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SMART PROJECT OF ERASMUS+ PROGRAMME
Project “Fostering university-enterprise cooperation and entrepreneurship of students via SMART Caffes/SMART” started its implementation in October 2017
Project coordinator: Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki (Greece)
Belarusian participants: Belarusian Trade and Economics University of Consumer Cooperatives, Minsk Innovation University , Belarusian Innovative Foundation
Partner countries: Armenia (3), Belarus (3), Voldova (4)
EU countries: Greece, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Bulgaria
Project period – 2017-2020.
Official website of the project: https://www.smartcaffe.eu/
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GENERAL OBJECTIVE of the project is to advance employment and self-employment potential of graduates from EaPC and enhance innovativeness of companies by fostering students’ entrepreneurship, creation of business start-ups and open innovation approach in collaboration between universities and enterprises. The project will achieve this by developing a co-creative, motivating and supportive environment - SMART Caffes network which will encourage and foster students’ entrepreneurial intent and at the same time support open innovation approach.
The following project products are expected to be sustainable long after the end of the EU funding:
 7 SMART Caffes(SCs) and their network; ;
4 new trainings elaborated for teaching stuff of SCs;
8 new trainings elaborated for students enrolled in SCs;
IT multifunctional platform SMART_CHANNEL;
Book: from Idea to running business;
Market for Ideas;
Running EaPC students’ start up competition and annual regional conference;
Revised curricula.
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NEWS
March 1, 2018 a videoconference of SMART project partners took place. Belarusian partners and coordinator of the project "Agrarian University of Moldova" participated in the videoconference.
Partners discussed the implementation plan for the first year of the project, as well as, actual issues of the project implementation.
February 13-16, 2018 a kick-off meeting of partners of the project “Fostering university-enterprise cooperation and entrepreneurship of students via SMART Caffes/SMART” of ERASMUS+ programme was held on the basis of Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki (Greece) .
During the meeting partners discussed issues related to preparation of the work plan for the first year of project implementation, and organized a workshop on development of Smart Cafes.
Representatives of Belarusian Trade and Economics University of Consumer Cooperatives took part in the kick-off meeting of project partners distantly.