"The aim of the project is to improve the quality and suitability of knowledge and skills of tourism (and related) major students’ in 4 universities. These will be done by development, testing and implementation of innovative training on usage of ICT in sustainable tourism development. What is more the universities curricula will be adjusted to meet the current labor market requirements by XII 2021.The achievement of the aim will also introduce the real changes on the university level (subjects’ topics, educational methods and techniques) by adjusting educational content (projects’ outcomes, syllabuses etc.) to job market current requirements. The project’s activities undertaken will also significantly improve teaching quality of every single student (new skills and competences, innovative tools for career development, increased students’ consciousness concerning the sustainable tourism development). The main participants of the project are 45 tourism science students that will take part in International Summer Schools run by partner universities (3 editions x 5 students x 3partners) and 20 universities teaching staff members (5 staff members x 4 partners) who will participate in International Academy of ICT for sustainable development. The seminars that will disseminate project results will be attended by 200 people including higher education sector (students, graduates, universities teaching staff members), government and self-government administration representatives, NGO, media and tourism experts.The most important project’s results are the following:• Course ""ICT as a tool for development and promotion of sustainable tourism development""• Casebook ""Treasury of knowledge""• A set of 8 e-learning courses for the course• Educational board game on sustainable tourism development• Student's Guidebook and Teacher Toolkit• Scientific publicationsAll the project’s results will be in English version (part of the deliverables will be translated to native languages of partners) and will be made available as an Open Educational Resources, what will enable the project to have a wider and more significant effect on target audience. As a result of project’s realization universities educational offer will be extended by new innovative training course ""ICT as a tool for development and promotion of sustainable tourism development"" which will be the reference model for further development of curricula. All the project’s results may be used by the universities in Europe and all over the world. The project will also create solid base for international cooperation and exchange of experience in the field of creating sustainable tourism between universities from Poland, Switzerland, Germany and Serbia."

Viewing value creation in the Bio-Economy sector through the lens of sustainable forestry is an innovative and new approach, but no multidisciplinary M.Sc. program in Europe focusing on the combination of sustainable Forestry and Bio-Economy exists, yet. Bio-Economy in itself cannot be considered as self-evidently sustainable and visions about the relationship between Bio-Economy and sustainability differ substantially. Thus concepts, academic discussions and political strategies need to be properly balanced and tackled simultaneously by young academics and professional experts.Higher Education Institutions (HEis) continuously face the challenge of producing 'fit-for-job' graduates in response to rapidly changing demands on various job markets. This challenge is even more critical in study programs tightly coupled with innovative and multidisciplinary sectors and technologies such as Bio-Economy or Nature Conservation. Thus universities offering students a multidisciplinary full 360 view on issues and topics of Bio-Economy have to modernise, renew and align their curricula towards multidisciplinary skills and competencies and internationalize permanently to compete on the international market of higher education.The BIOECON project establishes a Higher Education Institution network of excellence for peer2peer learning and joint academic capacity building among three European and three Vietnamese partners in the field of Sustainable Forest- and Bio-Economy involving different perspectives and stakeholders to meet the stated challenges adequately. The project actors promote ecological and economical sustainability in the Bio-Economy sector at the interface of academic concepts, required skills and professional expertise in an international arena of future graduates. It contributes to a successful implementation of the EU Bio-Economy as well the Green Economy strategy in Vietnam. The European added value lies in the enhances academic and institutional cooperation.

<< Objectives >>EUROSILVICS creates a common digital resource for innovative higher education in forestry, based on an Open Access web-based facility with educational material of the participating institutions made available as an Open Access Library for Learning. Education material in national languages will be reviewed, and translated into English to allow for international use in digital learning. The project involves 6 leading European universities, all well established and qualified in forestry education.<< Implementation >>This will be done by creating a dedicated open access platform for forestry education material, both basic and applied, and including supplementary material as exercises, excursions, links to professional websites, etc. The project includes a robust review and editing procedure for quality assurance, links to other open sources and to repositories of professional associations, and outreach to individual users as well as other institutions involved in forestry-related education.<< Results >>The tangible outcome is a consolidated, interactive repository of education material that can be used in a versatile way by individuals and institutions involved in higher education in forestry. In a broader sense, the project aims to contribute to understanding of forest resources in Europe and elsewhere, and to wise and sustainable management and use of forests as nature-based solutions for resource supply in the bioeconomy and for climate mitigation.

"The Covid-19 pandemic is pushing European society to transformative changes in technologic, economical and social dimensions. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been crucial for Higher Education Institutions, teachers and learners during the first covid19 wave. However, the forest sector is generally considered as late adopters in new ICTs due to several reasons, including that the economic profitability of the sector is very low and online connectivity in the forests is poor. Both lead to a situation where the incentives for the actors (learners, teachers, ICT services providers...) to develop ICT adapted services for the sector are low. However, the role of forest ecosystems and their management for green development is crucial. By fostering forest education, we are fostering different important objectives of the European Union by (1) enhancing online, distance and blended learning in the forest sector, (2) promoting a rapid socioeconomic recovery with special emphasis on a more resilient rural job market by introducing cutting-edge technology in forest education and, in the long-term, (3) facilitating the transformation of the EU into a fair and prosperous society with a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy.The Virtualization of Forest Studies project (VirtualForests) is a Strategic Partnership involving experts in forestry, geoinformatics and information technology representing four higher education institutions and two non-governmental organizations representing four countries. The project is coordinated by the University of Valladolid, Spain. The overarching goal is to develop and share innovative, digital-based educational tools, platforms, teaching methods and frameworks in forest ecosystem studies. The specific project objectives are to (1) strengthen cooperation and networking between partners and other relevant organizations and stakeholders, (2) promote the development, testing, and implementation of innovative open educational resources and learning practices, (3) support education and training of professionals at different levels and career development stages to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion in learning, and (4) increase the international visibility and reputation of participating HEIs while simultaneously expanding international student access to open educational resources in a sector under-represented among online studies. A series of in-person and online meetings, training workshops and intensive learning periods targeting consortium members (i.e. teachers, students and staff) and industry professionals will help facilitate the realization of project objectives. Intellectual outputs of the project represent a significant contribution of open educational resources for students, working professionals and anyone around the world with a stake in forest ecosystems or the topic of (innovative) digital and blended online learning environments. For example, planned outputs include: virtual forest tours integrated with real-life forest monitoring and training plots (marteloscopes) and associated data, 3D point-cloud and other remote-sensing derived data, augmented-reality interfaces and pedagogical framework.; International Learning Locations in non-European forest ecosystems; ""Internet of Trees” (a sensorized forest plantation as an educational product); Linked Open Data in modelling and simulation platforms, as well as an eLearning platform and modalities for involvement of “citizen scientists”; and Chatbot development for student information and buddy teaching assistant for leveling students."

The project „Bridging Generations in Agroecology” (BAG) responds to challenges affecting rural areas in Europe. Agroecology is an answer to the dramatic consequences of commercialization relationship between humans and ecosystems. It leads towards the change in food production, distribution, consumption with the respect to social and environmental justice and care for the Planet. Small food systems supported in agroecology provide local knowledge, cultivate local identity and culture, strengthen sustainable rural development. The sustainability of the food systems in European countries is now well recognized as highly critical, in terms of environment, biodiversity protection, health, and nutrition of the population. While a strong trend of aging in agriculture and rural communities, new entrants – often from different background - want to recreate food systems, practicing agroecology, and investing in rural development. New entrants often without any agricultural/nor rural background- are at the same time highly promising for Europe and poorly supported. This project seeks to support new entrants installation in agroecology exploring a determining factor of the success of installation: knowledge transmission. Organic agriculture and agroecology are recognized to be job creators. European countries, at policy and society levels, are facing a crucial need to guarantee a future of sustainable rural development: supporting knowledge transmission between elder farmers and new entrants while supporting knowledge sharing amongst existing farmers and educators.The project Bridging Generations in Agroecology will implement a partnership of 6 organizations and institutions from Poland, Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, and Switzerland:ZIARNO - Ecological-Cultural Association working in the field of education for sustainability,HNEE - University for Sustainable Development in Eberswalde (Germany),Toekomstboeren - a Dutch new entrant farmers association,InterAfocg - a French farmers network,Schola Campesina - an Italian agroecology school andSwiss School of Biodynamic Agriculture.All partners conduct activities related to adult education in agroecology.The main aim of the project would be: raising knowledge and skills in the field of education on agroecology and exchange on facilitation methods of knowledge transmission between generations. Specific objectives:1. developing educational methods in the field of agroecology, including the method “farmer to farmer” as an example of a tool used todisseminate knowledge and folk high school pedagogy2. giving an updated overview of the existing mechanisms of knowledge transmission in agroecology in our countries. as well as policy recommendations for policymakers, through a publication on agroecology and online films, webinars and podcasts.The main target groups would be: adults interested in agroecology, starting their own sustainable initiatives in rural areas like an organic farm, garden, eco-enterprise, food-cooperative and so on. We will work as well with adult education institutions and farmers’ organizations active (or wishing to be more active) in the field of knowledge transmission in agroecology. The intellectual results of the BAG project are:1. Developing a guidebook and course curricula in the field of agroecology, including using the education method “farmer to farmer” as an example of a tool used to disseminate knowledge and folk high school pedagogy.2. Creating curricula and abstracts for 4-5 courses in the fields related to agroecology, addressed to those who wish to switch to eco-initiatives in rural settings,3. Elaborating educational material for online use, such as webinars, videos and podcasts presenting best practices in knowledge transfer between generations of farmers. Other results of the project would be: strengthening the knowledge and skills of partnership members in the field of adult education in agroecology, particularly the farmer-to-farmer knowledge and skills transfer and development of civic skills in farmers community; fostering international cooperation in European network of organizations working in the field of agroecology; raising awareness of farmers, teachers, and decision-makers in partner countries on the impact of farming on the environment and climate change and promoting the environment and climate-friendly solutions in agriculture.What is innovative in the project is linking education in agroecology with methods and ideas of adult education, represented especially by folk high schools, the horizontal education method “farmer to farmer” and using online tools: podcasts, webinars and films. We believe that the promotion of agroecological solutions is one of the most important tasks facing governments and residents of the EU in the face of the challenges associated with climate change and the role of agriculture in this area.