The mission of the University in the conditions of a multicultural region

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
K.V. Vodenko ◽  
◽  
S.S. Chernykh ◽  
E.V. Susimenko
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
High Potential ◽  
Information Networks ◽  
Third Mission ◽  
Interethnic Relations ◽  
The Third ◽  
Educational Trends ◽  
The University ◽  
Public Demand

The main goal of the presented article is to explicate the capabilities of a modern university to effectively pursue social policy in a multicultural region. The article examines the educational trends of recent years related to public demand and opportunities for the implementation of the third mission of the university. In this regard, attitudes towards communication, the practice of intellectual leisure and the active participation of universities in the creation of information networks were identified as the main educational trends. The article provides a description of socio-cultural markers that make it possible to speak with confidence about the criteria for identifying multicultural regions typical for Russia. The authors of the article draw attention to the need for universities to more actively participate in the formation of regional identities in order to ensure the cultural security of the country's residents. In conclusion, the article concludes that universities have a high potential to act as a resource for cultural stabilization and socialization in a multicultural region, that is, together with the state and civil society institutions, to implement programs aimed at harmonizing interethnic relations.

scholarly journals Spin-offs of the Third Mission and social innovation: the case study of the research–training–intervention project of Geodata Ltd

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-25
Author(s):  
Ezio Del Gottardo ◽  
Salvatore Patera
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Training Intervention ◽  
Third Mission ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation ◽  
The Third ◽  
First Results ◽  
The University ◽  
Start Ups

Abstract As a result of enactment of Law 297/1999, many Italian universities could improve the opportunities in applied research, activating spin-offs and start-ups in conformity with those regulations. This is a new challenge in the universities’ mission: universities are capable (and therefore they are asked) to generate not only new knowledge and competent professional profiles, but also to make a new effort in implementing the “third mission” for promoting social innovation. Considering this background, we present a research project - a training intervention named “Participatory culture, personal branding and organisational wellness” - by Espéro Pvt, a spin-off of the University of Salento, for Geodata Engineering Ltd., located in Turin, Italy. Presented below are the theoretical framework (learning organisation, empowerment evaluation and organisational wellness) and the methodology, as well as the first results.

Positive Effects of the Innovative Start-Up on University Spin-Offs

2018 ◽  
pp. 289-307
Author(s):  
Michela Piccarozzi ◽  
Cecilia Silvestri ◽  
Alessandra Stefanoni
Keyword(s):  
Third Mission ◽  
University Policy ◽  
Optimal Development ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Third ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The University ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
Regulatory Intervention

The third mission of the university has developed over the years, becoming a key aspect of university policy. The spin-offs are increasingly prosperous and innovative. Over the last decade University spin-offs in Italy have developed, but there are many difficulties that hinder the creation and success of such initiatives. A recent regulatory intervention, however, has created the conditions to overcome these difficulties by introducing the theme of innovative start-ups. Through the analysis of this issue we want to emphasize if these start-ups can contribute to the optimal development of spin-offs.

scholarly journals Humanitarization of University and Social Engagement Mission

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. 52-63
Author(s):  
O. V. Zinevich ◽  
T. A. Balmasova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Education ◽  
Third Mission ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Third ◽  
Good For ◽  
Mode Of Being ◽  
The University

The paper focuses on substantiating the institutional significance of the humanitarian component of University education and demonstrating opportunities for its implementation through non-profit activities of the University community. Transition to the new technological order accentuates the relevance of new personal and communicative competencies formed on the basis of education in humanities. Humanitarization is a priority task, which is reflected in the University education practices in the United States and European countries. The idea of upbringing a humanitarianly educated and humanitarianly oriented personality is declared in the discourses of the world leading Universities’ missions, whose activities are aimed at achieving public good for the society and its sustainable development. Russian documents and discussions on higher education emphasize the importance of humanitarization, but in practice, the humanitarian component in Russian universities is clearly being underestimated. In our opinion, this is due to the fact that humanitarization means mainly the strengthening of the cognitive element of University programs – the expansion of humanitarian specialties and humanitarian courses, but socially oriented University practices are not taken into account. Meanwhile, humanitarization includes both the translation of humanitarian knowledge and values – the strategic goals of the development of society, the state, the region, and the activity-based approbation of the knowledge gained in extra-curricular practices.Humanitarization of higher education is considered in the article from the standpoint of social and philosophical analysis, within the ontological aspect as a mode of being of an institutionally organized human activity on knowledge production and translation, which has closely been expressed in creating University 3.0, as well as in the idea and discourse of the third mission of University. The third mission sufficiently strengthens its emphasis on the anthropological and social function – orientation of University activities towards the genesis of a creative personality and the increased good for society. The goal of achieving the good is explicitly present in those social practices that are aimed at participating in the life of society without direct commercial gain and is implemented outside the University. The article examines the main types of socio-humanitarian practices in universities in Western countries.

scholarly journals Re-imaging the Eastern Cape Province: Sustainable Human Development from the Perspectives of the State, Civic Society, and the University

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayshree Thakrar ◽  
Gary Minkley
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Eastern Cape Province ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Third Mission ◽  
Planning Commission ◽  
Civic Society ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sustainable Human Development ◽  
The University

The Eastern Cape Planning Commission identifies human development as the central concern that the Provincial Development Plan should be premised on (Eastern Cape Planning Commission, 2012). This article proposes to critically examine the emerging (albeit implicit) philosophicalfoundation for sustainable human development, which we read as a combination of consciousness, capability, and rational organisation, and discusses these three interrelating aspects against selected stakeholders of sustainable human development: the State, civic society and the university. We determine that a re-imagination of the Eastern Cape Province would require serious consideration for the reshaping of the State, a rethinking of the roles and relationships with, and between, civic society, and a review of the third mission of the university.

scholarly journals The role of university botanic gardens in implementing the third mission

2021 ◽  
Vol 296 ◽  
pp. 03002
Author(s):  
Tatyana Chernysheva
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Third Mission ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
The Third ◽  
The University ◽  
Russian Universities

The paper reveals a new dimension of implementing the third mission of a university - through the activities rolled-out by Russian universities in their botanic gardens. For urban residents, botanic gardens, in addition to their main functions, are gradually becoming a place for integrating different population groups, from schoolchildren to pensioners. These public spaces conduct active educational policies aimed at many segments of a broader university community, taking into account the experience of regional environmental organizations and international Associations of Botanic Gardens. The author argues that the ecological vector is a priority for productive communication of a university with regional and global audiences at the site of its Botanic Garden, which becomes a measure of the university entering upon the way of sustainable development

scholarly journals “New Regionalization”: Modernization of Russian Universities and Experience of Germany

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 86-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. A. Balmasova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Third Mission ◽  
Regional Context ◽  
The Third ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Russian Universities

The importance of the supporting universities in each region is quite high, because the main purpose of creating them is to provide an efficient cooperation between the region and the system of higher education. Through the supporting universities it is possible to solve the most pressing problems facing not only regions but also the state as a whole. The interaction between higher education and regions is associated with the strengthening of the “third mission” of universities, the implementation of which makes university a key «player» in the economic and social development of a region and introduces significant changes in the university’s relations with its partners: industry, business, government, civil society institutions. The first section of the article focuses on the identification of the main parameters of the regional activities of Russian universities as active participants in the socio-economic development of region. The second section systematizes the experience of German universities on the implementation of the «third mission» in the regional context.

scholarly journals The presence of the undertaken social and economic role in the university's strategy-making

2012 ◽  
pp. 93-96
Author(s):  
Szabolcs Németh
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Internal Environment ◽  
Third Mission ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
The Third ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
The University

It is vital to examine the strategic plans and leadership insights of the university, the faculties, the departments and the institutions in the research of the „third mission” of the universities. Because of the undertaken social-economic role in the region it is indispensable to know the turbulently changing environment (hazards – opportunities), to map the competencies available in the university (strengths – weaknesses) and to recognize the relations between the external and internal environment. It is an important factor to define the strategic directions of the departments, examining them in direction dimension (pro-active – adaptive) and in role dimension (top-down – bottom-up). The main objective of this research is to recognize the formal and informal strategic visions of the institutes and departments in the Centre for Agricultural and Applied Economic Sciences of the University of Debrecen, and to examine how these visions are related to the university's role in the regional innovation system.

scholarly journals University in a Small City Environment: Campus Vibes

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-143
Author(s):  
Georgiy V. Korshunov ◽  
Inna O. Vedernikova ◽  
Sergey Yu. Dubikovsky
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
Third Mission ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Regional Environment ◽  
City Environment ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Status ◽  
The University

The article explores the phenomenon of strong nexus between the development strategies of small cities, claiming for the status of supporting regional cities, and universities located there. The university community and urban public are inclined to the positioning of such cities as “university cities”. The authors dwell on the role of campuses in the implementation of the “third mission” by universities. Particular consideration is given to the specific component of the third mission and, accordingly, the campus infrastructure for the development of local communities, urban and regional environments. A model of the regional environment monitoring system is described, which is based on the system of sociological surveys including five subsystems (questionnaire of employers, questionnaire of schoolchildren aimed at vocational guidance, questionnaire of parents, questionnaire of communities, and internal monitoring). The article also focuses on the forms of using campus facilities for the implementation of various events and social projects involving the local community and aimed at the development of the urban and regional environment in the following areas: consolidation, education and community assistance, social mobilization and public branding.

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