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background) to become successful entrepreneurs.
Also, there have been presented the preliminary
architecture of the virtual center for entrepre-
neurship development. The research results and
consequences were focused on: (a) Adjustments
of the university curricula; (b) Identification and
description of those activities that can be carried
out by universities in the field of knowledge trans-
fer and that can be considered for entrepreneur-
ship education, too (especially for the technical
education); (c) The CE@ANPART virtual center
design as an answer to the market demand and
with the support of an university partnership for
research (Draghici, Izvercianu & Draghici, 2009).
Future researches will be developed for building
the virtual center for competencies/expertise
evaluation CE@ANPART and test all the func-
tionalities with real clients - entrepreneurs (the
information system development and test). Some
comparative researches will identify the correla-
tions and differences of knowledge management
in engineering education institutions in Romania
(under the UNIKM project).
be able to create a commercial interest for what
they are doing (ResEUr, 2009).
This new project results envisaged are a skill
set which clearly describes the skills/competen-
cies required for a researcher to turn his ideas into
marketable products, and thus to be able to create
a sustainable enterprise. For all the skill elements
training material will be provided in several lan-
guages and in an e-learning environment. A pool
of test questions will be defined, which provides
the basis for the certification of students. All these
elements will be verified with a number of students
in the context of initial trainings and certifica-
tions. The partners involved in this project are:
EMIRAcle, European Manufacturing and Innova-
tion Research Association a cluster leading excel-
lence - association established after the Belgian
law in 2008 (www.emiracle.eu, the promoter and
coordinator of the project); Politehnica University
of Timisoara, Romania; Institute Polytechnique
de Grenoble, France; International Software
Consulting Network Ltd. (ISCN) Wicklow,
Ireland; proHUMAN Cooperation and Business
Management Ltd. Maribor, Slovenia and Skills
International GmbH Grossklein, Austria;
By its very composition, the proposed consor-
tium will be able to have a significant impact on
a European level. To give examples, the applicant
organization EMIRAcle unites a large pool of
leading universities, who are all very active in
leading-edge research as well as in organizing
influential and recognized international confer-
ences. Members are able to pre-select researchers
based on a long-term observation of their works.
ISCN as coordinator of the EuroSPI initiative
runs a PhD selection program, where a number
of international PhD students are assessed based
on the innovation potential of their contributions
to the topic of software and innovation process
improvement. Grenoble INP has established a
“
House of Entrepreneurship
”, which is dedicated
to mobilize researchers to turn their research results
into successful innovations on the market. UPT has
gained a lot of experience in the entrepreneurship
future reseArches
Also, future researches will be developed at the
European level, in the context of a Lifelong Learn-
ing Programme, Leonardo da Vinci (503021-LLP-
1-2009-1-BE-LEONARDO-LMP): “
Certified EU
Researcher - Entrepreneur
”, also call by acronym
ResEUr. The motivation for this project proposal
lies in the lack of a European-wide valid set of
training modules and certification of entrepre-
neurial skills of young academic people. Europe
is far from exploiting its potential of successful
entrepreneurship in higher education, because
it often fails to mobilize the right innovative re-
sources and young brains. The proposed project
aims at delivering to innovative researchers the
qualification to determine if their work and/or
their ideas have a market potential, as well as to
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