BERMAP - Business, Educational and Research 
Cooperation between Institutions of Northern Finland and Northwest Russia
                  The BERMAP 
                    project creates prerequisites for the development and expansion 
                    of business, education and research cooperation between the 
                    higher educational institutions and companies of Northern 
                    Finland and Northwest Russia. The direct aim of the project 
                    is to increase cooperation in practical level between University 
                    of Oulu, Oulu Polytechnic, Murmansk and Arkhangelsk State 
                    Technical Universities, and Petrozavodsk State University. 
                     
                  The project is divided 
                    into three sections – education, research and business. 
                     
                     
                    1) Educational and Research sectors 
                        - selecting and prioritizing the possible 
                    topics of educational and research  
                      
                      cooperation 
                      
                    - writing the educational and research cooperation plan 
                     
                    2) Business sector 
                        - market analysis in North-West Russia 
                    in the field of environmental  
                      
                      technology 
                        - knowledge and information transfer workshops 
                    for the companies of Barents region 
                        
                     
                    A joint plan of research and educational cooperation will 
                    be set up for and carried out by the region's universities, 
                    which extends to year 2010. A model of cooperation will be 
                    created for the environmental enterprises of the Barents region, 
                    which serves as an example for other branches as well. 
                    
                  
                  
                  Workshop 25.10.2006 
                    
                  
                  Cooperation proposals 
                  25.10.2006 
                  
                    
                  
                  Press-release (week 43/06) 
                  
                    
                  
                  Press-release (week 
                  12/07) 
                     
                                    Workshop 3.-4.5.2007 
                  
                    
                  
                  
                  Press-release (week 48/07) 
                  
                    
                  
                  Action 
                  plan (2Mb, pdf) 
                     
                     Partners: 
                  
                  Financers: 
State Provincial Office of Oulu, Department of Education 
                  EFRD 
                  Ministry for the 
                  Environment 
                    
                  Execution period: 
  
4/2005 - 12/2007 
                   
                   
                    Further information: 
 
                    Natalia Golubeva 
                  Niko 
                    Hänninen 
                   
                    
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