Grantholder

 NewcastleUniversity of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

The University of Newcastle upon Tyne is a popular UK university with an excellent pedigree in research and teaching and is closely integrated into the economic, cultural and social life of the North East of England. Research income from grants and contracts reached £81,600,000 in the year 2008-2009. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise the University entered 38 subject areas, spanning medicine, the sciences, engineering, humanities and the arts. A high proportion of research was ranked in the top two categories of 4* and 3″. The University’s teaching record across all disciplines is outstanding, and the University was chosen by The Sunday Times newspaper as its University of the Year 2000-01. The student population was 18,878 in 2008-09, with 4,899 staff and an annual income of more than £342m. More than 2,500 overseas students choose to study at Newcastle, from over 100 countries.

National coordinator:

National Aerospace University “KhAI”, Ukraine 

With 11,000 students and 2,700 academic staff. KhAI is one of the leading institutions of higher education in Ukraine for the naming of specialists for the aircraft and aerospace industry in Ukraine and beyond. KhAI has branches in Mexico. Germany, Finland and China and cooperates with first rate national and foreign manufacturers of aircraft engineering: «ANTONOV», «BOEING», -AIRBUS- and participates in the international programs «ALPHA« and »SEALAUNCH». In addition, KhAI is one of the largest technical universities of Eastern Ukraine.
The Department of Computer Systems and Networks (CSN) carries out intensive research and methodical activities aimed at increasing the quality of engineering studies. The focus of research activities is on the development of methods, techniques, instrumental systems and tools for assessment, modeling, designing and expertise of dependable software, computer systems and networks for aerospace, atomic energy, medical and business-critical applications.

Consortia partners:

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

KTH is the largest technical university in Sweden. KTH is actively executing major EU cooperation programmes such as FP7, Lifelong Learning, Tempus, Erasmus-Mundus, Asia-Link and Leonardo da Vinci. Several national and international competence centres and networks of excellence are located at KTH.
KTH is involved as a leading party in two of three new Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KIC) created within European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) aiming at a more in-depth integration of research, education and innovation.
KTH Executive School develops the skills of executives in business management and strategic leadership through executive programs. At the moment KTH Executive School has four different programs – Industrial Management, Infra Service Management, Consultancy Management and Nordic Growth Management – each program designed for companies with common business logic.

UC University of Coimbra, Portugal

The University of Coimbra (UC) is a reference in higher education and R&D in Portugal, due to the quality of the courses taught at its eight colleges and to the advances achieved in pure and applied research in various scientific domains and on technology related areas. UC pursues a policy of continuous improvement in several areas, ensuring high standards of teaching and research, as well as being an active participant in the development of the corporate world. The continuous technological development promoted by UCS different R&D units, addresses the challenges involved in the design, operation and regulation of tech no log ies, bringing together teachers from different scientific disciplines with a long experience in teaching, research, technology transfer and consultancy in different areas in the context of technology.

Critiware Critiware, Italy

CRITIWARE is a ICT company providing services and tools to support the engineering of critical computer systems. It is an academic spin-off of the Naples Federico II, founded by members of the MobiLab research group (www.mobilab.unina.it). CRITIWARE provides services and products to support design, V&V, and maintenance of critical computer systems, such as avionic and naval transportation, power and water supply infrastructures, automobile and enviroment monitoring. These systems are extremely complex because of the number of components and interactions among them, which raise new dependability challenges. CRITIWARE proposes highly innovative solutions for the development of critical computer systems. Its solutions are baked up by 10-year research experience of its members matured in the context of several industrial projects involving world-leading companies such as. SELEX-SI, Ansaldo Bieda. Critical Software, Ericsson, NEC, Strago and System Management.

Inercia DigitalIntercia Digital, Spain

Inercia Digital S.L. is a young company, established in 2010 in Andalucfa (Spain) which provides specialization e-learning on e-business for SMEs. Our core technology for eleaming services includes:

  1. Learning Platforms compatible with international standards in eLearning for SMEs.
  2. Adaptive contents and digital learning objects editors for SMEs on ebusiness.
  3. Social Learning and Mobile Learning environments.
  4. Development, integration and interaction among web oriented LMS (Learning Management System) educational platforms.

 

ONPU Odessa National Polytechnic University, Ukraine

ONPU founded in 1918 has generated a lot engineering universities and academies of the South of Ukraine keeping the base positioning this region. 20000 of students, graduate employees, post-graduate students are trained here, the process being effected by personnel numbering 2000 lecturers, researchers and practical engineers. There are 57 academicians of NASU, more than 120 Prof and Doctors of sciences, almost 450 senior lecturers, Ph.D.

Chernihiv NTU_ENG Chernihiv National Technological University, Ukraine

CSInstitute of Cybernetics, National Academy of Science of UkraineTU is the chief center of technical education and research in the Chernihiv region. It consists of 7 faculties and 32 departments that provide on Bachelor and Master levels. The university has over 7000 students. 500 teachers including 300 professors and PhD associate professors. The training of highly qualified staff is realized through postgraduate and doctoral courses in 18 scientific specialties. E-learning training is supported by modern equipments and specific telecommunication devices. CSTU is the recognized leader in the developing the advanced electronic and IT systems. It has in process 14 large projects with enterprises and organizations and a more then 50 projects are completed. CSTU participates in numerous international collaborative research projects in mechanical, electronic and informational fields with National Science Academy, academic and industrial partners from Russia. Germany, UK, Sweden, Netherlands. Spain, Hungary and Poland. In 2011 the university was certi.

PMBSSU Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University, Ukraine

Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University (PMBSSU) is a public institution in Ukraine, and was found in 19%. Number of academic staff is about 350. there are around BA and MA 4 000 students and about PhD 100 students. Number of faculties: 6; number of institutions: 4; number of departments: 31; number of disciplines: more than 800. University research centers are: Mykolaiv Political Research Centre of the Ukrainian National Academy of Science (NAS); Centre of System Research and Development of NAS; Regional Centre of Historical Institute of NAS; Southern Branch of Ecological Research Centre: Regional Centre of Association “Alliance Frances”: the German Language Teaching & Learning Center; Center of European Studies. PMBSSU has programs of cooperation with European institutions: Barcelona University, Stoid/Haugesund University College, Ruhr University Bochum. University of Saarland. University of Navarra, Rzeszow University, Wroclaw University. Royal Academy of Economic and Financial S.

Chernivtsi NU Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine

Chernivtsi National University – one of the leading higher educational institutions in Ukraine, was founded on the 4-th of October. 1875. By decision of Session of Council of European University Association, held in Brussels on January 15th, 2009, Yuri Fedkovich Chernivtsi National University was granted a full individual membership in European University Association. CHNU has over 15,000 students, 1.500 faculty and staff. Today. CHNU provides training foi students in 80specialties in 16 faculties. CHNU participates in international collaborative research projects with industry partners in many countries of Europe.

icnas-of-ua Institute of Cybernetics, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Ukraine

Institute of Cybernetics is leading research organization in Ukraine providing science researching in the field of computer science. Founded in 1957. InCYB has over 400 researchers, and 300 employees. 59 researchers have academic titles of Professors and scientific Dr.Sc. degrees. Over 160 researchers have academic titles of Senior scientific researchers and scientific PhD degrees. 17 researchers are full member of National Academy of Science of Ukraine. Today InCYB participates in numerous research projects in informatics and computer designing areas with academic and industrial partners in 25 departments. Today, main areas of research activities of Department of Microprocessor Devices are designing the FPGA-based reconfigurable computer systems and problem-oriented processors. Founded in 1975, Department of Microprocessor Devices has over 20 researchers.

Ministry_of_Education_and_Science_of_Ukraine Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine

Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine is the central body of the government executive power performing the management in the area of education. The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine:
– Develops the program of the development of education, state standards;
– Participates in the determination of the state policy in the area of education, science and professional training of specialists;
– Ensures the connection with educational institutions, government authorities of other countries, with respect to issues falling within its competence;
– Makes accreditation of higher and vocational educational institutes, issues licenses and certificates to them.