The main PICASP objectives are connected to the enforcment of University-Enterprise Cooperation trough the involvment of the Business Community and particularly SMEs Entrepreneurs and Managers in the development and diffusion of new teaching methodologies including Practice Enterprise and MOOCs; Developing courses in Entrepreneurship and SME Management; Enhancing the exchanging of best practices with EU partners through mobility of academic and technical staff; Enforcing stakeholders’ involvement in curriculum development and graduates placement; Establishing Standards and Providing Quality assurance in didactics and sustainability.The network of universities in this project will support the implementation of Pilot Courses in HEI Project Partners verifying the sustainability and the possibilities for implementation in other partner countries. This will be positive not only in the field of Economic Activities but more generally among the partners how to design higher education, according to UE Standards. Furthermore, it will have a positive impact in the perspectives, for the Caspian Area, trigged by policies to implement Sustainable Development related to the Silky Road.

The project intends to develop and modernize formal and informal education curriculum in professional development and training of teachers in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Russia with the aim of empowering target groups with the deficient competences in the field of leadership. The project’s outcomes include a multidisciplinary module program for 2nd cycle of formal education which combines pedagogical, sociological, psychological, law, economics and management elements and professional development program “Teachers as Leaders”. Both programs will make the process of training and professional development of teachers for leadership more effective, aimed at maximizing interaction of educators in a community, at making their behavior in a professional environment innovative. One more project outcome is Education Centre for Leadership serving as a platform for the design, development and promotion of socially significant ideas of the local community, a model for the interaction and e-networking of active representatives of the local community.