COWEB ERASMUS+ 2027

We want to build WB HEI capacity for international virtual collaboration as an innovative pedagogy in teaching and learning, with a focus on co-creating virtual learning spaces and course content that will boost 21st century skills and competencies and address the low cross-border collaboration among young students in the Western Balkans region

• WB HEI Students will go through virtual collaborative and interactive course design content and activities with other peers from the region and beyond. This will help them build applied and transferrable skills and knowledge very relevant for employability and career prospects in the modern labor market.
• WB HEI Academic Staff will be introduced to innovative pedagogies and will gain enhanced capacities to conduct cutting edge teaching activities through modern interactive technologies, which will increase the relevance of their teaching practices to the real needs of industry and the modern society. This will facilitate for collaborative academic activities with partner HEIs in the EU.
• WB HEI Administrative staff and other authorities will be introduced to new approaches for academic international exchange through interactive technology-based tools. They will be provided with project results and EU best practices and standards to be adopted at WB HEI institutional level, pushing for the facilitation and a formal credit recognition of virtual collaborative modules. Duration: 2023-2026

HACK-IT Project
https://hackit.ipb.pt/
Project Code
2021-1-PT01-KA220-HED-000023406
KA220-HED - Cooperation partnerships in higher education
Acronym
HACK-IT
Project Title
Hackathon and ICT-based Innovative Methodologies in Higher Education
Start date: 01/02/2022 End date: 31/01/2025
About
Hackathon and ICT-based Innovative Methodologies in Higher Education project will establish a strong partnership network and a community of practice for ensuring digital readiness of the stakeholders within and beyond the partnership.
In the current context of the current resilience demand, the project partners acknowledge the importance of the unique challenges and experiences of every institution during the pandemic and each partner’s expertise that let tackle the obstacles successfully.
It is more important than ever that this expertise is shared and combined across different HEIs to maximise the learning gains and keep students enrolled despite any obstacles they might face. Responding to the everchanging nature of the current situation and IT advancement, a strong network of experts and the community of practice established within the project aim to develop partnerships and resources that can be sustainably used by HEIs teachers in alignment with EU skills agenda, Digital Education Action Plan, European Education Area (EEA).
Objectives
The project addresses the imperatives to create more flexible and inclusive as well as secure technology enhanced open education that can be delivered in online, blended, and distance modes of teaching/learning. The project addresses the importance of supplementing teachers’ expertise in content knowledge with digital and pedagogical competences to ensure high quality, active, and transformative teaching/learning.
It aims to enable teachers to implement and develop innovative practices in education in the digital era, promote and reward excellence in teaching and skills’ development, tackle, focus on and breach gaps and mismatches in teachers’ competences as well as develop a versatile approach to student learning in a way that will improve teacher and student active participation and satisfaction, efficient cooperation in teaching/learning settings.

MORIN Mobility Recognition for Integration, a strand 1 CBHE multi-country project, addresses ‘Integration of migrants’ as a regional overarching priority by focusing on academic recognition of student mobility based on learning outcomes (LOs) as an innovative pedagogical approach, both necessary and pertinent, for linking work with education, by ensuring curriculum transparency, comparability, flexibility for improving recognition and study transfer procedures, revising course contents, methodologies and assessment to provide for student-centred and skills-oriented learning that adds an international, global dimension to the curriculum, thus, enhancing collaboration among WB6 HEIsforstudent exchange and intra-regional employability and connectivity. We follow these interconnected paths of action:
developing documents and tools to establish a common regional approach to academic recognition, internationalizing the curriculum via global LOs and embedded mobility, establishing institutional procedures for the recognition of credit mobility by adopting a LOs model for enhancing transparency, quality teaching and learning for future-proof skills, and mobility and credential completion through credit transfer.
A regional mapping survey will be carried out. A self-assessment mobility recognition tool, regulations for institutionwide recognition practices, guidelines for academic recognition via LOs will be developed, the LOs of at least 5 courses from two study programmes at WB HEIs will be rewritten, 5 recognition practices, one per WB HEI, will be simulated and compared against the real ones within the consortium. Training workshops and webinars will be organized to build the capacities of academic staff for improving recognition practices.
WB HEIs, their staff and students, as direct beneficiaries, and other WB universities, ministry, policy-makers, HE experts should be able to exploit the project deliverables and integrate them into their HE contexts Project duration: 24 months
Keywords:

• Promotion of employability
• Identification of skills needs
• recognition of qualifications
• mobility (virtual, physical and blended)
• Globalisation, Migration
• European education area

Project number: 101128376
Project name: Mobility recognition for integration
Project acronym: MORIN
Participants:
University of Vlora
European University of Tirana
Professional College of Tirana
Biznesi College
AAB College
Palacký University Olomouc
University St Kliment Ohridski Bitola
University of Nis