inclusion of marginalised (including better services to students from remote/rural areas).
- Addressing the challenges faced by Georgian HEIs towards becoming a transformational engine of sustainable and responsible (environmentally, socially) engine of growth, jobs and enterprise creation by radically transforming how innovation production is being performed within universities and by training HEIs to become quadruple helix ecosystem mobilisers.
- Increasing cooperation with the EU by developing a network of HEI capacity building provision, staff exchange and multi-ecosystem co-creation and by motivating Georgian HEIs to voluntarily converge with EU standards in higher education while promoting cross-societal exchange and collaboration, intercultural awareness, and understanding.
The project is financed as part of the Erasmus+ Capacity Building Higher Education Programme (agreement no: 101125355).
The team from the Faculty of Management of the University of Lodz (Dr Magdalena Wiśniewska, Dr Małgorzata Żak-Skwierczyńska, Dr Paweł Głodek, Associate Professor and mgr Izabella Szudrowicz) will cooperate with partners from the EU TUM International GmbH (Dr Aline Margaux Laucke, Kathrin Albrecht) X Helixconnect Europe (Adrian Solomon) and the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Hossein Azadi, Christine Fürst), as well as universities from Georgia: Kutaisi International University ერსიტეტი (Magda Magradze, Mariam Naneishvili), Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( TSU) (Tea Gergedava) and Gori State University (Zurab Zurabashvili). Dr hab. T. Bartosz Kalinowski, Associate Professor from the University of Lodz Faculty of Management is the project coordinator.
Edit: Faculty of Management, University of Lodz