"Situated in remote towns, local Ukrainian universities are often overlooked by European partners. BOOST supports five Ukrainian first-comers in their aspiration to join the European educational space and establish contacts with EU peers. The project expects a smooth exchange of ideas as the partners are of the same level and size.The EU partners will share their experience during the project's lifetime and help UA partners develop technical, digital, learning, community, and international capacity. The project’s progressive pace in different directions allows achieving high results within a short period. Representatives from UA partners with limited English skills will be offered learning opportunities in Russian and Ukrainian. Thus, BOOST will embrace underprivileged monolingual participants.The project encompasses 3 study trips to the EU universities for 54 people. Nine training courses for 411 participants will enhance UA partners' administrative and teaching skills. The project will promote student-centred blended learning, and it will facilitate the launch of 1 new compulsory course for 1240 students and an update of 62 courses for 1150 students. Consequently, these courses will improve students’ skills and employability.BOOST’s outputs include reports on university IT and tech development, update of internationalization strategy considering the first international experience, and the design of a Roadmap of support for remote universities.Our dissemination will outreach 370 people with webinars for university administration “University Digitalization Plan,” online conference “Digital Tools for Interactive Learning,” an international week “University International Cooperation and Grant Activity,"" and a new professional development course “Student-Centred Approaches for Blended Learning” for in-service teachers. The Ministry of Education as project partners will ensure the spread of the project results at the national level."

The CRED4TEACH project responds to the needs of higher education institutions and educational decision makers in countries Albania, Montenegro and Ukraine towards providing high-quality, responsive, inclusive, flexible and competence-based training provisions to in-service teachers across the educational sectors. The project’s solution is to establish the MOOC-based micro-credentials for enhancing the opportunities for teacher professional development in target countries. The project objectives are:- to boost staff skills for the development and delivery of MOOC-based Micro-credentials;- to develop and introduce national and institutional frameworks for the delivery, issuing and recognition of Micro-credentials,- to create, deliver and validate 11 pilot MOOC-based Micro-credentials,- to encourage the wider adoption of Micro-credentials for professional development of teachers and other target groups.Target groups: in-service teachers from secondary schools, VET and HEI sectors.Expected results:-46 teaching and research staff members upskilled to micro-credentials and MOOC-designers;-11 MOOC-based Micro-credentials in UA, ALB, MNE, each between 4-6 ECTS, delivered to at least 220 pilot teachers; -3 national and 8 institutional frameworks on the provision and recognition of micro-credentials for teachers;-3 national blueprints on adoption of micro-credentialing.To achieve the project objectives, CRED4TEACH will strengthen institutional capacities for the provision of MOOC-based micro-credentials through providing trainings by partners from program countries, create national and institutional guidelines for offering of micro-credentials, design, deliver and validate 11 MOOC-based micro-credentials, and promote the achieved results through a large-scale dissemination campaign. The project results will be reflected in the scope of 3 blueprints providing recommendations to educational decision makers towards a national-wide adoption of micro-credentials.

This project aims the elaboration of the policy of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on enhancing the third mission of Ukrainian Universities and fostering best practices of cooperation between HEIs and communities based on the application of the relevant experiences of EU states (Italy, Germany, Sweden, Czech Republic and Latvia). A set of activities is developed focusing on enhancing universities’ social role and boosting university-community engagement incorporating efficient models of interaction between the communities and universities developed to ensure social cohesion, resilience and sustainability.The project activities include the development of policy options on enhancing the third mission of universities in Ukraine based on actual research of approaches towards governance models of universities’ third missions; in-depth analysis of community and universities needs in Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western Ukraine; capacity-building for Ukrainian HEIs staff through the development of professional exchange program focusing on such important aspects of the community-university cooperation as resilience, sustainability, inclusion, entrepreneurship and environment, public health, and social cohesion, development and piloting of concepts of university-community cooperation at Ukrainian partner HEIs and development a policy paper and roadmap on state policy on enhancing the cooperation between communities and universities.The main project results are: Guidelines for the Ministry of Education on University Third Mission; a research paper “Models of the Community-University Cooperation in Ukraine”, 3 workshops on research methodology, intra-consortium mobilities aiming to study and share the best practices in partner institutions, 3 roundtables and focus groups on the third mission of universities with MESU, Ministry of Regional Development of Ukraine, communities and other stakeholders; development and piloting of national models of uni