-= UniC - Finnish-Russian university cooperation for creating business competence =-
 
 
Site of the European Commission Higher Economic School e-mail Contacts The project is financed by European Union
UniC project
Activities in 2007
Activities in 2008
Project results
Contact info
  Main UniC results  



According to specificity, versatility of UniC goals, its results are of systematic nature.

1. Information and communication results

In the process of UniC project implementation more than … representatives of business from … companies of St Petersburg participated in it, which significantly exceeds the preliminary planned figures: 28 participants from 15 companies of St Petersburg. All the activities foreseen in the project contract were successfully implemented.

Complex trainings, consulting and workshops were held on the key issues of search for partners, organization of cooperation and practice of successful joint business by entrepreneurs of Russia and Finland.

The results of the abovementioned activities are the following:

Representatives of business:
  • received necessary information for organization and development of Russian-Finnish business (including the packages of informative hand-outs);

  • established business-contacts with business-partners from Finland;

  • got access to sources of consulting services on issues of Russian-Finnish cooperation, increase of efficiency and development of business.
Representatives of partner universities:
  • received a lot of information about work of Finnish universities and entrepreneurs for its further use in the processes of business-education and consulting;

  • carried out mutual exchange of best practices in organization and implementation of business-education.


2. Innovation results

  • multi-functional database of St Petersburg enterprises that are interested in establishment of business-contacts with Finnish entrepreneurs was formed (special questionnaires for the heads of enterprises were developed);

  • on the base of HES SPbSUEF we developed a new programme of regular joint business-training of Russian and Finnish entrepreneurs "Effective management";

  • information conditions for intensification of innovative processes were created (including while creation of joint enterprises and industrial parks in the territory of special economiс zones of St Petersburg and Leningrad regions);

  • effective directions of prospective university cooperation were defined.


3. Social and economic results

  • dozens of interested entrepreneurs from Russian side established business-contacts for further negotiations and organization of joint business;

  • carrying out of seminars provided conditions for overcoming cross-cultural barriers that often appears in Russia-Finnish relations;

  • negotiations were held on the topic of possible cooperation in a field of industrial and medical waste processing by representatives of Finnish company "PP Recycling" и "SKB Centre of innovative technologies" (St Petersburg). The initiative was approved by Administration of St Petersburg;

  • consulting services were provided for "Cooltech" company (St Petersburg) in the process of purchasing and using of production plant in Finland;

  • positive feedback was received by project participants in view of its content, utility, achieved results;

  • conditions were created for expansion of the scope of Russian-Finnish cooperation, growth of good circulation between countries, increase of the number of jobs in economies of both countries;

  • conditions were created for successful implementation of Russian-Finnish projects, which will further provide increase of profit received by entrepreneurs, growth of tax and customs proceeds to the budgets of both countries.


UniC results have nonsimultaneous nature: some of them are already achieved or will be achieved in the nearest future, another ones - in medium term period, the thirds ones - in strategic perspective.

On the whole, UniC project is oriented to achievement of medium term and strategiс results.


Last update: 18.03.10
The given material is published with support of the European Union.
The publication contents is a subject of responsibility HES of StPSUEF
and does not reflect the point of view of European Union.