Energy generation and use obtained new urgency the last year when Russia invaded Ukraine. European and other countries encountered harsh realities when problems related to energy availability and affordability had to be tackled. An urgent need for faster and more efficient transitioning towards renewable sources is evident. The project proposal lies within priority research and innovation. It intends to bring together the scientists and practitioners and involve experienced researchers and early-stage researchers in social sciences, electrical engineering, physics and environmental sciences. Scientists will interact with managers of large-scale solar park clusters in Egypt and Morocco, which would allow understanding specifics and scale of problems related to renewable energy production, use and trade. An interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary approach here may lead to novel solutions, which may have important policy implications. We intend to build a cluster for innovative energy, which will involve other clusters already created in the former Horizon 2020 and other projects. The cluster for innovative energy would be a cluster of clusters allowing broad engagement of scientists, practitioners, policymakers, NGOs and other stakeholders. In the context of the war, innovative solutions stemming from the inter-sectoral cooperation of geographically remoted partners can become resilience drivers. The project is based on previous work but goes beyond since it generates and strengthens long-term collaborations via training researchers, encouraging geographical mobility, and fostering exchange between sectors and disciplines.

<< Objectives >>The Evolving Textbook project addresses the need for a more flexible and learners-centred approach to higher education textbooks. In contrast to traditional textbooks, the TET project will create digitized, highly adaptable, and personalized textbook content that will better suit the needs of teachers and learners. The ever-evolving textbook will allow for the inclusion of recent scientific developments in the selected fields and will support active involvement of learners in textbook evolution.<< Implementation >>The project will develop an innovative textbook platform that will upgrade current online educational platforms used by partners. The consortium will define tools that will implement the core textbook content used today and enhance it using advanced functionalities. The platform will be deployed at all partners’ institutions and evaluated to assess the benefits for teachers and learners. During the dissemination, a wider impact of project results on the national and EU level will be achieved.<< Results >>The project will result in an innovative platform for evolving higher education textbooks. The platform will be integrated into existing online platforms of partners’ institutions and will enable fast implementation into HE courses. Teachers and learners will benefit greatly from the flexibility and adaptability of the platform. The results will also be applicable to educational programmes in other fields of education, training, youth, and sport.

"Project ""Technology education in the digital era supported by the significant use of research results"" is an actual response for an insufficient use of research results, which are produced by higher education institutions, in teaching processes. Project is mainly focused on technology education in the area of mechanical engineering and construction/civil engineering and it enables international and interdisciplinary work. Nonetheless there in no restrictions on extension to the other range of disciplines. Program is also focused on different forms of training in which academics will participate in order to improve their competences regarding preparation of courses. They are planned to support the abovementioned use of research results in teaching contents. There is still a long way to widely employ research results in education, especially for international purposes. In addition, the dissemination of research results in education carried out by cooperation of universities and companies has not yet been thoroughly studied before. Therefore the strategic partnership of four higher education institutions (universities) and one company is formed in order to improve existing methodologies of each partner and work out an innovative teaching approaches including international collaboration in the area of teaching. Partners have decided to implement the results in two main disciplines such as mechanical engineering and civil engineering. Notwithstanding, dissemination of results and their further applications can be also concerned with other disciplines. The beneficiaries of proposed project are mainly master/doctoral students and academics involved in teaching process on that levels. Within the project partners would like to develop the following detailed outputs: 1. Guide for educators regarding the utilization of research results in technology education.Aspects of educational technologies in elaborating of educational processes seems to be fairly essential. Consequently, one of the main goal is to originally propose a complete and comprehensive guide for educators respecting the results obtained in analysed brand of science (e.g., mechanical engineering). At this stage of performance the comparative and qualitative analysis of existing practices, literature and student/teacher opinions might be quite crucial. One of the main feature of guidelines should be their general purpose.2. Development of the digital platform methodologies for utilization of research results in technology education.At this stage of work an existing digital platforms and possibilities of their adoptions for utilization of research results in technology educations are carefully studied. Furthermore, development and testing of a set of tools (e.g., templates, procedures, algorithms) of research results in digital platform is a significant factor of undertaken activities.3. Development of pilot lectures using EDURES methodologies.In output 3 the new lecture will be developed to support technology education in partner universities and share their knowledge and useful practices. The lectures will contain completely new data and teaching materials will be presented. The series of eight brand new lectures are planned to be initiated that will indicate how the teaching content (especially utilizing research results) should correctly defined.4. Digital platform with implemented EDURES teaching content.In this stage of work the results from three previous intellectual outputs will be implemented into the existing platforms and their efficiency among target groups of students and teachers will be tested. The unique (brand new) educational platform utilising research outcomes into technology education will be formulated..5. Report on the development of the set of tools and procedures for EDURES feedback and methods of continuous improvement.In this issue the potential collective advancements of the developed tools to utilize research results in technology education will be confidently expected. Feedback of the students towards the teachers along with feedback to those who applied and handle with digital platform will be urgently required. Constructive and valuable feedback are keenly awaited from other institutions. Moreover, strictly defined methods to make received data useful for improvements of the EDURES platform will be also one of the objective in the work undertaken. Likewise application of the feedback results into developed platform will be meticulously implemented. In the last stage of conceived venture the procedures developed for sustain and extend our work into the future are significantly found."

"The DIG-MAN project supports the overall objective of the ERASMUS+ programme by bringing four universities and one VET centre into collaboration and joint development of novel outputs (digital tools) for higher education. Countries that are involved are: Estonia, Norway, Poland, Lithuania and Italy. DIG-MAN supports the horizontal priorities of ERASMUS+ by developing basic skills and key competences (1) and by promoting innovative pedagogies and methods for teaching and learning in a digital era. The DIG-MAN project also supports the higher education related field-specific priorities of ERASMUS+ by tackling skills gaps and mismatches that the learning-outcomes of curricula meet the learning needs of students and being also relevant to the labour market and societal needs (including through better use of open and online, blended, integrated and multidisciplinary learning).The global economy is rapidly becoming digital and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is no longer a specific sector but the foundation of all modern innovative economic systems. DIG-MAN project is thus an innovation project aiming to support the wider industrial digitalisation goals for what the digital skills of the educators and students of higher education are crucial. The main focus of the project is on the Master's level students/curricula of engineering, manufacturing and product development but the overall hypothesis (that will be also tested during the project) is that these new digital tools could be used universally in all levels of education (mainly in vocational and adult education). For the transferability and outreach, one VET centre in Italy - Centoform - has been involved to coordinate the testing and dissemination of the outputs into other levels of education. Higher education has to keep pace with the global market needs for the necessary ICT skills and to support these general goals, the main expected results of the DIG-MAN project are:1) The digital skills of the educators are improved with the development of the new ""Didactic Guide for utilization of digital manufacturing tools for product development and manufacturing (ProDeM) in higher education"" (the Output 1, shortly the ""ProDeM Guide"" for educators). This new digital guide (handbook) is actively disseminated to other education institutions - not only universities and other higher education institutions, but also to other levels of education (please see the Task O1/A3).2) The digital skills and other relevant key competences of the students are improved through the development and adaption of the new ""Integrated Digital Workbook for ProDeM students"" (Output 2) including the whole product development and manufacturing cycle education. The ProDeM Workbook itself is a digital learning material (to be used on a mobile platform or a computer) including exercises to be solved with problem-based learning (PBL) method.3) In addition to the integrated workbook, new e-learning materials are developed (at least for 12 courses) for product development and manufacturing (please see Output 3). All materials will be developed as Open Educational Ressources (OER).4) Skills of collaborating in team-work, creativity and entrepreneurship will be supported through the ProDeM experiments (please see the Task O3/A2) to validate (and if relevant improve) the newly developed digital learning materials (the new ProDeM Workbook and e-learning materials). In addition to exercises designed with the PBL method, new digital materials will include videos, games and interactive tests collected and developed by the trans-European DIG-MAN team.In conclusion, the needs to be addressed on the completion of the DIG-MAN project:- current gaps in relation to the need for developing multi-discipline skills for using different kinds of digital manufacturing tools used at different phases in a manufacturing environment; - drawbacks and lack of attractiveness of the existing training tools based on playful didactic (including the PBL method);- challenges and lack of flexibility/portability in existing training tools for learning anywhere/learning on the go;- integrated learning system which amalgamates the use of different digital tools to provide a holistic overview (the entire ProDeM cycle covered in the Integrated Digital Workbook for students).At the end of the project, 5 multiplier events are organised (total of 125 participants in 5 countries) and one joint learning work-shop with about 25 Master's students from 5 partner schools is carried out in Tartu, Estonia."