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Title: Regional Collaboration between Companies and the University


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Regional Collaboration between Companies and
the University
  • Catania 20 April 2007
  • Toril Eikaas Eide, Centre for Continuing
    Education (SEVU)

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  • Experience from Norwegian pilot projects aiming
    at - mutual development,
  • - quality enhancement, and
  • - innovation
  • through integration of research and
  • professional development / continuing education

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  • Co-operated by two Norwegian universities
  • The Norwegian University for Life Sciences
    (UMB)
  • The University of Bergen (UiB)
  • Managed by our centres for continuing
    education,(SEVU)

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The city of Bergen
  • gateway to the fjords
  • Norways continental city
  • 250 000

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The city of Bergen brief history
  • Founded in 1070
  • Norways capital until 1299
  • thriving international port
  • research traditions
  • Bergen International Festival
  • 2000 European City of Culture

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The city of Bergen historical figures
  • Ibsen
  • Grieg
  • Bull
  • Nansen
  • Bjerknes
  • Rokkan

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The city of Bergen culture and commerce
  • the sea
  • international
  • education
  • infrastructure

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The city of Bergen education and research
  • 3 university level institutions
  • 20 research centres
  • 25 000 students
  • 5 000 employees

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The University of Bergen
  • Young university (1946)
  • In the city of Bergen.
  • 16.000 students
  • 3.000 faculty and staff
  • Faculties
  • Variety and breadth.
  • Seven faculties
  • 90 different specialised departments, centres and
    institutes
  • Centres Increasing number of multi-disciplinary
    research centres, projects and units

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Centre for Continuing Education (SEVU)
  • Since 1990 UiBs
  • main operating unit in the field of continuing
    education (CE)
  • responsible unit as to building up and
    systemizing
  • the UiB CE/LLL activity
  • in principle Channel in Channel out
  • with regard to external actors / target groups
  • Still much direct contact between external actors
    and internal contents deliverers.

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Centre for Continuing Education
  • SEVU shall
  • take initiatives
  • be active in developing new courses based on
    recent developments in ICT
  • focus on other target groups than ordinary
    students,
  • in particular prioritize courses relevant to the
    work place.
  • Relevant to all courses with a student fee /
  • not free of charge.

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Project background, motivation challenges
  • Limited scale of LLL and University Continuing
    Education (UCE) activity in companies
  • Limited knowledge in university about real life
    and important challenges in companies
  • . and about their need for competence
    development
  • Little direct feedback from companies about their
    problems and demands for knowledge

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Background, motivation challenges (cont.)
  • Little experience in company and university
    from applying recent research
    results


    directly/quickly in professional
    development in companies
  • And/or
  • University not sufficiently following up /
    implementing results of research when
    collaborating with companies (criticism in
    customers survey)
  • Collaboration fragmented between university and
    companies not integrated or functioning as a
    whole

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How have you tried to meet such challenges?
  • Approaches?
  • Models?
  • Projects?
  • Networks?
  • Partners?
  • Collaboration?
  • Marketing?
  • Communication?

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Overall project quality aim
  • To stimulate increased innovation
  • through a more wholistic and long-term
    collaboration in research and professional
    development
  • between university and companies

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Project aim (cont.)
  • Stimulate learning and competence development
  • through
  • collaboration
  • exchange of experience
  • mutual knowledge construction
  • innovation quality improvement
    in
  • Company
  • Network of companies,
  • University,
  • Region

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Innovation / quality enhancement seen as
  • New products
  • New / changed processes, working methods
  • Models/methods of organising work and working
    place in company / university
  • Pedagogical development

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Core project feature / model
  • Running continuing education activities /
    professional development 
  • in networks of regional companies
  • combined with and/or integrated in research or
    RD projects
  • Supported by The Research Council of Norway

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Four pilot projects two each
  • Roses and cucumber (UMB)
  • Cod health in fry and brood fish production (UiB)
  • Operational meteorology (UiB)
  • wawe theory and wave forecasting
  • extreme events (forecasting of wind/precipitation)
  • Competence development in social and cultural
    entrepreneurship in Aurland (UMB)

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Practical approach Integrating professional
development activity in RD collaboration
  • At the beginning of the project
  • strengthen the users competence basis to
    participate actively in the project
  • In the course of the project
  • establish meeting places for systematic and
    mutual learning and exchange of experience
  • Towards the end of the project
  • tailor learning activities for groups of
    employees to support practical implementation of
    new knowledge

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SEVUs role
  • Project leader
  • Process leader and facilitator
  • Pedagogical coach and adviser
  • Evaluator

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Our model for mutual and double loop learning
Theory new research problems
COMMON LEARNING PLACE
Research results
Theory-based
Research institute
Company
Increased competence
Increased competence
KNOWLEDGE
Experience-based
innovation
Practice new problems
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Four pilot projects - two each
  • Roses and Cucumber
  • Cod health in production of
  • Extreme weather (Oceanography

24
  • What did we do and how?
  • Our model for our practical approach

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Pilot project aims
  • Establish arenas for wholistic and long-range RD
    collaboration between companies and university
  • Mutual competence development between companies
    and university through
  • Dialogue
  • Mutual exchange of practical and theoretical
    knowledge and experience
  • Joint planning, development, running and
    evaluation of
  • Concrete learning activities/courses
  • Research projects

26
Pedagogical approach
  • Learner based
  • Problem based work place / company
  • Experience based
  • Theory based

27
Results and outcome - quality enhancement
  • More traditional outcome
  • Courses
  • Learning materials
  • Meetings
  • Company representatives report
  • Increased knowledge
  • More focus on and real change of working
    practices
  • Improved and more frequent contact and dialogue
    with university
  • Easier to contact university
  • Increased interest in research initiatives and
    results

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Results and outcome - quality enhancement (cont.)
  • University representatives / faculty report
    (cont.)
  • Easier to contact companies
  • Increased knowledge about working practices and
    challenges in companies
  • Improved and more frequent contact and dialogue
    with companies
  • New experience with applying problem based
    learning (PBL) in work place / companies
  • Feasible with immediate integration of research
    results
  • in courses
  • - and also quickly let practical experience in
    companies influence research

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Results and outcome - quality enhancement (cont.)
  • University representatives / faculty report
    (cont.)
  • Permanent areas for dialogue with companies
  • Better access to more and interesting research
    materials
  • Input from companies about possible / necessary
    research fields
  • Establishing (and funding) more research projects

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Results and outcome - quality enhancement (cont.)
  • Centre for continuing education (SEVU)
  • Improved and more frequent contact between SEVU
    and research groups
  • - which has stimulated and facilitated more
    courses and professional development initiatives
  • New experience with applying problem based
    learning (PBL) in work place / companies
  • Experience with and learning from trying out
  • new roles and tasks

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Results and outcome - quality enhancement (cont.)
  • Centre for continuing education (SEVU)
  • Improved competency in managing and facilitating
    learning processes - and coaching faculty
  • Promotion of SEVUs competency, functions and
    tasks to new users
  • Companies (external)
  • Faculty and departments at the university
    (internal)
  • Particularly positive feedback about the
    usefulness
  • of our function/role as process leaders!

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  • Thank you
  • for your attention!
  • ?

34
Questions?Comments?Other input?Similar
projects?Your experience?
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MODEL FOR COLLABORATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE
IN RD PROJECTS
  • EXPERIMENTS
  • In production halls
  • In laboratories

Dialogue between researchers and collaborators
(ie company managers and supervisors)
representing Theory-based and Experience-based
knowledge
PLANNING New experiments? New research
problems? New action in the company?
PRELIMINARY RESULTS
INTERPRETATION ANALYSIS
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS
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