Enhancing University Research and Entrepreneurial Capacity (EURECA)

Length:

Multi-year

Funded By:

The US-Russia Foundation for Economic Advancement and the Rule of Law (USRF)

The Enhancing University Research and Entrepreneurial Capacity (EURECA) is a multi-year Russian national research universities' (NRUs) and U.S. research universities' partnership-based program, aimed to build innovation ecosystem and expand entrepreneurial and technology transfer capacities at NRUs. The goal is to help NRUs learn how to commercialize the results of university research, which will allow for the development of new products and services. EURECA is funded by the US-Russia Foundation for Economic Advancement and the Rule of Law (USRF) at 3.34 million, with obligations of 3.1 million from Russia for a two-year pilot. It is managed by American Councils for International Education in the US and New Eurasia Foundation (FNE) in Russia. Three partnerships have been formed for the two-year pilot activities grouped into four modules: Nizhny Novgorod State University (UNN) - University of Maryland at College Park in MD (UMCP) partnership is creating the UNN Center for Regional and International Cooperation. UNN-Purdue University partnership is working on Technology Transfer and Center for Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship. St. Petersburg Institute of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO) - University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) partnership is implementing two modules: Enhancing ITMO Worldwide Innovative capacity (EWIC) and Cross-Atlantic Innovation Bridge (CAIB). Program activities are focused on building tech-transfer operations at universities to serve and integrate students and faculty and include: building tech-transfer operations on campus, developing entrepreneurship programs, building research-industry partnerships among others. EURECA aims to replicate its results to benefit all 29 Russian NRUs.

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