Workshop 2 in Belarus

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Organized by BSEU

Time: 11.00-14.00

MINUTES
seminar "University - Enterprise: together to success"
16.04.2015

Chair: V.V. Sadovski
Secretary: S.K. Matalytskaya

Attended: 46 persons, including the representatives of the real sector of economy 19 persons, among them the representatives of light industry: head of the Department of coordination the development of the textile industry of "Bellegprom" Lapchenko I.S., director of the Center of Scientific Research in light industry Silich T.V., head of the Department of staff of "Orsha Linen Mill" Antonova I.D., head of the Department of "Orsha Linen Mill" Eytsenko I.B., Chief Engineer of "Alesya" Radyuk T.A., General Manager of "Trikotazhtorg" Kobza I.E., deputy director for commercial issues of "Slavyanka" Drobov Y.I., director of "Tekstiltorg" Fateev S.D., Director of "Galanteya" Nabdzorov A.A. (registration lists are attached).

The seminar program:

  1. Current state of co-operation of higher education and enterprises in the Republic of Belarus.
  2. Problems and prospects of cooperation of universities and business in the Republic of Belarus.
  3. Foreign experience of forms of interaction between higher education and businesses.
  4. Areas of BSEU cooperation with the real sector of the economy.
  5. The formula of success for business - staff development.
  6. Discussion of topical issues of interaction between universities and enterprises (roundtable, discussion).

11.00-11.15
Introductory statement about the opening of the seminar:
Sadovski V.V., first Vice-Chancellor, Chairman of Seminar, Project Coordinator 544390- TEMPUS -1-2013-1- GR - TEMPUS - JPHES "University and Industry for the modernization of textile manufacturing sector in Belarus (UNITE)". Sadovski V.V. outlined the purpose of the seminar: to launch a long-term cooperation for the implementation of joint projects of BSEU with organizations, business companies, enterprises of the real sector of the economy; discussion of the problems of interaction of universities and business in the Republic of Belarus, and made the report "Current state of co-operation of higher education and industry in the Republic of Belarus."

Speakers:

11.15-11.35
Morozevich O.A., Associate Professor of Marketing Department, on "Problems and prospects of interaction between universities and business in the Republic of Belarus" presented the results of studies to assess the interaction between enterprises and universities in the Republic of Belarus. The most important goals of this interaction are to train professionals with the necessary qualifications and retraining, as well as the need to establish a coordination unit responsible for the interaction with the real sector.

11.35-11.55
Golomazova E.S., doctorate student, on "International experience on the forms of interaction of higher education and enterprises" told about the system of interaction between universities and enterprises in Austria at the micro, meso and macro level, about the experience of interaction at the University of Applied Sciences of Mittweida (Germany ) and other EU countries.

11.55-12.20
Feingold VA, deputy head of the Centre for Educational Process Coordination, on "Areas of cooperation of the Belarus State Economic University with the real sector of the economy", marked the main directions of interaction and co-operation with the university and business entities in the following areas:
- to monitor of personnel demand on the labor market and to determine the most popular specialties in the current and in the future;
- determination of the requirements for competence, knowledge, skills and professional skills;
- participation of the leading practitioners in the educational process and in the state examination boards;
- joint development themes of projects, dissertations and master's theses;
- organization and conduct of students practice;
- order for training and employment of graduates, the organization of job fairs;
- additional education of post-graduates and training of highly qualified scientific personnel;
- conducting joint scientific research and applied research;
- organization of internships of faculty staff of the University in enterprises;
- vocational guidance in organizations;
- mutual information about events;
- satisfaction evaluation of customers (employers and graduates);
- creating and work of branches of departments in enterprises.

11.20-12.45
Primshits V.V., dean of faculty of retraining, on "The formula of success for business - staff development" has assessed the quality of cooperation between the university and the real economy on the training and retraining of economic staff. Further training specialists of economic profile is carried out on the basis of developed curricula, training programs agreed with customers (enterprises of the real sector of economy, small and medium businesses), orders of ministries and departments. Promising methods of organizing training may also include the development of flexible systems of interaction with companies through the organization of corporate universities (conclusion with the contracting of educational services of agreements on skills development from the middle to top management). The implementation of training programs allows the listener to determine their level of development, see the opportunities, prioritize and assess the prospects, develop and expand the perception in a particular economic area. Practiced at the faculty the algorithm of interaction allows to navigate the changes in the market, respond quickly to their needs and provide high-quality training in various topical areas of training and retraining of economic cadres.

13.00-14.00
Discussion of topical issues of interaction between universities and enterprises

Speakers:
Silich T.V., director of the Center of Scientific Research in light industry, introduced the problems and prospects of interaction between universities and enterprises of light industry, the feasibility of the operation in the BSEU of the department of interaction that will allow enterprises to operate in the "single window" for issues of recruitment, retraining and advanced training of specialists, also the feasibility of establishing business incubators at major universities.

Lapchenko I.S., head of the Department of coordination the development of the textile industry of "Bellegprom", about the appropriateness of involving practitioners of the real sector of the economy in the educational process, increasing financial incentives for enterprises representatives in their participation in the process of learning bachelor and master students, expanding practice of establishing branches of departments in light industry organizations that enable to influence on demand for training of specialists.

Antonova I.D., head of the Department of staff of "Orsha Linen Mill", spoke about the experience of cooperation in the organization with universities of the republic on the practice, employment and skills development. The speaker noted the positive experience of the University during the annual job fair, where students studying at their own expense and at the expense of budget can find a workplace. Job fair also solves the issue of student externship, as many employers willing before hiring graduates to assess their personal and professional skills, and it is easy to make during the practice.

Mudrik A.V., personnel director of "Alutech", shared his experience of cooperation with BSEU on organization and carrying out practice of students. He drew attention to the desirability of further attraction of private entities for the employment of students , as well as more flexible preparation (every 2 years) of curricula (with regard to the list of disciplines) and training programs, inviting representatives of the real economy in their design.

Chairman _________________                 V.V. Sadovski

Secretary _________________                  S.K. Matalytskaya