The COVID-19 pandemic has created the largest disruption of education systems in history, as teachers were largely both practically and psychologically unprepared to support continuity of learning and adapt to new teaching methodologies. Even in contexts with adequate infrastructure and connectivity, many educators lack the most basic ICT skills and have no previous experience in providing quality online teaching, meaning they will likely struggle with their own ongoing professional development, let alone with facilitating quality distance learning. The crisis has highlighted that there is a strong need not only reform the teacher training in new methods of education delivery, but also new teachers’ emotional health support mechanisms have to be put in place.The project in the consortium of University of Latvia/ LV, Vytauto Didzioji University/ LT and Paneuropean University/ SK aims at providing a support to educators, educational leaders and school support staff to acquire the knowledge and understanding about resilience importance in teachers, and provide them with tools to work with in order to strengthen the resilience power in teachers. Very important aspect of transnational cooperation is the experience that each partner has gathered during for the last 10 years, but within this project, the cooperation and the joint studies will create more significant results and conclusions. International setting and high quality partnership will help to gather information that is more complete on support needs teachers have, to develop a support system that applies transnationally and to summarize and utilize more and various ways how to increase efficiency and quality by improving the teacher resilience.Target groups of this project include working teachers of any experience and seniority and pedagogy students, school administrations and school support teams, officials of education institutions, universities that implement teacher-training, organizations and institutions that provide career planning and support adult further education.Planned project lengths is 24 months.The project creates a new teacher support system by applying accumulated in a long term knowledge, experience, expertise and skills of all partner universities. Since all partner universities provide teacher training and professional development for working teachers, they will incorporate the acquired data and results into their existing programs, thus improving the quality of teacher training in their countries.Project will produce four important intellectual outputs:• Teacher resilience and SEH survey methodology, questionnaire and result analysis document• Online teachers’ individual and group supervision and counseling program• Teachers’ resilience support program as online further education program and E-book • International publication on project and its results.Developed results will be available in four languages – Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovak and English on partner webpages and Erasmus+ platform thus making them available for further actions in other countries and ensuring result sustainability and continuity. A number of international scientific forums will include presentations about the project and its results. Two international publications will make information available for wider scientific community. Prepared evidence-based recommendations to education supervision institutions for promotion of teacher resilience development will provide for further actions on decision-making levels.All developed intellectual outputs will be available online free. Each university will create a section about this project on their webpages, where all materials and updates will be available, including publications, presentations and links to media coverage. All results will also be uploaded to Erasmus+ Project Results Platform.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, in summer semester of the academic year 2019/2020, the online teaching on a massive scale had to be implemented. However, research carried out inside universities showed that while most teachers have quickly dealt with technical skills of working with Internet tools, the problem was the lack of knowledge about the online classes methodology. The literal transfer of academic classes to a virtual network resulted with significantly less students activity than during traditional meetings. For this reason this proposal has been prepared. We assume that it will have a significant impact on the quality of teaching in our universities, as well as in other universities of the Transform4Europe Alliance and universities of our regions. The expected result of the project is to form graduates who - taught to be active and take initiative during classes - will become active knowledge entrepreneurs in their universities environments. The main goal of the Project is activisation of students in on-line educational context. The innovative combination of didactic methods, opened for new didactic tools, intended for implementation in on-line learning systems is proposed. This package was called “flipped classroom based e-methodology”. The outcomes of the project are projected to help academic teachers in their on-line classes, giving them methods, tools and – what is the most important – the opportunity to improve their qualifications and build a new standard of teaching. Our e-methodology will help them to activate students from several academic centers in online teaching. The results of the project will also be presented to teachers working at lower levels of education. They also had to learn how to work online and often asked for help the university staff. Methods developed in the project will be also applicable in primary and secondary schools.

One of the issues Europe is challenging in school education is high youth unemployment and migration leaving secondary education and not entering higher education after reaching the age of majority. Based on findings in latest researches the East European countries have faced huge migration levels due to the weak acknowledgments of clear vision for possible future career and guided career counseling in the last classes before school graduation. This causes migration to west European countries were the vision is less complicated, in most cases well paid but less recognizable in society (simple jobs). This limits development of local Economies of three Baltic countries.Therefore the project aims to: develop and implement innovative practices in Career Education at Schools for better motivation for Career developments in local/regional economies; promote Career Guidance competence of school teachers and Career Counselors based on interdisciplinarity among Design, Technology and Economics; facilitate motivated and targeted Career choices for learners in selected fields for targeted focus on the subjects and courses in School and selection of future Vocational Education or Higher Education Institutions. The innovative character of the project is its interdisciplinary approach allowing school children to introduce themselves to sectors of local economy industries trough inspiration of the Design industry, simultaneously presenting the complex world of technologies and engineering beside the facts of Business Economics in the form of costs and margins along of human recourses involved in the process, their professionalism levels and hourly or monthly rates they get paid in average. The last findings are of high importance to youngsters since the desired level and status of profession requires certain higher education and this leads to the necessary courses and subjects to be well acquired during the secondary education. In this way project will bring motivation to school children for better education and selection of home country universities based on the clear vision and findings of future career possibilities in home country. For these reasons Project foresees particulatization of the needs and gaps in main industries covered by the Project (Ferstry and Wood; Metal and Machinery; Agriculture and Food) in the preparation of survey of main stakeholders to respond on latest needs and gaps in Labor market; development of New in-service Study Course based on interdisciplinary among Design/Technology and Economics and Critical Thinking/Learning strategies in selected fields, publish an electronic Hand Book for Career Counselors and Class teachers for better apply of new methodology and technics in class; teaching of 30 trainers in Baltic countries and pilot testing of the New Study Course in Schools with Youngsters; Evaluation and follow-up seminars in each country to estimate improvements and Dissemination activities with Final Conference to promote new methods for Career counseling in published Guidebook for Career Counselors. Project partners will integrate New methods of teaching in their Career and Pedagogical education Study programmes in different levels (Bachelor, Master and LLL). The target group of the Project are 30 Career Counselors and Class teachers and final beneficiaries of 450 youngsters, 150 in each country. End beneficiaries are 45 involved entrepreneurs in main sectors of Economies and 15 experts involved in Career education in Partner Universities as well as 150 participants of 4 multiplier events. Involved project researchers will develop 5 scientific Publications and participate in international Conferences for project results and outputs dissemination, as well as for further academic work and improvements.

Context/BackgroundThe fast development of digitalisation, Industry 4.0 tools and working practices have had a significant impact on the performance of Supply Chain in recent years, and this will continue in thefuture. Digitalization has the potential to support contact-free operations in HEI-s and business companies, which have crucial importance under restrictions caused by COVID-19 or climate change conditions.ObjectivesTo benefit, it is vital to improving the curricula and in-service training process of Supply Chain towards digitalisation. The education of new graduates will give themthe readiness to work in a digitally supported operational environment for all fields of Supply Chains.The project also develops remote international teaching and learning environment, piloted in partner HEI-s.Number and Profile of Participants:TTK University of Applied Science - TTKVytautas Magnus University - VMUREZEKNES TEHNOLOGIJU AKADEMIJA - RTATTK will cover procurement, RTA manufacturing and VMU logistics sector competencies. IO 1 Activities. Research design and methodology, interview questions and instructions, will be prepared by VMU. Each partner will execute literature analysis as well as interviews by preparing national reports of findings.Each university will collect at least 20 interviewees from at least 15 enterprises. The interviewees include managers, human resource managers, engineers and technicians, skilled workers. Thequestions of interviews are grouped around 3 main topics: 1) implications of the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) for the technological, ergonomic, organisational and ethical changes of the work processes;2) implications of the work process changes brought by the 4IR for the competence needs; 3) possibilities of competence development in the enterprises, VET and higher education establishments in the conditions of the 4IR. IO 2 Activities. To realise the over whole structure and complexity of Supply Chain DSCM 4.0 module will be supported by AS-IS Business Processes Templates (BPT). Partner HEIs will develop BPT accordingly to the specific needs of organisations: To demonstrate processes digitalisation by applying 4IR tools partner universities teachers and students will develop TO-BE BPT. Partner universities will develop the practical case study materials by using common Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP), simulation and analysis tools during formal learning. For example, the materials procured by TTK students will be available in common ERP systems as components for RTA students. The materials and finished items will be delivered through ERP orders by VMU.IO3 ActivitiesEach university is responsible for the development of two introductory-level courses 3ECTS and three advanced level courses, supported by TO-BE business processes. Partners will jointly develop fifteen 3ECTS e-courses of DSCM 4.0 module with expectations of the labour market in the context of full digitalisation of management and operating supply Chains. Each course will have lecturers from each partner university and will be integrated into existing curriculums. National versions for partner countries will be developed by partner universities.MethodologyAnalysis of the implications of the 4IR for the work processes of retail trade, logistics and manufacturing consist of 2 main stages. In the first stage, there will be analysed existingliterature, research reports and strategic documents containing information about the implications of the 4IR for the different work processes in the above-mentioned sectors. In thesecond stage, there will be executed qualitative research by interviewing representatives of the enterprises working in the fields of retail trade, logistics and manufacturingIt is planned to use the 4+1 levels to describe the BPT:L0 - Supply Chain map;L1 - the main processes of the supply chain, ex. Procurement, Manufacturing, Sales, Logistics etc.L2 - the phases of the main processes. For example. Product design, Production planning, Manufacturing, Quality control, etc.L3 - the main activities that are performed in each process phase. For example, Preparation of Demand, Master Production Scheduling, Material Requirement Planning activities.L4 - the tasks and how they are supported. For example, the collection of data for demand calculation.ResultsCompetence matrices for the selected work processes of procurement, logistics and manufacturing discussed and updated by all partners. Structural descriptions of the changing competence needs in the analysed work processes.AS-IS and TO-BE BPT developed accordingly to the specific needs of procurement, manufacturing and logistics organisations.DSCM 4.0 module longer-term benefits. Attracts international studentsEnhance collaboration between companies and partner universitiesProvides basement for joined International curriculumTeachers provide Online international in-service training

The "innocult" Teaming Phase 1 project specifically aims to create a Centre of Excellence (CoE) of Creative and Cultural Innovations in Lithuania, The new CoE is targeted to perform research and innovation actions in line with the challenges faced in our country and aimed at promoting participatory culture and socio-cultural engagement of diverse societies by supporting cultural and creative processes of integration and disruption. Investigation and measurement of cultural and creative capital value on the basis of developed methodological approach and means will disclose the wide social and economic role the cultural and creative industries play and, therefore, foster networking, entrepreneurship and innovation potential of cultural and creative sector creating conditions for estimating forthcoming model of participatory culture. The main goal of the Centre of Excellence is to provoke innovative changes in participatory culture and provide a guidance of smart and sustainable changes for cultural and creative organizations and audiences within creative sector to operate in competitive environment for leading excellence based on investigated and measured cultural and creative processes. Therefore, the CoE seeks to promote development of CCI institutions, formation of new institutional strategies leading towards inclusive and participatory culture taking into account the importance and shifts of the economical, communicative, technological and social factors, in order for the cultural institutions and network to start functioning as activating centres of social innovations, as hubs for involvement of new audiences (minorities, youth, seniors etc.) increasing competences of culture consumption in respect to the development of CCI.