Ecosystem for European Education Mobility as a Service: Model with Portal Demo (eMEDIATOR)

The project is implemented by a consortium of 5 European universities: Transport and Telecommunication Institute (LATVIA) – project leader, University of Ioannina (GREECE), University of Murcia (SPAIN), Aalen University (GERMANY), University of Lodz (POLAND).

Short description of the project:

The aim of the project is creation an ecosystem model with demo portal used principals of service-based, competency based, student-cantered education and business-academia partnerships for offering courses and various types of employment within one single European education and employment market. As a result of the project, the following should be achieved:

• Meeting individual educational needs of students, lecturers and employees of businesses for the development of specific competences on the base of education mobility services during study in university and long life learning;
• Promoting career development of lecturers which have their own values independently of academic institutions, mission and vision which might not be aligned with the values and career aspirations of lecturers. These lecturers might be demanded by some other institutions, and this project will help institutions and lecturers find each other. This exchange will facilitate talent development and talent exchange, which ultimately boosts European development;
• Enabling lecturers to develop their professional competences in another European context when their local context does not allow for it at the moment, the local market is not interested in this particular set of knowledge of competences or is already saturated with professionals with such competences, which results in the local market inability to offer the context of the development of such competences at an academic institution or in a company. Ignoring such needs might not be advisable because universities continue to offer training that develops this particular set of competences or offered such training in the past, and therefore, should bear some degree of ethical responsibility for the implementation of such competences by graduates;
• Developing the knowledge of competences that are required on the European market, not only on their local market. This knowledge is valuable because lecturers and academic institutions are supposed to train students not only for the current local context, but for the international, European, context of today and tomorrow;
• Offering opportunities for industry to find specialists for their unique competence-based demand on the entire European common education market, without being restricted to generalized supply of knowledge constrained by their local market and local perception of development. Ultimately, this will boost macro-level economic development of the common European market;
• Offering opportunities for individuals (students and lecturers) and corporate structures (higher education institutions and enterprises) to obtain and offer services from other European countries on the continuous or sporadic full-time or part-time basis while residing in one specific location in the European Union. This is the merge of education and business, studies and work into a single agile “eduwork” space created by online activities;
• Providing academic institutions with an opportunity to recruit specialists with specific competences that they cannot find on the local market;
• Creating an economic environment for implementing academic competences;
• Implementing a competence-based model of higher education into a digital reality offering educational and employment opportunities;
• Boosting educational competitiveness of small economies, such as Latvian, via open-access to various educational and business European markets via lecturer and academic institutions employment in other European countries, perhaps, mostly in the online part-time and project-based mode often on the continuous basis

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Project files:

• Final Report
• Internal Report-1
• Internal Report-2
• Internal Report-3
• Internal Report-4
• Internal Report-5
• Internal Report-6
• Dissemination Report
• Multiplier Events
• Quality Report
• List of Publications within the frame of eMEDIATOR project
• Paper 1
• Paper 2
• Paper 3
• Paper 4
• Paper 5
• Paper 6
• Paper book
• Paper 7
• Paper 8
• Paper 9
• Paper 10
• Paper 11
• Paper 12
• Management Report

Total budget of the project: 294145,00 EUR

ERASMUS + STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROJECT Under the Union programme for education, training, youth and sport No – 2021-1-LV01-KA220-HED-000027571