"Context / background of the project:'Gender Equality in Digital Entrepreneurship' is a cross-country strategic partnership focusing on the issue of digital entrepreneurship and gender equality in a European context. This partnership is based on a key objective of the Erasmus+ programme, which aims at promoting equality and development of female entrepreneurs. The EQUALdigitalent project contributes to gender mainstreaming by developing a gender-sensitive master level curriculum in digital entrepreneurship delivering all elements according to the Bologna Reform.To stimulate entrepreneurship and innovation the European Commission innovative entrepreneurial programmes need to be developed. In line with a newly defined master programme ”Gender Equality in Digital Entrepreneurship” at three partner institutions in Liechtenstein, Austria, and Germany, four different learning courses have been drafted, developed, tested, and evaluated. For each course different teaching methods were combined with distinct gender and diversity approaches. Results of a four-step learning evaluation process are provided, while improvement opportunities and learnings are derived. Objectives:1)Develop a strong international cooperation between all partner organisations for the promotion of gender equality in the digital economy; 2)Deliver a fully engendered master curriculum for digital entrepreneurship; 3)Contribute recommendations on single modules for electives in established master programs and further educational programs that serve to empower women and offer firms and public organizations opportunities to learn and improve their ways in fostering gender diversity in design, implementation and use of ICT and digital services. Number and profile of participating organizations:Lead Partner: University Liechtenstein: an internationally recognized top-rated university, with teaching and research being closely interlinked.•top-rated owing to its close connection between study•Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR), a leading business school and most distinguished academic institution for business studies and post-graduate management education in German•Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), EU's largest educational institution for business and economics, business law, and social sciences •Catholic Social Academy of Austra (KSOE), practice research, education and training organization in the fields of social analysis, political adult education and organizational development. Description of undertaken main activities:The intellectual outputs of this project were:•01: Program design for a gender mainstreamed master curriculum in digital entrepreneurship•02: Program course material (both physical and virtual)•03: Critical module test run as elective and further educational modules in established channels •04: Evaluation report on key modules intertwining gender and theoretical contents •05: Dissemination of resultsProject results and impact attained:Gender-sensitive education is of paramount importance in ensuring that digital goods and services are designed to meet the specific needs and gender preferences of both women and men, so that women and men are equally represented in the digital economy. Gender mainstreamed teaching of theoretical and practical contents in critical disciplines of entrepreneurship, information systems and digital business management has been elaborated with real world experience and test regarding learning objectives, teaching contents, course material and didactical approach.•Program design of a gender-sensitive, interdisciplinary master's program ""Gender Equality in Digital Entrepreneurship"", incl. selected course materials•Didactic guidelines for gender-sensitive teaching•Evaluation and improvement of the tested modules•Dissemination activities such as conference contributions, workshops and publicationsOverall impact was assured through:1)Raised quality of education through the use of learning analytics and learning semantics.2)Supported open learning environments and opportunities to innovate for organisations, teachers and learners. 3)Increased open educational resources and provided opportunities to use open knowledge for better quality and access.4)Connected and innovated through partnerships for infrastructures, new products, services, interoperability.5)Promoted innovative collaborative teaching and learning.6)Opened up (virtual or physical) infrastructures of education and training institutions to adult learning and provision of modular certified learning opportunities 7)Improved quality and relevance of higher education to make it more diversified, responsive and competitive 8)Supported transnational cooperation focusing on emerging issues.Potential long-term benefit:1)Sustainability and maintenance of project results and impact through website and other project outputs and resources.2)Development of new partnerships an"

"To make a concrete partnership day to day Thus, partnerships between universities can be lived concretely, there must exist international development perspectives for students, teachers and researchers and be used in realistic manner. This is at all universities to certain groups of students with hitherto neglected obstacles to mobility hardly possible.Removing these barriers is the primary goal of the project.Here, a focus lies in example in the relevant programs of the participating universities, contained with similar learning objectives in the policy field „Soziale Stadt“ (“Social City”) to develop transnationally oriented teaching materials that cover several domains of expertise.The teaching materials are to be tested and further developed through extensive involvement of students in the context of two-week seminars with participants from all participating universities. It also contains video clips which are going to be created and illustrate certain course content under the expert guidance of students. The case developed materials will be made available over the Internet. The planned project activities will provide the following key results:• Supranational usable e-learning tools for the modules methodological and social skills as well as European integration• Supranational usable teaching materials for the policy field ""Social City"", which are very clearly through integration of professional video clips• A professional marketing to disseminate the results obtained in the project• A book publication to appear and peer learning"

Sustainable Development and the responsibility of political, corporate and other actors for solving current social and environmental problems is one of the top priorities of international organizations such as the UN (UN Agenda 2030) as well as the European Union (EU Sustainable Development Strategy) and national and local governments.Higher Education institutions (HEI) play a crucial role in educating responsible future decision makers – in their role as managers, employees, consumers or investors. The UNESCO took up this idea by promoting concepts of “Education for Sustainability”. At the same time the PRME initiative of the UN Global Compact formulates six principles that higher education institutions should follow in order to support the formation of responsible future managers. There is an increasing number of teaching approaches that are designed with the aim of increasing awareness for CSR, changing attitudes and influencing behavior of individuals. However, tools for controlling the effectiveness of both the general approaches of higher education institutions as well as the specific teaching concepts are missing. The objective of the 3-year EFFORT project is therefore to develop tools and guidelines that support higher education institutions to increase the effectiveness and quality of sustainability-, ethics- and/or CSR-related teaching (in the following referred to as CSR-/sustainability-related teaching). The expected results consist of a tool for controlling the effectiveness of teaching formats (IO1), a Handbook/Toolbox presenting a systematically structured overview on currently existing innovative CSR-/sustainability-relatedd teaching concepts/courses (IO2), a self-evaluation tool allowing higher education institutions to benchmark themselves against other institutions (IO3), a number of new innovative teaching formats (IO4 - IO6) as well as a statistical analysis report (IO7) and a guideline (IO8) that shed light on which attributes of teaching concepts are most effective for educating responsible business leaders.Different target groups are addressed by the project. Main targets are higher education institutions (governing and administrative bodies, lecturers, technicians etc.) and their stakeholders (first and foremost the students, but also companies, regional/local/national governments, NGOs etc.). These target groups are addressed by facilitating high quality CSR-/sustainability-related education (HEI and other providers of vocational training and teaching) and increasing the awareness for sustainability challenges and the ways how to address them. The six partners are unified by the idea that CSR-/sustainability-related education is an important challenge of the future and need to be integrated holistically into policies and teaching of higher education institutions. They all have been active in different areas of sustainability education and partly have been working together in projects beforehand. Each partner bears a specific responsibility within the project, but is also co-responsible for the work packages and intellectual outputs generated by the other partners. The two associated partners (Principles of Resposnible Management Education (PRME) initiative and the Centre for Responsible Citizenship and Sustainability - Murdoch University) contribute with expert knowledge and for dissemination of the results.Regular project meetings should ensure the progress of the project and the contribution of each partner to the different intellectual outputs. Multiplier events serve as forums to communicate project results and to foster the further dissemination of knowledge. A number of other dissemination activities and follow-up activities ensure the long-term impact and sustainability of the project.

Working populations in European Member States are ageing. In short, if most people continue to retire at around 60 years of age, the European labour force will shrink by around three million per year over the period 2020 to 2035 as reported by EU-OSHA. There is a need for a new and more comprehensive policy design to counter the shortage of workers in the future. Moreover in European production systems there is a growing demand of applications with arm-based robots, exoskeletons, smart and intelligent working tools, immersive virtual reality technology. All these last generation technologies if well applied have a big potential to preserve the productivity, quality and safety of the aging workforce by better powering their great level experience and extraordinary skills. The main objective of the MAIA Academy is to create a unique research and innovation staff exchange network focused on the ageing problem in manufacturing. MAIA project will provide a multidisciplinary approach to achieve objectives as: - The study of the aging workforce needs and requirements in European production and assembly systems; - The development of new design methodology to create assembly and production workspaces elderly-oriented by preserving productivity, quality and safety; - The development of new analytical models to support assembly and production line design elderly-oriented and validate them with world-wide case studies. - Design and test of new ergonomics devices in order to support aging workers during tasks, by helping them in reducing muscular fatigue and risk of muscle skeletal disorders - Design and test of new immersive and virtual reality instruments in order to guide elder workers and support them in the production process. MAIA will bring together 7 European partners and 6 Third country partners to create a new generation of knowledge towards the creation of age-friendly paradigms, models and methods for manufacturing systems.

The ACCURATE project aims to boost the competitiveness of European manufacturing companies and value chains by improving their sustainability, performance stability, resilience, and ability to manage unforeseen events. To achieve these benefits, ACCURATE will develop innovative approaches and deliver an integrated set of results, culminating into: • a human-centric Decision Support System offering a better understanding of the impact of unforeseen events on manufacturing and industrial networks, providing timely, optimal and robust manufacturing supply and value chains design, planning, stress testing, reconfiguration and recovery, and improving their circularity and sustainability performances; • a Manufacturing As A Service framework covering multiple critical supply and value chains, leveraging data space technologies as well as multi-scale and multi-level Digital Twins and co-simulation, delivering swift adaptation capabilities of logistics and production that are technically and economically viable; • an open, standard-based, federated, trusted data space and ecosystem integrating data flows, models, and tools across actors in manufacturing value chains, creating smart manufacturing networks empowering humans and organizations to share valuable information and collaborate on MAAS solutions while retaining full sovereignty over their sensitive data and intellectual property. ACCURATE results will be validated in 3 pivotal use cases covering multiple key European industrial sectors and value networks (aerospace, automotive, biotech, energy, medical, mobility). The ACCURATE consortium acknowledges the transformative potential of data spaces and ecosystems in revolutionizing business models and value propositions and will leverage these technologies and approaches to achieve impact, create resilient manufacturing networks, instigate deep innovation and accelerate results adoption.