The Project "Reinventing displaced universities: enhancing competitiveness, serving communities" is aimed at raising attractiveness and competitiveness of two displaced universities (DUs’) by enhancing their institutional capability, good governance, teaching and learning excellence and internationalization. It will be delivered by the Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine in partnership with the British Council in Ukraine and two co-applicant universities: Mariupol State University and Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian University.
The Project foresees boosting inter-university cooperation and enhancing links between co-applicant Universities and local communities.

1. To enhance displaced partner universities’ infrastructure for delivery of quality education and dynamic community engagement.
2. To build capacity of partner universities enabling their leadership, staff and students to better respond to displacement challenges, as well as challenges faced by local communities, Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
3. To boost social responsibility of partner universities by involving academic community into solving social, economic, environmental, cultural and other societal issues.

Major project results:
1. Improved infrastructure of two partner universities allowing for innovative and partnership-based administration and teaching practices.
2. Enhanced competence of partner universities’ staff and students enabling them to provide good governance, contribute to teaching and learning excellence and internationalization of higher education.
3. New (renewed) partner universities’ institutional development strategies launched and available for internal and external stakeholders.
4. Enhanced quality of education in partner universities due to: modernized syllabi capable to meet the current challenges of local communities; enforcement of teaching and learning excellence, good governance and internationalization.
5. Active role and stronger impact of partner universities’ students and staff on implementation of institutional development strategies, university good governance, teaching and learning excellence, internationalization.
6. Strengthened cooperation between partner universities and local communities, contribution to social and economic recovery due to project resources and outputs and extending services to different groups of stakeholders.