Project name: “Boosting Digital Excellence and Aptitude of Universities in the Countries of East Partnership”
Project number: 01129280
Project acronym: BEAUCOUP
Action type: Erasmus+ KA2 CBHE – Capacity building in higher education Project duration: 01.01.2024–31.12.2026
Project lump sum: € 999 969.00
Target groups: administration and governance of the EaP universities, IT and tech support specialists, university teachers, students from preschool and schoolteacher training curricula, preschool, school, and university teachers, policy, and decision-makers, educators from different educational establishments and citizens interested in taking the MOOC and improving their digital skills.
Grant holder: the University Tartu, Estonia
Coordinator and General Manager: Oleksandra Golovko, PhD in Linguistics (the University Tartu, Estonia)
Project aim: to equip the beneficiaries with a vision and a strategic plan for digital excellence in higher education: enhance technical, IT, and digital competence in the target institutions and pave the way to developing sustainable digital professional support for educators from kindergartens to doctoral levels.
The project’s goals are:
- to professionalize prospective teachers’ training at universities by introducing new courses;
- to disseminate the experience for local communities and other Ukrainian HEIs;
- to develop strategic plans on educators’ digital competence;
- to improve partners' efficiency in the technology mediated learning environment;
- to ensure educators’ sustainable support on their digital skills development, to develop tools to boost digital skills;
- to internationalize and develop skills of EaP teachers and IT/tech support;
- to share experience of digitalizaion.
Expected results:
- Acquainting EaP partners with the principles of the Digital Competence Framework.
- Surveying the local educators and developing a “University Strategic and Commitment Plan on Boosting Educators’ Digital Competence in the Region” and “National Recommendations on Development of Educators’ Digital Competence” that would provide grounds for further digital transformations in EaP education systems.
- Adopting the most efficient European practices of digitally mediated learning and incorporating them to design and launch new and updated current courses with didactically strong digital content for BA, MA, PhD students who will subsequently employ new technologies in their work and modernize preschool, school, and tertiary education.
- Improving educators' and students’ digital skills essential for navigation in the massive modern flow of information, for their professional activity and beyond, in response to the current digital pressures and challenges.
- Establishing and launching the Centres of Excellence of Digital Learning and Educational Technologies that will sustain partners’ further skill-sharing activities and facilitate educators’ professional development.
- Developing and launching MOOC "Digital Competence and Skills for Educators", Digital Hygiene test.
- Оrganization of seminars and conferences, promoting digital forms of education for students and in-service teachers of the region
Project team
Gennadiy Vasylchuk
Dr. of Sci in History, Full Professor, Vice Rector for Research
Phone: +38(061)228-75-04
E-mail: vasilchuk@znu.edu.ua
manager
Maryna Zaluzhna
PhD in Philology, associate professor of the English Philology and Linguodidactics Department
Phone: +38(061)289-12-59
E-mail: zaluzhna_mari@ukr.net
Natalia Vengerska
PhD in Economics, associate professor of the International Economics, Natural Resources and Economics of International Tourism Department
Nataliia Poliakova
PhD, associate professor of Electronics, Information systems and Software Department at Engineering Educational & Scientific Institute
Tetyana Rohova
PhD PhD in Social Communications, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Journalism
Аlla Kurinna
PhD in Pedagogy, associate professor of Preschool and Primary Education Department
Varvara Petrosova
MA in English Language and Literature, Head of Foreign Languages Intensive Study Centre, Head of ZNU Confucius School
