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InnoCENS News

InnoCENS project continues at AUPET, Kazakhstan

October 15, 2020

On October 15, 2020, Almaty University of Power Engineering and Telecommunications (AUPET), an InnoCENS project partner, has organized a student innovation competition in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The event took place in connection with the celebration of Erasmus+ Day in Kazakhstan.

InnoCENS project coordinator, Dr Huaan Fan from KTH, joined this virtual event through a video message.

Project review by external experts
February 12, 2019

On February 13-17, 2019, INNOCENS project will be reviewed by external experts outside of the project consortium. The review will be coordinated with the national dissemination seminar in Yerevan.

The three external experts are:

Dr Leendert de Bell, Utrecht University of Applied Scienecs, The Netherlands
Dr Anna Dikukina, Russian University of Economics, Moscow
Professor Branko Bozic, University of Belgrade, Serbia.

National dissemination seminars in Yerevan and Tbilisi
February 12, 2019

To disseminate the project results and increase the project impact, national dissemination seminars will be organized in all 4 partner countries.

The dissemination seminar in Armenia will take place on February 14, 2019. See seminar programme here. This seminar is jointed organized with Erasmus HERITAG project.

Seminar in Georgia is scheduled to be held in Tbilisi on February 18, 2018. See seminar programme here.

Start of innovation business idea competition
January 31, 2019

To increase the awareness on and attract more students to entrepreneurship activities, the INNOCENS project consortium has started an innovation business idea competition.

Visit the competition web site

Opening of six university innovation centers
May, 2018

At the end of May, the INNOCENS project has reached a new milestone with the opening of six innovation centers in Armenia, Georgia and Kazakhstan.

Working meeting at NPUA, Yerevan
February 12, 2018

Today, the proejct coordinator visited National Polytechnical University of Armenia (NPUA) and had a working meeting with Prof. Ruben Aghgashyan (local coordinator of NPUA), Dr Varazdat Johannisyan (local coordinator for National University of Architecture and Construction) and Dr Amalya Mkhitaryan from NPUA.

At the meeting, participants discussed equipment procurement issue as well as the content and agenda of the forthcoming workshop to be held in Taraz, Kazakhstan.

Workshop on innovation competence assessment at Belarusian State University, Minsk
November 2017

This workshop was led by Dr Harri Lappalainen from Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) in Finland. Each partner university has sent 3 staff members to the workshop. Read more ......

Innovation pedagogy workshop in Turku, Finland
September 2017

Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) has organized this workshop in September 2017. Each partner university has sent 3 staff members to the workshop.

Study visits on national innovation systems in Sweden
June 2017

The study visits were organized by Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, with lectures and site visits to different Swedish institutions working on innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development.

Training of trainers on entrepreneurship in Valencia, Spain
March-April 2017

This training course was organized by Polytechnical University of valencia, Spain. 24 staff members who will be entrepreneruship trainers at 4 partner countries have attended this 2-weeks training course.

Kick-off meeting at National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia, Yerevan
December 2016

The kick-off meeting of the InnoCENS project took place on December 18-21, 2016 at National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia in Yerevan.