SEERC research associate attends round table discussion on university-industry collaboration in Kosovo

Besart Hajrizi, research associate of the research centre of CITY College, the South East European Research Center (SEERC) and PhD candidate of the University of Sheffield attended to a round table discussion organised by the University of Mitrovica in Kosovo on 5th of April 2019. The round table discussion was organised by the Faculty of Economics where representatives from the government, university and business representatives discussed the role the relevance of higher education institutions towards the intensification of university – industry interaction in Kosovo and beyond. 

Besart Hajrizi has been showing some of his research results and declared that his proposing university-industry collaboration framework and conceptual frameworks for each stakeholder levels are going to facilitate significantly the interaction between these two key actors. Many speakers commented positively and were considering the framework as a promising tool for the South East European countries, and Kosovo specifically.

Therefore, such a study which is proposing a dynamic framework on university-industry collaboration conducted by SEERC's researcher is considered as a mechanism which significantly impacts on the unemployment rate and economic development of a transitional economy, such as Kosovo.