1. Odessa National Polytechnic University WP4: Eco-system building for students' innovation and entrepreneurship Coimbra, March 03, 2016

2. Objective of WP Specific Project Objective Development of an infrastructure that enables the sustainability of a new ecosystem of university-company cooperation Indicators of progress Organization of a number of activities that could be run jointly with the companies. Primarily focus will be on the organization of a nationwide forum for IT-student innovation and entrepreneurship ideas How indicators will be measured Organization of the nationwide forum for IT students innovation and entrepreneurship

3. Ecosystem scheme Students Teachers IT companies

4. WP4.1: seminars for teachers

5. Outputs (tangible) and Outcomes (intangible) Training seminars for guidelines acceptance Indicators of progress Nationwide training seminars for acceptance and understanding of the improved guidelines produced in the WP3 How indicators will be measured Organization of the nationwide training seminars for acceptance and understanding of the improved guidelines produced

6. Some Figures 157 participants form 27 universities and 14 companies and MESU representative

7. Ecosystem scheme Students Teachers IT companies

8. WP4.2: contest of innovation start-up projects of IT-students

9. Outputs (tangible) and Outcomes (intangible) Awareness campaigns for students Indicators of progress Awareness campaigns for students. Running an innovation competition for students How indicators will be measured Effective awareness campaign using social media and other communication possibilities among Ukrainian IT students in order to increase the engagement for working with innovation and entrepreneurship

10. Started September 15, 2014

11. PR company

13. IT-Eureka! Ukraine in social networks Group in Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/717974014917368/ Group in ВКонтакте https://vk.com/iteureka Special group of NULP in Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/630378463743851 Special group of VNTU in ВКонтакте https://vk.com/iteu_vntu

14. Additional “Live” motivation presentations Students’ involvement as an additional channel for spreading information and as volunteers of Contest support

16. Some Figures 2 nominations: Innovation Idea Innovation Solution About 800 students from 21 universities, who applied 444 projects

17. Statistics on approved projects UniversityNumber of projects UniversityNumber of projects Classical Private University 1 N.Y. Zhukovsky National Aerospace University 4 Donetsk National University 1 Odesa A.S. Popov National Academy of Telecommunications 3 Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas 19 Odesa National Polytechnic University 19 Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics144 Precarpathian University 1 Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University 1 Sumy State University 1 Kryvyi Rih National University 5 Ternopil National Economic University 1 Lviv Polytechnic National University63 Vinnytsya National Technical University 24

18. Ecosystem scheme Students Teachers IT companies

19. WP4.3: 1 st Ukrainian Forum of IT Students’ Innovations

20. Outputs (tangible) and Outcomes (intangible) The IT student innovation forum in Ukraine Indicators of progress Organizing “The first student innovation forum in Ukraine” Create an advisory board based on a consortium of voluntary companies How indicators will be measured Organization of “The first student innovation forum in Ukraine”. Furthermore, as a part of these efforts an advisory board based on a consortium of voluntary companies will be created. This with the aim to achieve the sustainability of the ecosystem for enabling smooth communication among students and companies

21. Advisory board

22. GeeksLab: regional training for students teams (in framework of Odessa StartUp Day 29-11- 2014, 31-01-2015, 21-02-2015) Sigma Software, FlyElephant, Luxsoft, Sponge Digital&Design, DOU.UA, Greencubator, @Coppertino, Beetroot: speakers Sigma Software, WannaBiz: jury members Sigma Sofware, WannaBiz, Epam, FlyElephant, IT-Ukraine, Intersog: prizes

23. Some Figures 71 students 24 university teachers 15 representatives of IT field 1 representative of MES of Ukraine

24. Ecosystem scheme Students Teachers IT companies

25. WP4.4: methodology of University-Company network establishing

26. Outputs (tangible) and Outcomes (intangible) Company network for supporting students innovation Indicators of progress Involving companies (associations of companies) as a support network for support student / company contacts for good innovation How indicators will be measured A detailed methodology for involving companies (associations of companies) as a support network for support student / company / university contacts for good innovation and increased entrepreneurial potential

27. Target Groups Product IT-companies to develop own business to create spin-offs Outsourcing IT-companies to create a company loyalty to identify “not our worker” or get loyal worker social responsibility of business to develop IT-field attractiveness (strategic objective) IT business incubator

28. Methodology description Introduction Method of companies involvement to support innovation of IT-students Description of interaction with IT-companies Algorithms of collaboration building Application and implementation of marketing tools Recommended marketing tools Success stories

29. Sustainability of the Eco-system

30. Eco-system in Ivano-Frankivsk http://tempus.nung.edu.ua/uk/ecosystem

31. Eco-system in Lviv Agreement with Sigma Software on enhancement of “Student – University - Company” triangle IT-talks on enhancement of IT-students innovation in framework of conference ICTERI 2015 (in cooperation with DataArt) The seminar "Racing technology and a problem of choice", organized together with DataArt on 22 September Startup School University Edition at October- November, 2015 together with Lviv Startup School

32. Eco-system in Vinnitsa Agreement of cooperation with MGGP Aero Sp. z o.o. Progressive and innovative company well know in Poland and EU. Agreement of cooperation with Wehrli & Associates Inc. Innovative company develop and produce information systems and high accuracy measurement systems well know around the world. Web-design and computer graphics International competition Wehrli & Associates Inc.

33. Eco-system in Kharkiv IT-hub NURE https://www.facebook.com/ithub.nure?pnref=story Kharkiv Club of Start-ups http://startup.kharkiv.ua Conference Kharkiv Startup 2015 (2015-03-28) Participation in Rockstart Answers Kyiv #1 School of Entrepreneurship in KhNURE https://www.facebook.com/groups/itstartup.nure Center of IT regional development https://goo.gl/wNHvv6

34. Eco-system in Odessa Hackathon Get to Know Intel®Galileo 2 (Odessa, 2015-05-13 – 2015-06-26) Line of Workshop for IT-students: Your Way in IT (Sigma Software, 2015-05-20), The Recipe of Startup (Beetroot, 2015-05-27), Video-channel to your Customer (DolphineMedia, 2015-06-03) Odessa Innovation Week (2015-07-02 – 2015- 07-10) http://oiw.in.ua/ IT-Cluster Odessa (founded 2015-08-28)

35. Thank you for your attention! VIRA LIUBCHENKO vira.lyubchenko@gmail.com Coimbra, March 03, 2016