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ScanBalt Campus
– A European model case for transnational and transsectoral institution building in education, research and development.
Funding: Project part-financed by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund) within the BSR INTERREG III B Neighbourhood Programme
Summary
Research and education are major prerequisites for regional development and global competitiveness. That is especially true for life sciences/biotechnology.
However European state owned universities have been criticized for being unresponsive and rigid, unable to cluster for excellence and to be not open enough for collaboration with external actors like companies and hospitals. The European education and research systems are considered to be fragmented and isolated and with a disparity of regulatory systems. In addition Europe has a non-competitive level of funding of education, research and development when compared with our competitors.
To attack these problems ScanBalt Campus (SBC) will create a cross-sectoral network of education and R&D between universities, companies, hospitals/university hospitals and other actors – all sharing life sciences/biotechnology as a common base - in a meta-region encompassing the Nordic countries, the Baltic countries, Poland, North Germany and North western Russia. The brand name for this meta-region is ScanBalt BioRegion. The SBC will improve regional coordination and mobility, increase cross-disciplinarity, increase collaboration between sectors and create critical mass.
SBC will deliver a framework, acting as an umbrella and/or as a platform, in the whole field of knowledge formation from idea to market.
Objectives
Providing a bottom up trans-sectorial, trans-disciplinary concept for a sustainable SBC with participation of the main public and private actors inside education, research and development
- Preparing the establishment of ScanBalt Academy as a high level strategic advisor and body to ensure academic excellence in SBC, promote the use of shared curricula, undertake high level guest lecturing, select grants and rewards and review different SBC activities
- Creating examples of shared curricula between institutions in SBC with requirements of mobility
- Initiating transnational knowledge networks with education, research, tech transfer or development activities and integrating existing ones into SBC
- Establishing a media service in SBC aiming on asserting competences and generating interest among students, lectures, academic institutions, industries, public authorities, decision- and opinion makers
- Establishing an Internet based one-stop-entry to activities in SBC where courses, lectures, grants, projects, degrees, personal, positions can be posted
- Hosting 3 events plus a number of workshops and meetings.
- It is a specific aim to ensure activities beyond the project schedule by setting up public-private partnerships and create SBC as a permanent institution with lasting effects.
SBC sets out to be a European Model Case for increased knowledge-based competitiveness thereby bringing benefits to society.