Ongoing Projects

BETTER Life will establish a European Digital Centre of Excellence for fostering Socially Engaged Research (SER) in Life Sciences, as well as seven regional centres operating in their surrounding ecosystems.This inter-institutional support structure addresses the lack of collaboration between early career researchers and the non-academic sectors by designing tools, standards, and framework conditions under the umbrella of the EU centre and implementing these solutions in the regional ecosystems. The project aims to support the development of inter-institutional capacities by establishing an EU BETTER Life coordination centre that will generate transferable tools and standards. At an intra-institutional level, the project creates local centres guided by a framework to follow the regional customization implementation. At an individual level, the regional centres develop capacities by training early career researchers and establishing a community of practice in each surrounding ecosystem. For that purpose, the centre is based on the quadruple helix model of innovation, where the interaction of academic, research, industry, government, and society generate mutually beneficial partnerships.

The overall objective of CISCOFY is to boost the digital readiness, resilience and competences of university lecturers (primary and adult/youth trainers secondary) towards upscaling online education on three main pillars: digital transformation through the development of digital readiness, resilience and capacity, building skills to foster inclusion and representation in digital education and promote and rewarding excellence in teaching and skills development. CISCO-supported certificates will be offered. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme, Project No 2021-1-ES01-KA220-HED-000022911.

The objective of ARIEES are to help universities (and potentially adult training centres) to improve 1) their entrepreneurship courses by infusing impact investment know-how and 2) to upgrade the digital competences of lecturers/trainers to ensure that the impact investment knowledge can be properly infused into the learners while 3) certifying competences and boosting the quality of entrepreneurship trainers. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme.

entreYOUTH aims to develop a transnational non-formal education entrepreneurial youth worker training programme. The programme will contain: a digital education curriculum (on sustainable & circular urban food entrepreneurship based on four competence units at EQF level 5; a digital train the trainers toolkit (based on the ETS, EntreComp and DigComp frameworks); a digital open community food sharing platform that youth and society can utilise to serve alternative food networks while it can also provide an open market for social entrepreneurs; and lastly, a series of digital community training events based on UNICEF’s youth entrepreneurial training model – UPSHIFT. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme.

The FENIX project aims to contribute to fostering the resilience of European enterprises and their workers, through the development of an innovative gamified training experience, a guideline to support the implementation of systemic Resilience practices within enterprises and an online crash course on Adaptative Management. These results will be built upon the Organizational Resilience and Adaptive Management (ORAM) Framework and will be enriched by a booklet developed to foment XXI century pedagogical approaches to training. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme.

superYOUTH aims to develop a transnational youth worker training programme on better training youth to debunk disinformation, misinformation and malinformtion (DMM) / fake news. The programme will contain: a non-formal curriculum (on DMM competence units at EQF level 5 – equivalent for non-formal education)) for youth learners; a train the trainers toolkit (based on the DigComp framework) that will enable youth workers to improve the quality and effectiveness of their teaching (Result 2); an open access platform for young people where they can report fake news and ask for advice (moderated by experts) (result 3); and lastly, a series of citizen training events (that youth workers will utilise to pilot Results 1,2,3) based on UNESCO’s fake news training toolkit (which will be extended with a behavioural element to fight youth’s pre-existing biases formed through DMM exposure. Additionally, superYOUTH will facilitate certification according to YOUTHPASS (for youth participants) and DigComp (for youth workers).

digiLEAP will boost the digital readiness of university law departments and of the legal sector towards the digitally transformed environment (both online education and the professional environment) by making learning and digital skill development more effective.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme, Project No 2020-1-RO01-KA226-HE-095254. Find out more: https://digileap.eu/