Surface chemistry and sub-surface phenomena have been played a crucial role in developing a host of modern technologies and represent a driving-force of current interdisciplinary approaches. The control of the surface, structure and morphology through advanced surface engineering and well controlled fabrication has rapidly expanded in line with the demand for emerging applications. The aim of the project is to enhance SU’s scientific excellence and innovation capacity in engineered surfaces and films for emerging technologies to the European level, by working with leading European institutes of proven capability to innovate and deliver technology to industry. Excellence will be achieved by embedding University’s activities in a network of excellence provided by our twinning partners and will allow SU access to the latest know-how and facilities, improve our R&D innovation capacity, strengthen research management, administration skills, train SU’s academics and ESRs. To achieve this aim, a 3 year project will be built upon the existing strong research and innovation interaction with our twinning partners, Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research (AMBER) Centre hosted in Trinity College of Dublin (TCD) (Ireland) and Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy. EngSurf-Twin will boost SU’s scientific excellence and innovation capacity in this critical interdisciplinary field by providing training activities for ESRs spanning nanofabrication, characterisation, materials and interfaces, advanced sensing concepts, smart materials and structural environment, nano-devices and microsystems. By linking with internationally-leading research institutions EngSurf-Twin will enhance the S&T capacity, raise the research profile of SU, increase research excellence, enhanced the reputation, attractiveness and networking channels at EU level. Improved partnership and S&T capacity will lead to new collaboration opportunities and better integration into Horizon Europe projects.

<< Objectives >>The aim of the project is to increase digital literacy of young women and mums in suburbs.Education and training should be at the centre of the strategies implemented to achieve gender equality in the digital era. Specific strategies should be promoted for the different age ranges, in particular for young women because this is pivotal to achieving sustainability, productivity, growth, jobs and, of course, social inclusion.<< Implementation >>Activities during the project:1) Creation of training methodology;2) Collection of project participants in all participating project countries;3) Trainings in all participating countries;4) Creation of digital platform for created training manual and results sharing with others.<< Results >>1) Developed training methodology;2) 60 young women and moms from suburbs acquiring new IT skills, increasing awarenes of cybersecurity.3) Acquisition of new competencies of 6 lecturers;4) Sharing of experiences and cultural differences between project participants and institutions;5) Gaining international experience.

Supporting the connection of HEIs is one of the KA2 call priorities under the ESCI, further to the European Commission announcement in March 2019 that from 2021 HEIs participating in the Erasmus programme will have to gradually adhere to the EWP standards. Another mention of digitalisation is also placed in the new Erasmus Charter for HE for which the call has been published in February, 2020. As a consequence, the next Erasmus Programme framework is foreseen to be digital in nature taking into account a gradual shift towards fully digital mobility management.The main objective of the SUDTE project is to facilitate this change of paradigm by ensuring extensive support in achieving a smooth and well-coordinated digital transformation process. The project seeks respond the challenges of digital transformation that HEIs, students and National Agencies will face in the next Erasmus+ programme.The EU Commission as the regulatory body needs to provide stability and future certainty for the overarching initiative to be harmonious and streamlined. The digital platforms provided to the HEIs must be able to serve to the needs of more than 5000 universities taking part in the Erasmus+ Programme. To do so, they need to be implemented and tested by HEIs of different structures as early as possible. A systematic set of supporting initiative will be offered by the SUDTE project which is expected to play an important role in contributing the roadmap of the ESCI with the following goals: -Determination of the needs of HEIs and NAs in the integration process through a systematic mapping-Assessing and comparing the available digital tools to address the challenging infrastructural transformation -Assisting HEIs in design and execute their implementation strategies based on evidence-based decision-making and policy formulation-Measuring efficiency gains and impact assessment regarding workload reduction-Equipping students and staff with the knowledge and skills with a view to ensures readiness for next Erasmus programme-Developing software modules to expand available IT servicesDigital transformation of the HEIs is at the core of how we will interact with ESCI in the next Erasmus programme. The EUF universities have been key drivers in bringing about this change of paradigm, and are thus particularly well positioned to take leverage on their shared know-how. The SUDTE project will bring together a consortium of five EUF partners from Italy (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico), Spain (University of Vigo), Luxembourg (EUF) and Turkey (Selcuk University and Izmir Institute of Technology).The project activities leading to achieve expected results and outcomes as described in the Intellectual Outputs are designed to allow active collaboration of all the consortium partners. The SUDTE project will be employing a traditional management approach which uses sequential phases to define, build, test, and release project deliverables, known as waterfall method. When changes of requirements (e.g. as a result of new technologies, changes in the higher education area) cannot easily be incorporated with the waterfall method, more flexible methodology like Agile may be followed to be adaptable above all other qualities.During the project all partner institutions will expected to take leverage on their shared know-how to upgrade and update their IT infrastructure in compliance with ESCI requirements. While the project partners consider their role in addressing digital transformation within their organization as critical, it is targeted to ensure other EU Universities as well as National Agencies benefit from the outcomes of the project on its completion. Moreover, through the training activities, students and academicians will be able to equip themselves with the digital skills which is necessary to cope up with the challenges the scale of the transition presents as the world moves to a digital era. Facilitating the digital transformation of Higher Education Institutions in line with European Commission’s initiative will contribute to overcome the challenges in streamlining the gradual shift towards fully digital mobility management. The outcomes of the project are therefore intended to have a significant impact on the stakeholders of the ICTs.The general impacts of project implementation are also related to increased digitalisation, modernisation of HEIs and EU standardisation of mobility management. This strategic partnership will enable a meaningful, project-oriented and policy-relevant exchange of know-how between the participating institutions. Moreover, it will spread that knowledge to other individuals and institutions through a series of project outputs in which new content can be developed for the interested stakeholders.The project aims to improve in the long-term the quality of university services, the skills of staff of HEIs so as to guide students and aims in the adoption of the ESCI throughout Europe.

"BACKGROUND Despite the efforts to combat absenteeism, which is in the vision of our school and among the goals of the European Union, 30% of our students had a school absenteeism problem. Our students were moving away from school as a result of the obstacles they encountered in their personality development and education process. This often resulted in ESL. For these reasons, we determined our priority in the project as to analyze the ESL process early and to increase the self-esteem of the students at the end of this project and to prevent ESL by increasing their willingness to attend school. This project work has been initiated to minimize student absenteeism and to prevent ESL as a result, by analyzing the process before students reach the dropout level (secondary school level) well with our project partners and creating a meaningful and happy school climate for students.OBJECTIVES- Eliminating the lack of self-confidence arising from various reasons in students with absenteeism problems and at risk of ESL through social inclusion activities, - Making the school a center of attraction with project activities, - Increasing the school's risk group students' willingness to attend school through social inclusion activities, - Changing the parents' perspective on school and education in a positive way, - Ensuring the integration of immigrant families into society, increasing their children's desire to attend school through social inclusion activities, - Developing technical capacities of teachers by combining pedagogical techniques with innovative learning and teaching techniques, PARTICIPANTSTeachers, students, guidance research experts, trainers, psychiatrists, and students from the countries and institutions listed below participated in the project.74 mobilizations were carried out in 5 LTTs and five days of training were given in each LTT.Meram Osman Gazi Secondary School - TURKEY - 10 teachersRegional Department of Education -Sliven - BULGARIA - 5Colegiul Tehnic de Electronica si Telecomunicatii ""Gheorghe Marzescu"" Iasi - ROMANIA - 8 teachersMERAM GUIDANCE AND RESEARCH CENTER- TURKEY - 5 teachersSELCUK UNIVERSITY - TURKEY - 10ITACA CENTRO DE FORMACION - SPAIN - 5 teachersScuola Giacomo Sichirollo - ITALY - 5 teachersRESULTSIn this project, 38 teachers and 10 psychiatrists participated and 4 LTTs were organized. Throughout the project, 80 risk group students were studied.In these LTTs, early school leaving trainings were given and dissemination activities were carried out.During the project, Osman Gazi Secondary School students, Selçuk University. Faculty of Medicine It was observed by the Psychiatrists of the Department of Psychiatry and the necessary guidance and suggestions were made.During the project, risk group students in Romania, Italy and Turkey partner schools were given responsibilities:Greenhouse works were carried out and in this greenhouse, planting, planting and maintenance works of flowers and garden plants were carried out. Osman Gazi Secondary School students worked together in this process by the agricultural engineers of Konya Metropolitan Municipality Agricultural Services Department.In the drama activities organized within the partner schools, activities such as telling stories and playing drama games were organized by organizing activities that increase self-expression and self-confidence for the risk group students.The strategy development and problem solving skills of the students who were played strategy games during the project increased their self-confidence and their desire to attend school increased.After the project activities, a booklet on the fight against early school leaving was created and published online in five different languages."

In the near future, the level of nanotechnology will be the indicator of that country’s economical power and countries that are able to control nanotechnology will control industry, too.For this purpose, being a higher education organization, we have planned this Project, especially for the purpose of making the young become aware of developments in nanotechnology, and of the importance of the subject, to make them include nanotechnology within their career plans.In Turkey, the number of education programs based on nanotechnology within master and doctoral programs increases constantly, but nanotechnology education is very limited at undergraduate level.Taking into consideration the new teaching methods and techniques, development of written-published educative materials and e-learning tools were planned within this Project. In this way, all of the targeted community were informed of technological developments and they were motivated to follow and make use of latest technology, in a continuous manner. Also, we believed that, through this project, the people who want to become scientists can choose consciously their area of expertise, and/or they will gain skills necessary for interdisciplinary works, they will contribute to economic development in a scientific-literate manner, and/or become entrepreneurs. The objective of UNINANO consisted of development of education materials, and bringing together students and professional nanotechnology scientists together, through workshop and seminars.Within the scope of the Project, it’s aimed that small student groups from Project partner countries had on-site nanotechnology-and-related-applications experience at European research centers of related industrial applications. Language skills development was additionally aimed throughout the Project.7 partners in total worked together within UNINANO Project:PAU was founded in 1992 in Denizli as a state university, and has completed successfully more than 20 Socrates and LLP projects.FBK,Center for Mat. and Microsystems is an applied research center that combines scientific excellence with the ability to transfer the results of that research at the business world. FBK-CMM operates in the areas of science and technology: materials and interfaces, nano-devices and microsystems, nanotechnologies, biotech, integrated systems, renewable energy and environmental monitoring.Cosvitec is a Private Body,and offers its expertise to Educational Institutions in planning and implementing training activities throughout Italy and in the EU.Technical University of Cluj-Napoca is a leading technical higher education institution in the North-West region of Romania with 13 faculties.CCS is an expert organization in instructional design and cross-platform e-Learning services and tools, and mobile applications.Selçuk University(SU) has began its educational endeavors in 1975, is one of the leading higher education institutions of Turkey, within 21 faculty, 6 institute, totally 73812 students. SU Advanced Tech. Res.-Appl. Center (ILTEK) established in 2005, has highly qualified staff and state of the art facilities to carry out research in the area of nanotechnology, advanced materials and biotechnology,and contributes actively to the growth of the region and its development.Afyon Kocatepe University(AKU) has educational activities with 12 faculties and 4 schools at Bachelor of Science degree level, 15 vocational colleges at Associate Degree level, 3 institutes for graduate education.AKU consists of several research groups in the faculties as well as the research laboratories. Department of Chemical Engineering conducts nanotechnology studies and takes part in European research projects. The project activities are 5 Transnational Meetings,2 Seminars,1 Workshop,4 Informative Meetings,2 Learning-Training Activities. All of them were realized.The main objective of UNINANO was to raise knowledge and awareness of nanotechnology among undergraduate level university students who attended two Nanotechnology courses.For this purpose, two instruments were adapted. As a result, general knowledge and motivation about nanotechnology increased during the two courses.Nanotechnology I and II courses will be offered at various faculties of PAU in longer-term. All materials and tools will be used as course materials in all over the country, and can serve not only to university students usage but also to other people.Through this project, nanotechnology, which is one of the main subjects that are supported by Turkish National Agency, will become subject to new innovative projects.The outputs of this project will inspire European students, researchers, educators, and other interest groups.Consequently, university-industry collaboration regarding nanotechnology will be improved in the future.