• Project coordinator: Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland
• Project start date: 1 February 2025
  Project end date: 31 January 2028
• Project duration: 36 months
• Project budget: 400,000 EUR
• Project website: https://agents-of-change-slow-tourism.eu/

Project summary:

The project will study attitudes and values on sustainable and slow tourism and develop learning materials and courses to impact learners and teach about slow tourism. The project will work with local businesses in six cities located in the partners' countries and innovate new kinds of slow tourism services and products together with students. AGENTS will develop an online community to act as an interactive dissemination channel to promote learning and slow tourism.

• Project coordinator: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
• Project start date: 1 December 2022
• Project end date: 30 November 2026
• Project duration: 48 months
• Project budget for University of Ljubljana: 1,442,339 EUR
• Project website: https://eutopia-university.eu/english-version/eutopia-more

Project summary:

Following on from the EUTOPIA 2050 project, EUTOPIA MORE is proposed by the ten regionally and nationally diverse universities of the EUTOPIA Alliance as part of their overall ambition of institutional transformation guided by open, inclusive, and innovative principles. It involves their more than 255 000 students and 45 500 staff as direct beneficiaries of the project, as well as its network of local stakeholders and global partners. Convinced that the quickly evolving world, where the capacity to anticipate crises is limited, requires universities to transform themselves, EUTOPIA MORE catalyzes this process by creating the conditions to rethink the skills provided to students and staff; maximise the impact of their research within academia and beyond; and support initiatives around local-to-global societal challenges. The MAIN GOAL OF THE PROJECT - The ambitions of EUTOPIA MORE are threefold: (i) through its core approach of “Global Connecting Communities”, it will create the conditions for communities to connect across campuses and disciplines that launch bottom-up projects tackling education, research or outreach challenges of global relevance; (ii) the education initiatives of EUTOPIA will allow us to showcase, within a future joint EUTOPIA College, the enriched curriculum of the Bachelor, Master and PhD programs together with the innovations coming out of life-long learning initiatives; (iii) it will connect our initiatives in research, innovation and outreach geared towards tackling the big societal challenges of today, and integrating our academic communities within the future EUTOPIA Global Institute of knowledge communities, involving local to global partners. EUTOPIA MORE will also pave the way for the development of shared and distributed support services, a strong yet flexible governance structure and a new legal statute for the EUTOPIA Alliance, ensuring the sustainability of the initiatives over the long run.

• Project coordinator: Università Co’ Foscari Venezia, Italy
• Project start Date: 2023
• Project end Date: 2026
• Project duration: 36 months
• Project budget: 643,762 EUR
• Project website: https://regenu.eu/ 

Project Summary: 

More recently western economies have recognized the need to transition to become “regenerative economies” or a “regenerative green economy”. According t the European Green Deal there is and extensive need to boost the efficient use of resources by moving to a clean, circular economy and stop climate change, reverse biodiversity loss and cut pollution. For decades, universities have been stimulating economic growth through industrially relevant research, technology commercialization, high-tech spin-offs and developing talent. The overall aim for the project is to (1) clarify, design and trial the type of role that HEIs can have in transitioning society from an extractive to regenerative green economy; (2) equip and empower change-makers with the necessary skills, knowledge and attitudes on sustainability and the regenerative green economy and (3) to think globally to impact local environments through the development of solutions with truly regenerative business models.

• Project coordinator: Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia 
• Project start date: 1 October 2024
• Project end date: 31 December 2025
• Project duration: 14 months
• Project budget: 53,887 EUR
• Project website: https://www.linkedin.com/company/force-forensic-accounting-and-fraud-in-contemporary-digital-environment/

• Project coordinator: Pannon Egyetem, Hungary
• Project start date: 30 December 2022
• Project end date: 29 March 2025
• Project duration: 27 months
• Project budget: 400,000 EUR
• Project website: https://skipperproject.eu/en/about/

Project summary:

Project aims at creating a Skills Portfolio of Personal Development for students that contains their achievements during the university years in a way that both curricular and extra-curricular activities are recognised. In order to make the Portfolio part of the everyday practice of HEIs, project will access the skills mismatches and will promote the skills development to make sure that students and universities understand the necessity of the improvement of skills.

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• Project coordinator: Diktyo Poleon Gia Ti Viosimi Anaptyxi Kai Kzkliki Oikonomia, Greece
• Project start date: 1 July 2022
• Project end date: 30 June 2025
• Project duration: 36 months
• Project budget: 1,374,630 EUR
• Project website: https://hypro4st-project.eu/

Project summary:

The tourism sector is undergoing profound changes throughout Europe, as we are living in the Project, Digital, Creative, Entrepreneurial and Green Economy era, thus applying a holistic approach to sustainable tourism development is crucial. HyPro4ST alliance seeks tobring positive social and sustainable impact to tourism sector and is built around the idea that collaborative, transnational activities offer opportunities for boosting innovation and progress by pooling resources and the deep knowledge of markets required in a fast-changing world.

The MAIN GOALS OF THE PROJECT:

• It aims to develop a new job “Sustainable and Hybrid Project Manager” profile for the Sustainable Tourism Sector, upskill professionals in sustainable, hybrid, digital, creative and entrepreneurship project management, helping alleviate the job losses, inequalities, and other risks, and to build a talent pipeline that tourism sector can mine for future growth.
• It also proposes the upscaling of VET and higher education trainers’ skills, to be able to adapt to the tourism labour market needs.
• HyPro4ST develops a joint training programme, HyPro4ST VOOC, in accordance with the ECVET/EQF/EQAVET and Micro-credential approach, the HyPro4ST Practical Guide for trainers, a certification scheme for the new profile and the HyPro4ST Virtual Learning Hub.
• Through 6 Seminars, 6 online courses, 2 work-based learning activities and the transnational mobility, will enhance the competences of 700 professionals, tackling skills mismatches and supporting the formation of an effective higher and vocational education system for the sustainable tourism sector.
• This multi-stakeholder partnership, comprising of 17 partners from 6 European countries, develops all the outputs in 7 EU languages, ensuring their cross-border transferability.
• Furthermore, it assures the long-lasting effect of the project results by elaborating Policy Recommendations, able to inform the policy agendas at national and EU level.

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• Project coordinator: School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Project start date: 3 October 2022
• Project end date: 2 October 2025
• Project duration: 36 months
• Project budget: 23,000 EUR

PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT:

The purpose of the project is to generate and disseminate knowledge and best practices for strengthening the role of the EU in a globalised world and enhancing competitiveness of EU firms in turbulent global markets. 

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT:

• Increase awareness and understanding of the role of European integration processes for the success of European firms in global markets and the role of the EU in a globalised world.
• Strengthen cooperation and exchange of theory and risk management practices between academic and corporate sphere.
• Present a forum for dialogue and exchange of experiences, knowledge and best practices with policymakers and wider society.
• Contribute to promoting European values in economic relations with third countries at the individual, corporate, and institutional levels of cooperation.

MAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT

• New teaching module “Risk Management in International Business – A Key to EU Business Success in Global Markets” in the 2nd year of International Business master’s programme as a part of the course Risk Management in International Business.
• Joint projects of participating students and European firms dealing with real challenges in global markets.
• Workshop “How to guarantee a sustainable connectivity between the EU and China”.

Promotion of the research cooperation in the following areas:

• integration of European firms in GVCs and associated risks,
• implications of European integration processes and international agreements between the EU and third countries for EU business success in global economy,
• the relationship between risk management systems and strategy,
• managing geo-political risk of European firms in foreign markets (e.g. China, India).

DELIVERABLES OF THE PROJECT:

• Teaching: teaching materials on theoretical and methodological risk management concepts and approaches, relevant EU integration processes and institutional frameworks, and practices of European firms.
• Science: Special issue “Risk management practice of European firms” in the scientific journal Economic and Business Review aimed at disseminating scientific contributions and empirical evidence on risk management performance of European firms.
• Practice: Risk management manual for European firms – conceptual model with practical guidelines for European firms on managing risks in their internationalisation and GVC integration.

PROJECT TEAM:

• Katja Zajc Kejžar (Head of project)
• Darja Peljhan
• Peter Trkman
• Anastas Vangeli
• Jakob Stemberger

Project coordinator: School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Project start date: 1 March 2021
Project end date: 28 February 2023
Project duration: 24 months
Project budget: 144,920 EUR

Partner universities:

• University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business, Slovenia (coordinator), contact: Darija Aleksić
• Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey, contact: Aysun Kapucugil İkiz
• Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, Germany, contact: Susanne Stetter
• University of Gdansk, Poland, contact: Joanna Bednarz
• University of Leon, Spain, contact: María Fernández Raga

MAIN GOAL OF THE PROJECT:

To improve the quality of e-learning through the development and implementation of the DigiMates innovative method for online game-based learning, which will not only increase the engagement of millennial students in the e-learning process, but also promote the acquisition of additional skillsets and enable virtual mobility. Due to the advancement of digitalization, the changing needs of the newest generation of students (i.e., Digital natives), and the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need to provide high-quality e-learning and virtual mobility. Innovative teaching methods are needed to promote student engagement in e-learning and enable internationalisation at home.

The main goal of the project corresponds to the SPECIFIC GOALS:

• SO1: To increase the quality of e-learning by providing a comprehensive, internationally applicable step-by-step guide for the development and maintainability of the quality assurance system in e-learning.
• SO2: To increase the potential of HEIs to implement innovative teaching methods by employing a comprehensive approach to develop and implement the DigiMates method for online game-based learning
• SO3: To increase the digital literacy of academic staff by providing an advanced online teaching program to improve the digital readiness of teachers for game-based e-learning.

INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS of the project are the following:

• IO1: A step-by-step guidebook on how to establish and implement a quality assurance system for e-learning
• IO2: An innovative online game-based teaching method that enhances student engagement and virtual mobility
• IO3: An online training program for teachers, which will improve the competencies that teachers need to work in today's rapidly evolving learning environment
• IO4: Established protocol for DigiMates virtual mobility and incorporation of the method into subject-specific courses
• IO5: DigiMates Toolkit, i.e. established technical protocol with guidelines and tutorials for implementation of the DigiMates method for academic staff

FREE COURSES ON DIGITAL COMPETENCES

For the Erasmus+ DIGIMATES project, the partners developed a series of free courses in English. Several courses, each with an estimated duration of 3 hours, have a practical approach suitable for teachers, students, and administrative and service staff.

• Digital Collaboration & Developing Digital Content in Global Business by Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Engaging in citizenship through digital technologies by University of Gdansk, Poland
• Integrating and re-elaborating digital content by University of León, Spain
• Copyrights and license by University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Identifying needs and technological responses by Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey

The password for self-enrolment is DIGIMATES.

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