HIGHER EDUCATION - ERASMUS
European Heritage, Digital Media and the Information Society: an European Master Programme
The project aims at creating a European Master Programme that promotes the integration of Knowledge of European Cultural Heritage with familiarity with current developments in ITC, Digital Media, Intellectual Property Rights and their commercial implications, in order to produce a new type of professionals capable of meeting the needs for new content in the Information Society and effectively managing this competencies in practical situations.
Multidisciplinary Approach to Product Innovation
This IP will focus on product innovation, an essential strategic approach for creating competitive advantages in this dynamic, global business environment. A main challenge is to converge different knowledge fields or disciplines into a single product or process. A multidisciplinary approach to innovation is indispensable.
INNO-FOREST: Integrating Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research in Higher Forestry Education
The main objective of this IP is to transfer the knowledge on innovation and entrepreneurship generated in research into higher education curricula using real world cases. The IP is targeted mainly for undergraduate students of related fields of studies (forestry, environment, etc.)
Observatoire européen de l'objet – Art and Design
L'Observatoire européen de l'Objet a l'ambition de créer une situation innovante dans la pédagogie du design: un espace expérimental de réflexion et de production d'objets. Les objectifs principaux sont la recherche a) d'une éthique et l'établissement au sein de la profession de designer de valeurs fondamentales: écologie, durabilité, éducation, solidarité, rituels de culture et b) de l'apprentissage des langues, voire l'apprentissage et l'invention d'autres moyens de communication, mêlant nouvelles technologies et techniques plus archaïques, préfigurant les groupes de travaux européens de demain.
Europe IN novative S cience T eachers' E ducation by I ntroducing N owadays themes (EINSTEIN)
This IP is set up to let students get in touch with different types of science education in Europe, in order to: 1) Discover the differences and similarities in teacher training science education between Northern, Western and Eastern, Southern European countries; 2) Take advantage of each other's unique know how in different fields of science education; 3) Get insight in different approaches in science education laboratory work resulting from differences in educational backgrounds.
Architectural Design and Manufacturing: From the School Lab to the Fabrication Workshop (CONTINUUM)
Schools of architecture and small to medium sized enterprises are not in the necessary close contact to promote creativity, innovation and competitiveness in the domain of the creation of contemporary architecture. Continuum is a project that aims at putting together the two parties to exchange research results, information, ideas, techniques, methods and expertise in the domain of design-to-manufacturing with the use of advanced technology at European level.
ARTESNET Europe Thematic Network for Higher Arts Education in Europe
The creative partnership network ‘artesnet Europe’ sees itself as a Europe-wide ‘community of practice’, connecting practitioners from the creative/cultural sector, teaching staff from art schools, educators, and artistic researchers from almost all EU-countries, Iceland, Norway, and Turkey. It pilots and collects best practice of artistic and creative partnerships between art schools, non-formal education and local communities. Building on successful results achieved in a previous project, the Network structures its work in three strands: creative partnerships, qualifications frameworks, and joint research and Masters’ programmes.
http://www.elia-artschools.org/networks/associated
"Polifonia" erasmus Network for Music
Until recently, the European dimension of the Higher Music Education sector was limited. With the aim to address this situation, music entered the Erasmus Network system as an individual discipline for the first time in 2004 with the ‘Polifonia’ Network. This second cycle of ‘Polifonia’ builds on many successful outcomes of the first period, but also explores new issues in the following 3 strands:
- The ‘EHEA’ Strand: activities that aim at the implementation, monitoring and further development of tools related to recognition, comparability and quality assurance.
- The ‘Lisbon’ Strand: activities addressing issues related to the ‘Education & Training 2010’ Agenda.
- The ‘Research’ Strand: study the role of research in higher music education and its contribution to the quality of teaching and learning.
Virtual Campus for Digital Students
The main objective is to build a virtual campus for digital students aimed at providing open educational resources and tools available and accessible for all students and to ensure the interoperability between the different eLearning environments used in the partner universities. The goal of ViCaDiS is to create an attractive environment for all students within the Member States, using already existing tools which will be enhanced with new tools wanted by the new generation of students.
History on Line
Promote integration between University history professors researchers, and students of different European countries involving them in a common effort for the development of an Internet Portal that will become the common point of reference for the innovation of materials and methodologies for history writing, teaching and learning based on the effective use of ICT potential.
Ready for Virtual Mobility?
The core objectives are to encourage participation and enhance efficiency of virtual mobility in higher education, to contribute to the holistic implementation framework of virtual mobility, to address the needs of potential virtual mobility students, to raise awareness about the importance of permanent intensive interactions between provider and partner universities/colleges and to enhance students performance in virtual mobility.
WEEU - Women's Entrepreneurship in the European Union
The project seeks to contribute to the development of women’s entrepreneurship by:
a) establishing an innovative partnership between higher education institutions, chambers of commerce and enterprises;
b) the research, design, piloting and dissemination of new teaching and learning methods and materials relevant to women entrepreneurs;
c) the research, design, piloting and dissemination of mentoring and work shadowing
DELLIISS - Designing Lifelong Learning for Innovation in Information Services Science
“Services science” is an emerging scientific discipline, it supports innovation in the services economy. The need for a new professional job profile has been identified, of an engineer dealing with the innovation, design and engineering of new information services. It is associated with individuals that have an entrepreneurship profile and a strong professional background from business and/or ICT and therefore it demands a lifelong learning approach. The project aims at developing the required LL components and integrate them in the evolution of existing related LL activities.
ETN Teaching, Research, Innovation in Computing Education
The project tries to establish links between training, research and innovation by means of introducing advanced educational programmes in computing education (CE).
The project consortium has successfully implemented and completed two thematic networks: ECET and DEC. As a result, comparable professional standards, curricula and syllabi of the three educational degrees have been developed. To close the whole cycle we must try to interlink teaching, research and innovations in the field of CE and training.
Lifelong learning network for sustainable development
In response the importance of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is widely accepted, as is the need for lifelong learning, emphasized in Agenda 21 and integrated in a number of international declarations. Three main challenges can be identified to address global learning needs a) self-directed learning possibilities for competence development, b) transdisciplinary settings to make knowledge effective in real-life situations and c) crossing borders of academic vs. non academic learning towards a holistic approach to lifelong learning.
IPLECS-Internet-based Performance-centred Learning Environment for Curriculum Support
This project answers to the need of development of a complete master degree program at the point of intersection between information technology and communications. The innovative performance-centred approach has been developed, tested and implemented and our partnership experience returned strong positive results - it has been proven to be more effective than the traditional lecture-practice-test (expository inductive) in training higher order skills, for preparing learners for self-learning, improving and adapting for changing jobs.
BINNOC - Building innovation capability in European business organisations through university - enterprise co-operation
The main aim of the project is to design a work methodology within higher education institutions and companies which allows the diagnosis of the innovation capability of companies (especially SMEs) and to propose a series of actions (training modules) which respond to the needs identified. By means of active co-operation between universities and enterprises, innovation will be introduced in all spheres of action of companies as a competitiveness improvement tool.
FEPIC - Female Engineers Pushing Innovation in Companies
This project is focused on female students with a scientific-engineering background to teach them creativity for innovation and leadership. It aims to create increased collaboration between industry, academia and professional associations to produce a training tool to increase creativity and leadership skills of female engineers.
