19 October «KROK» University hosted a seminar «Creation and Development of Entrepreneurs Alumni Network», where the representatives from Ukraine and The Netherlands. More than 50 universities of Ukraine indicated their interest to participate in the project and registered for the seminar. Lecturers, students and alumni of the partner universities were also involved. The seminar was organized by Alumni Association and International Office of «KROK» University.
Taras Finikov (the President of International Foundation for Education Policy Research, co-founder of «KROK» University) and Svitlana Shytikova (director of the National Erasmus + office in Ukraine) welcomed the participants. The achievements, experience and best practices of the first year of project implementation relating to the creation of alumni entrepreneurs associations and establishing cooperation between graduates and universities were presented during the seminar. The issues of creation and registration of associations, ways and benefits of interaction with alumni were discussed. The presented materials invoked great interest and hot discussion among the participants. Michael Tuguntke (EANET Project Manager) trainer and senior lecturer of Hogeschool van Amsterdam and Martin Haring (director of Amsterdam Centre for Entrepreneurship) presented HvA experience. Svitlana Zaripova (Head of «KROK» University Alumni Association) initiated the creation of the expert platform ALUMNI-expert, which will aim to form and develop the culture and tradition of effective cooperation between alumni and HEIs and the dissemination of successful practices in Ukraine.
During Ukrainian national seminar the video conference with Nino Enukidze from Ilia State University was envisaged, but unfortunately due to some technical problems we couldn`t connect. Nino kindly offered the presentation of EANET centre. We appreciate Nino for her dedication to Ukrainian national seminar!
We are glad that Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and Erasmus + office were involved in the event implementation – they sent invitation to participate in the seminar to Ukrainian HEIs, provided informational support via website and social networks.
We kindly invite you to learn the materials, that were presented by the project partners:
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