From 19 to 25 April the team of the National University “Odessa Law Academy” of the associate professor of the Department of intellectual property rights RomanadzeLuiza and the 4-year student of the Faculty of international legal relations Nosenko Yuliia took part in the Competition of innovation projects, familiarizing with the EU practices in commercialization of research results by university staff and students’ for the European project, ‘Support of Innovation through Improvement of Regulatory Framework for Higher Education in Ukraine (SpinOff)’, which took place at the Coventry University, United Kingdom.In the competition also took part the teams of Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University ofOil and Gas, National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine, Donetsk NationalUniversity of Economicsand Trade named after Mykhailo Tugan Baranovsky. The aim of this trip was presentation of the project created by the team.

The presented by our team project was designed to provide training opportunities for practicing lawyers who are not able to travel frequently from their cities or towns. The proposed solution helps to make training more accessible, mobile and economical (due to no need to spend money on transportation, accommodation, food, other costs). Cooperating with leading universities, according to the project, it is supposed to create online courses that are distance education platform at its core. Thus the institution has an opportunity to earn additional income by implementing its research capacity and for improving the professional skills only working computer and Internet accessis needednow.

23-26, March on the base of Coventry University (the UK) it took part coordination meeting of representatives of partner universities of TEMPUS III Program “Support of innovations through improvement of regulatory framework for higher education in Ukraine”.

National University “Odesa Law Academy” was represented by the Head of Criminal Law Department Professor Tuliakov and Professor of the Department of the Theory and State and Law Kryzhanovskyi.

Participants of the meeting discussed results of the activity of partner universities for 2014.The report on contribution of the National University “Odesa Law Academy” on the realization of the Project was presented by Prof. Tuliakov. In his report his stressed the development of legislation by the Department of Economic Law and Procedure, that prepared a range of significant proposals on improvement of legislation of Ukraine on innovations and which were taken into account by development of legislation by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

A coordination meeting of the partner universities was held on March 30, 2015 in the framework of the TEMPUS IV Project “Development of Master Programme in European and International Law in Eastern Europe - InterEULawEast” at the Riga Graduate School of Social Technologies (Latvia).

National University “Odessa Law Academy” was represented by Vice-Rector for International Relations Viacheslav Tuliakov and Head of the Department of International Law and International Relations Mykola Pashkovskiy.

During the coordination meeting the organization of promotional activities of the mater program among students, the mechanism to provide scholarships for students from partner universities project to test the curriculum for the training of future master program, project co-financing from the partner universities were discussed.

Within the realization of TEMPUS III Program “Support of innovations through improvement of regulatory framework for higher education in Ukraine” by the Department of Economic Law and Procedure under leading of Professor Podcerkovnyi it was prepared proposals to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on the draft of the Act of Ukraine “On amendments to some acts of Ukraine on techno parks activity”

After the printed version was published, we are pleased to inform you that INTEREULAWEAST Journal Vol. 1, Issue 2, December 2014. is now also available online in its electronic edition. To access the current issue please visit the Journal's official website (http://www.efzg.unizg.hr/default.aspx?id=20483.

We would like to express our gratitude to all the authors, members of editorial board, reviewers and technical assistants for their contribution during the preparations of the current issue.

Within the realization of TEMPUS III Program “Support of innovations through improvement of regulatory framework for higher education in Ukraine” it was prepared a collective monograph “Experience of universities on innovations commercialization and opportunities of its applying in Ukraine” (Dnipropetrovsk, 2014, 244 p.)

The authors: Professor Kivalov, Prof. Podcerkovnyi, Assoc. Prof. Ziatina, Assoc. Prof. Romanadze.

The copies of the monograph are possible to be found at the library of the National University “Odesa Law Academy”

13-14, November, 2014 on the base of law faculty of Kazan Federal University it took the 2nd International Conference “Legal Reform and EU Enlargement – Transfer of Experiences”. The conference took part within within realization of “European and International Law Master Programme Development in Eastern Europe -InterEULawEast” TEMPUS program.

The National University “Odesa Law Academy” was performed by the Head of International Law and International Relations Prof. Pashkovskyi and Ass. Professor Plotnikov.

In the framework of coordination meeting negotiations were held between the partner universities of the Project on the structure, content and methodology of the future Master Programme. The offers of the representatives of the Odessa Law School on optimization of the structure and content of the Master Program were highly appreciated by other members of the consortium.

20-24, October, 2014 within the realization of TEMPUS III Program “Support of innovations through improvement of regulatory framework for higher education in Ukraine” it took part study visit of Ukrainian partners to Coventry University (UK) and Polytechnic Institute Porto (Portugal).

The National University “Odesa Law Academy” was represented by PhD student Alekseeva I.

The purpose of the study visit was to get practical skills in the sphere of intellectual property management at the University with the purpose of the further creation of consulting centers on the full or part transfer of technologies at Ukrainian partner universities.

15-20, September, 2014 within the realization of TEMPUS III Program “Support of innovations through improvement of regulatory framework for higher education in Ukraine” it took part study visit to Gdansk Politechnical University (Poland). The National University “Odesa Law Academy” was performed by Prof. Podcerkovnyi, Assoc. Prof. Romanadze, Assoc. Prof. Barskyy.

Representatives of Ukrainian universities performed concepts of creation consulting centers on technology transfer and analyze of Ukrainian legislation on higher education, particularly in that part, which is related to technology transfer.

Odessa Tempus Centre is established within the Tempus IV project INTEREULAWEAST - European and International Law Master Programme Developement in Eastern Europe along with two other Tempus Centres in partner countries – Zagreb Tempus Center at Zagreb University (Croatia) and Voronezh Tempus Centre at Voronezh State University (Russian Federation). Through the project the centre will acquire a representative library containing a number of publications and expert literature on European law and International law. Library will contain all necessary equipment available for research purposes (linked with relevant academic data bases) and targeted primarily at master students. The centre will disseminate knowledge on European integration, European law and International law to the students of the partner Universities as well as coming from various other institutions of relevant country and from other countries of the region and for wider public. Together with other actions establishment of the "Tempus" centers will ensure the future sustainability of the project.