Our active projects

ARIES
Augmented and immersive Reality for Improved Education in Schools in Europe

The ARIES project will develop feasible and low-threshold, and low-cost facilitation concepts for secondary school teachersand learning modules for secondary school students on Augmented and Immersive Reality (A&IR) learning technologies.School teachers and students will be equipped with the necessary skills and competences to facilitate and apply innovativelearning approaches and open-source A&IR learning technology solutions in existing courses, curricula and study projects.

Coordinator:
CNR-ITD National Research Council – Institute for Didactic Technologies (IT)

Start: 01/10/2023
End: 30/09/2025

SMERALD
SMEs – Raising Awareness and Learning on Digital data, data analysis and artificial intelligence

SMERALD aims to raise the capacity of European SMEs to be an active part of Europe’s digital transformation and to fully exploit the market potential given by a proper awareness and applications of digital data competences. Specifically, it wants to raise SMEs’ managers’ awareness on such potential and develop SMEs’ employees digital data competences to properly apply them in their business contexts. Also, VET educators will act as facilitators of digital data competence development in SMEs.

Coordinator:
CNR-ITD National Research Council – Institute for Didactic Technologies (IT)

Start: 01/11/2023
End: 31/10/2025

TRAIL
TRansition to Accessible and Inclusive Learning within KA1

The purpose of this project is to look into the current state of learning on mobility for disadvantaged and disabled adult learners in Europe. It intends to explore existing best practice models, identify barriers to mobility and suggest potential solutions. Specifically, the TRAIL project will focus on how to effectively create a learning environment that is accessible and inclusive for all participants.

Coordinator:
Blinc (DE)
Start: 01/11/2023
End: 31/10/2025

DISC

Developing Innopreneurship, Sustainability and Culture

In DISC, we intend to develop an innovative approach to introduce Sustainable Development (SD) in European universities and practically via student projects in business management and local communities.

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Coordinator
University of Duisburg-Essen (DE)
Start: 01/11/2022
End: 31/10/2024

PROSPER

Post Pandemic Empowerment Programme

The objective of the Post Pandemic Empowerment Programme (PROSPER) is to design, develop and implement a new training approach which empowers SME managers to reimagine their role as remote managers and ensure remote employees balance digital productivity with wellbeing and inclusion.

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Coordinator:
Die Berater (AT)
Start: 01/02/2022
End: 31/05/2024

VIVA

Versatile and Innovative open educational resources for collaborative Virtual and mobile learning Arrangements in HE

VIVA is a project that aims to develop elements of online digitization and collaboration to enrich traditional teaching in higher education. The idea stems from the difficulties the teaching sector has faced in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Coordinator:
Università di Vilnius (LT)
Start: 01/01/2022
End: 31/12/2023

GSD

Generators for Sustainable Development

The GSD project responds to the lack of innovative educational programs aimed at building skills in the area of sustainable development. Thus, the project uses the key concept "sustainability literacy" to provide the necessary skills upon which learning professionals can build their own innovative learning programs aimed at the topic of sustainability.

Coordinator:
Blinc (DE)
Start: 01/12/2021
End: 01/12/2023

CIP

Culture InnoPreneurship - Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Digitalisation and Facilitation Competences for Culture Professionals

The CIP project aims to make cultural and educational professionals ambassadors of innovation and creativity in their local environments. To do so, CIP promotes the acquisition of entrepreneurial, digital and facilitation skills. It also promotes the development of creativity and innovation to incentivise the implementation of local projects that create solutions to social challenges.

Coordinator:
Landkreis Kassel (DE)
Start: 01/11/2021
End: 31/10/2023

PROMOTE

PRosthetic and Orthotic specialist MOdules for Higher Education Training in Europe

In PROMOTE will  create a modular learning programme to close the gap between the existing programmes in P&O, across degrees and between academic and non-academic programmes. Also, we will provide continuous training for the different prosthetic and orthotic disciplines, to train more professionals for the European market and to help them stay on top of new technologies and developments.

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Coordinator
PFH – Private University of Applied Sciences (DE)
Start: 01/01/2021
End: 31/08/2023

PPS

PEOPLE, PLACE AND STORIES

The project aims to strengthen the capacity building of "heritage communities" as a socio-cultural space for creativity, learning, participation and inclusion. The project addresses heritage professionals, citizens, facilitators, adult educators, local authorities, and the wider community, and will analyse which competences are needed for the development of "heritage communities" and will develop a training curriculum for those involved in order to increase the number and improve the quality and impact of these communities on society.

Coordinator:
Landkreis Kassel (DE)
Start: 02/11/2020
End: 01/11/2022

PITCH

 

The project aims to develop innovative teaching and learning approaches for entrepreneurship. The purpose of PITCH is to introduce entrepreneurship, and with it a sense of initiative, creativity and innovation, as key competences in a transversal approach that can be transferred to a wide range of research fields and study areas in European higher education.

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Coordinator:
Università di Duisburg-Essen (DE)
Start: 01/11/2019
End: 31/05/2022

T4SD

TIME4SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The project aims to improve the knowledge, skills and competences of adult educators, trainers and managers by stimulating their interest in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and supporting business processes in the inclusion of SDGs in organisations. To achieve this purpose, a tailor-made Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme will be developed in a blended learning mode (residential and online) for trainers who in turn will facilitate learning, training and development within the various organisations.

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Coordinator:
Apricot Training Management (UK)
Start: 01/11/2019
End: 31/12/2021

DATALIT

The project aims to reduce the gap between the business and academic worlds by offering university students from various backgrounds the opportunity to attain an appropriate level of knowledge of data use and analysis that they can use and apply in their personal and professional lives. Furthermore, the project intends to create a direct contact between European enterprises and potential future employees or business partners who are trained in the effective use of data.

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Coordinator:
National Research Council – Institute for Learning Technologies (IT)
Start: 01/11/2019
End: 31/10/2021