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The Universities’ Reaction to Big Obstructions: Building resilient higher education to respond and manage societal crises

Name of the Erasmus+ programme direction: Capacity building in the field of higher education

Project type: Capacity Building in Higher Education

Project number: 101129315

Project name: The Universities’ Reaction to Big Obstructions: Building resilient higher education to respond and manage societal crises

Short name of the project (acronym): TURBO

Main project coordinator (university): Nord University (Norway)

Project coordinator from KNU: Mariia KNIR, Candidate of Economic Sciences (PhD), Associate Professor

Structural unit of KNU, on the basis of which the project is implemented: Faculty of Economics

Project implementation period: 2024-2026

Consortium members:

  • Nord University (Norway), coordinator
  • Kozminski University (Poland)
  • International Foundation for Social Adaptation (Ukraine)
  • Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
  • National University “Lviv Polytechnic” LPNU (Ukraine)
  • West Ukrainian National University (Ukraine)
  • Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine)
  • Chernihiv Polytechnic National University (Ukraine)
  • South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University (Ukraine)
  • Vinnytsia National Technical University (Ukraine)

Brief description of the project:

The purpose of the project:

Increasing the resilience, readiness and responsiveness of Ukrainian higher education institutions through capacity building, increasing competences and sharing experiences.

The TURBO project will contribute to:

  1. Improving and building the capacity of Ukrainian higher education institutions to provide more flexible educational offers, relevant for the labor market and practice-oriented, in the field of business and management for faster integration into the EU educational space.
  2. Facilitating resettlement of IDPs in new local communities through retraining and social adaptation.
  3. Exchange of experience regarding retraining and social adaptation of IDPs in Ukraine and abroad.
  4. Improving the legal framework of the Ukrainian system of higher education through the recognition of microprogrammes as part of the practice of lifelong learning in universities.
  5. Cooperation between many actors to ensure social inclusion, increase student employment and quality of higher education during the social crisis.