The Guidelines on Third Mission of Universities have been developed by the EU Erasmus+ Programme project “Universities – Communities: Strengthening Cooperation (UNICOM)”.
The Guidelines on Third Mission of Universities have been developed by the EU Erasmus+ Programme project “Universities – Communities: Strengthening Cooperation (UNICOM)”. This guide summarizes best practices from European and Ukrainian universities and offers higher education institutions a framework for community engagement and partnerships with various external stakeholder groups. The guidelines cover such key topics as: strategies for the development and methodologies for the implementation of third university mission; models of university-community engagement; recommendations for implementing the third university mission in interaction with communities and society at large.
Together with the Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, the authors of the Guidelines represent Ukrainian HEIs who are members of the UNICOM project consortium: Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian State University, Sumy National Agrarian University, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Bohdan Khmelnytsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University, Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs, and Vinnytsia National Medical University named after M.I. Pirogov.
The Guidelines on Third Mission of Universities in e-format can be downloaded here.
More information and materials on university – community engagement, on third university mission can be downloaded on UNICOM project website (Материали та додаткoва інформація – UNICOM).