university–enterprise cooperation

The Economic Board is an advisory body of the University of Ljubljana’s
Rector and consists of 14 members – well established people of
local business community, most of them performing high powered
managerial jobs. The Economic Board advises on issues regarding
the future development of student curricula, provides an insight
into the future needs of the job market and provides counselling on
fund raising strategies.
The University of Ljubljana Career Centre (KC UL) is an internal
organisational unit. Its basic task is to conduct career counselling
and assistance to students enrolling and choosing study programs
at the University of Ljubljana. KC UL has strong connections with
the local business and provides market oriented services for employers,
such as job announcements and selecting appropriate candidates.
KC UL is oriented towards training students for a breakthrough entry
into the labour market and towards establishing relations with
commercial and other organisations that are potential employers.
A system of student tutors, career counselling, training, Life-long
learning and the international exchange of students and higher
education teachers is being established in a parallel process,
providing assistance in implementing, enlarging and enhancing the
Bologna process principles.
UL International Office is intergrated in the international
academic, scientific and research realm, both as an institution and
mostly through its teachers, researchers and students cooperation
and exchange programmes. The University of Ljubljana has an exchange
programme for students and teachers with 750 European universities
within the ERASMUS programme. It cooperates with 25 higher
educational institutions in the Southern and Eastern European region
and with over 100 universities through other bilateral agreements.
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D) In accordance with its strategy the UL especially supports the
development of interdisciplinary postgraduate and doctoral study
programmes whilst underlining the transfer of knowledge into
practice. Professional training is becoming a vital part of UL study
programmes. The aim of practical training is to integrate the knowledge
obtained at the university into practice and to provide authentic
practical situations where students can test their theoretical knowledge.
At each University of Ljubljana’s faculty there are technology centres
(parks) and institutes of applied research to provide support for
enterprises.
University Technology Transfer Office (TTO) was established in
2007 and is formed as an internal organizational unit with a specific
aim to put into place an internal invention disclosure procedure,
invention assessment and patent protection and to market the publicly
financed knowledge, generated at the University of Ljubljana. The
University of Ljubljana TTO also participated in two international
projects in the field of managing intellectual property. The project
„Promoting Business Potentials through Spin-Off’s in Slovenia” took
place from April 2008 to March 09 between our Flemish partners
Innotek vzw and Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen, the University
of Ljubljana Incubator and the University of Ljubljana. The second
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