Cap4Com: university & enterprise cooperation

University & enterprise cooperation for competency-based training in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine.

Acronym: Cap4Com - Capacity for Competency

Project number: 516613-TEMPUS-1-2011-1-BE-TEMPUS-JPHES

Tempus IV was started in 2008 with an annual budget of around 50 million euro. Each individual project receives funding of between 0.5 and 1.5 million euro.

The EU’s Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) is responsible for the management of all Tempus actions, under the supervision of the European Commission.

Project title: Building capacity for University-Enterprise partnerships towards competency based training in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine

Cap4Com is a Tempus project funded by the European Union, active in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine.

Cap4Com was created to make higher education in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine relevant to current market economy and needs of society. It is aimed to the partnership of universities with wide range of enterprises and businesses.

Post-soviet countries currently experience a lack of partnership among stakeholders from different sectors: education and industry, commerce and culture, authorities and society. New elements of society, especially business, develop faster while the other parts of society react slowly to any changes.

In particular, infrastructure is incapable to support university-enterprise partnership, which is demanded by knowledge based market economy. This fact drastically hinders development. In the past, relations of universities and enterprises were coordinated within the command-administrative system. While the old gears have gone, nothing was created to address new needs of modern society.

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