The seminar objectives: Raising the status of higher educational institutions in the field of leather and footwear, fur, textile, garment and printing industries, stimulating the integration of higher educational institutions with production.

Tasks:

• Discussion of current issues and practices of implementation, generalization and dissemination
  of experience in innovative activities of universities.
• Creation of information space for effective interaction of universities and industrial enterprises
• Promoting the development of creative potential, creation of organizational and conditions for innovation, research and project activities, for the initiative, scientific and methodological
  interests.
• Development of scientific potential of students, undergraduates, graduate students and young scientists.

Presentations were made by: Nikolaos Bilalis, Greece “REILEAP Project”, Dmitry Shalbuev, Russian Federation “Training students for the leather industry of Russian Federation”, Aura Mihai, Romania “Erasmus+ Projects at TUIASI”, Dimos Papakonstantinou, Greece “Erasmus+ Capacity Building Projects”, Mete Mutlu and Hasan Ozgunay, Turkey “Erasmus+ The Capacity Building Process”.

Work packages (WP) were also discussed: WP1 - Project status and future actions; WP2 – Organization of Work / Proposal for Course Development; WP3 - Status of equipment acquisition; WP4 - Quality Strategy Development; WP5 – Dissemination Strategy Development.

The next offline meeting will take place at Ege University, Turkey.