Project Title: University-enterprise cooperation via spin-off companies network (UNISON) 

Project reference: 573555-EPP-1-2016-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP 

Coordinating Institution: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela 

Institutional Coordinator at TSU: Department of Foreign Relations 

Project Duration: 36 months, 2016-2019 

Project Partners: 

University of Santiago De Compostela (Spain),  Fachhochschule des Mittelstands (Germany),  Instituto Politecnico de Coimbra (Portugal),  Bologna Club (Russia), Nizhnevartovsk State University (Russia), Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (Russia), Perm State University (Russia), Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics (Russia), Tbilisi State University (Georgia), Jakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University (Georgia), Yantai Academie of Agriculture Sciences (China), Yantai Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone (China), Ludong University (China).

The project is designed to define clearly the mechanisms of transfer and commercialization of knowledge and technologies, which are to be understandable unambiguously and executable within the reasonable time-frames. Realization of the project will enable to eliminate the existing difficulties and bottlenecks in cooperation with enterprises, to make the structure of the cooperation more clear and robust and to give new opportunities and open new work horizons.

UNISON’s specific objectives are:

1. Development of effective SOC-Model for university-enterprise   partnership
2. Piloting SOC-Model in HEIs of China, RF and Georgia
3. Creating of virtual international spin-off network    

Meeting of the UNISON Consortium Members at TSU

Workshop at Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra

Workshop on Spin-Offs in Berlin

Meeting at University of Santiago de Compostela

Meeting of UNISON project members from Tbilisi State University and Instituto Politecnico de Coimbra in Coimbra

Final meeting in China