Collaborative Training Centre
Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Vesna Mandić
Address: Faculty of Engineering, Sestre Janjić 6, 34000 Kragujevac, building A, room AP-31
Tel: +381 (0) 34-501-201
Fax: +381 (0) 34-501-901
E-mail: mandic@kg.ac.rs , ctc@kg.ac.rs
www.ctc.kg.ac.rs
Collaborative Training Centre in Kragujevac is one of the centres from the network of Collaborative Training Centres established in the Western Balkans Region within Tempus project WBC-VMnet (www.wbc-vmnet.kg.ac.rs), on 10th June 2010, as organizational unit of the University of Kragujevac. Taking into account the significance and the necessity of the cooperation of the University with enterprises, the main strategic aim of the Centre is to coordinate and improve this cooperation, to facilitate knowledge and technology transfer and to provide opportunities to students and graduates to gain practical knowledge. The mission of the Centres is to develop efficient and effective mechanisms for cooperation between the University and enterprises, through project realization, vocational trainings for enterprises and unemployed and industrial fellowship programmes. The Centre coordinates the network of CTC centres in the WBC region (Kragujevac, Banja Luka, Podgorica, Rijeka), VMNet network with more than 1400 members and VRPM network of 74 researchers from 20 countries. Additionally, together with regional and EU partners, it participated in the development and implementation of new WBC Regional Model of University – Enterprise Cooperation, which suggests seven strategic measures:
1. Science and Technology Parks,
2. WBC regional industrial clusters,
3. Consortiums of University and enterprises for joint EU projects,
4. Cooperative training centres,
5. Open innovation networks,
6. Practical placement programme,
7. Industrial fellowship programme.