EUINet: European UniversityIndustry Network Contract N: Ref. 116343 CP 1 2004 1 RO ERASMUS TNPP THE

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EUI-Net European University-Industry
Network Contract N Ref. 116343 CP 1 2004
1 RO ERASMUS TNPPTHE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY AND THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY
IN AN EVER-CHANGING SOCIETY Sergiu T.
Chiriacescu, Professor at Transilvania
UniversityEUI-Net Project coordinator
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Background

• the first universities closed cities
• due to the frequent changes in socio-economic
  life
• ? universities will have to be conceived of as
  being in a close interdependent relation with
  society and their degree of flexibility and
  adaptability to the social changes should
  considerably increase.

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Globalisation and internationalisation
tendencies in the contemporary world

• demographic evolution
• great discoveries in science and technology
• phenomenon of globalisation and
  internationalisation
• impact on higher education

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The modern Universities

• Although high rate of autonomy
• ? Many requirements form the stakeholders e.g.
  common strategies and compatible performance
  criteria

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University Society interdependence
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Society ? University

• the need of manpower according to
  social-professional categories, both at a
  national level and at a geographical area level
• the domains of major interest for the evolution
  of social economic life
• the graduates knowledge so that one could
  integrate relatively fast the potential
• the needs for professional reconversion
• the scientific and technological discoveries that
  may lead to the supply of new places of work.

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University ? Society

• professional performances of the graduates
• the contribution made by the university to
  reconvert the manpower
• the scientific achievements in fields of both
  local and general interest (environmental
  protection, creation of new enterprises etc.)
• the co-operation between the university and other
  social structures and mechanisms.

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HOW

• setting up curricula
• allowing the graduates to attend competitive
  professional performances (estimated, at least in
  the first phase, by means of real chances of
  getting a job)
• developing a continuing education system
• which could allow the graduate a migration
  from the professional domains that lack interest,
  to those that provide greater chances of getting
  a new placement
• developing scientific research,
• creating new laboratories in accordance
  with new technological and scientific
  achievements
• co-operation with society,
• in those fields joined with the educational
  system itself organisation of scientific
  meetings, participation in specialised surveys
  etc.

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Enterprises and society
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Society (the environment) S at tto

• the stability of the world economy
• the scientific and technological level
• The demand on internal and external markets
• The competition in the specific domain
• the sell prices of products
• The costs of raw materials, electrical and
  thermic energy
• The enterprise infrastructure costs and the
  capital costs
• The amortisation costs
• The existent wages on the labour market
• The internal and international transport costs
• The legislation concerning production and sale

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The information

• the volume and the rhythm of production
• the pre-established performances of product
• the estimated cost (for production and sale)
• the estimated profit
• the market of interest for that product
• the modernised or new infrastructure
• the structure and size of personnel
• the volume of wages

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The block (structure) of external optimisation

• specialised departments of the enterprise
• they compare information of this analysis
  constituting the input dimensions of the
  enterprise.
• It is used for establishing the enterprise
  organisational structure
• ?for all managerial activities, investments,
  personnel, production cost and the performances
  of the product.

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The Xps disturbances

• the new achievements in science and technology
• the changes on the free market
• the changes of the raw materials, energy,
  services and transport
• the local, regional and international
  disturbances of the social-economic life.

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The finite product

• Only occasionally the technical performances of
  the product are identical with the planned ones.
• The Department which compares the Xio and Xri
  information, has a major role in preserving the
  technical performances of the product.
• Confrontation on the free market confirms or
  doesnt confirm the technical and economic
  performances of the finite product.

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The University and the Enterprise logistic

• The continuous training
• The foundation of new firms near University
  campuses
• Co-operation between Universities and big
  international firms
• The interference of the trans-national
  enterprises within Universities