IP Projects
HU Utrecht IP on ICT for Business Innovation
The project organised by HU Utrecht fills the need for gaining and (fast) dissemination of knowledge and experiences on the implementation of the innovative capability of information and communication technology (ICT) and the relevance of these developments for business innovation with organizations and enterprises all over Europe.
The project focuses on the strategic innovative capability of ICT for business innovation (beyond and not on technical innovations ICT has been offering SMEs).
Participating universities are from North-West, South, Central and Eastern Europe and will contribute to the creation of a sustainable learning community in the field of aligning ICT innovations to business strategy and processes towards the innovation of curricula and courses throughout Europe.
TAN members participating: UCN (Denmark)
VIKO Vilnius IP on CSR
Social Responsibility Strategies for Medium Sized Enterprises
The main objective of the project is to develop understanding of students and companies how to develop social responsibility of medium sized enterprises. The direct target group are business management students and their teachers. During IP days students will take part on lectures (social responsibility thematic) provided by teachers from various European countries and will prepare good practice guide for European business enterprises. Papers and a good practice guide will be prepared by students under coaching of teachers.
TAN members participating: UCN (Denmark)
VIKO Vilnius on Web Mining
With the ever-increasing demand for Web-enabled data mining, warehousing and management of knowledge, today's organization has to address the multiple facets of process, standards, technology, data mining, and warehousing management. This requires ICT approaches to provide an integrated interchange of quality metadata that enables individuals to access Web content with the most relevant, contemporary data, information, and knowledge that are both content-rich and practical for decision-making situations.
The curricula for Business-ICT students are mostly oriented to a commercial and technical environment. The future ICT professionals should be aware of these new opportunities of ICT in Web environment, with their specific needs and problems. The profession of an IT professional is changing from a technical expert to a more technical-functional expert.
The main objective of the IP is to confront students with the difficulties of aligning Business(functional) and ICT (technical) in the field of Web Mining.
TAN members participating: UCN (Denmark)
Application for 2011:
UCN Technology & Business: Green Economy
Participants will – through in-depth seminars on specific and limited regions - learn the positions of conventional economists and ecologists and be exposed to alternative concepts including incorporation of sustainability, diversity and valuation into human economies.
Participants will better understand how natural and human economies work, on how they incorporate non-commodity resources into value systems, and the ethical and moral positions taken by ecologists and economists.
Selected speakers will present their work on sustainability, biological diversity, valuation of non-commodity resources, and conventional views on the economy.
TAN members participating: HU Utrecht (The Netherlands), VIKO Vilnius (Lithuania), ESC Chambéry Savoie (France)