Project title: The Universities’ Reaction to Big Obstructions: Building Resilient Higher Education to Respond and Manage Societal Crises
Project number: 101129315
Project acronym: TURBO
Call: ERASMUS-EDU-2023-CBHE
Topic: ERASMUS-EDU-2023-CBHE-STRAND-2
Type of action: ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants
Granting authority: European Education and Culture Executive Agency
Project duration: 01.01.2024 – 31.12.2026
Erasmus+ (CBHE) grant amount: 799 997.00 EUR
Target groups:
Ukrainian HEIs. Final beneficiaries are IDPs with graduate education searching for work, who will benefit from academic retraining in Ukrainian HEIs. This is expected to lead to better employment and integration into the local society, where IDPs had to resettle due to the war.
Grant holder:
NORD UNIVERSITY (Norway), Universitetsalleen 11, Bodo 8026, Norway
https://www.nord.no
Project leader - Anatoli Bourmistrov, PhD, Professor
[email protected]
Institutional Coordinator - Veronika Vakulenko, PhD, Assoc.Prof.
[email protected]
Partnership:
- Akademia Leona Kozminskiego, Poland
- International Charitable Foundation for Social Adaptation, Ukraine
- Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine
- Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine
- West Ukrainian National University, Ukraine
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
- Chernihiv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine
- South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D.Ushynsky, Ukraine
- Vinnytsia National Technical University, Ukraine
- Norwegian-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce, Norway
- Polsko-Ukrainska Izba Gospodarcza, Poland
Project goals and objectives:
Wider objective:
to increase Ukrainian HEIs’ resilience, preparedness and responsiveness, by building their capacities, improving competencies, and sharing experience
Specific project objectives:
- Improve and build Ukrainian HEIs’ capacity to provide more flexible educational offers, relevant to the labour market and practice-oriented, in the business and management field, for faster integration into the EU educational space.
- Contribute to re-placing IDPs into new local communities through retraining and social adaptation.
- Share experience on the retraining and social adaptation of IDPs within Ukraine and internationally.
- Improve the Ukrainian system’s regulatory framework for HE through the recognition of micro-credentials as part of lifelong learning practices at universities.
- Facilitate cooperation between multiple actors, to ensure social inclusiveness, increased employability of students, and quality of HE during times of social crisis.
Activities:
- Training of at least 56 Ukrainian HEIs’ representatives in creating, running and assessing educational programmes.
- 7 educational programmes in business and management based on the micro-credentials approach developed and tested in 7 Ukrainian regions, through the professional training and social integration of at least 350 IDPs.
- Educational environment enhancing and making it more inclusive via new digital solutions and equipment.
- Purchasing and installing of equipment.
- Scientific follow-up of the project (programme assessment, identification, and dissemination of best practices).
- Project results disseminated. Transfer of best practices via conferences, roundtables.
Project coordinator in Ukraine
International Charitable Foundation for Social Adaptation
https://ifsa.kiev.ua/
Institutional Coordinator - Olga Filina, [email protected]
Partners from Ukraine:
Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
http://www.chnu.edu.ua/
Institutional Coordinator - Oleksandr Saienko, [email protected]
Lviv Polytechnic National University
https://lpnu.ua/
Institutional Coordinator - Tetiana Shapovalova, [email protected]
West Ukrainian National University
https://www.wunu.edu.ua/
Institutional Coordinator - Yuliia Voityshyn, [email protected]
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
https://knu.ua/
Institutional Coordinator - Mariya Knir, [email protected]
Chernihiv Polytechnic National University
https://stu.cn.ua/
Institutional Coordinator - Kateryna Maksom, [email protected]
South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D.Ushynsky
https://www.pdpu.edu.ua/
Institutional Coordinator - Andrii Nachev, [email protected]
Vinnytsia National Technical University
https://vntu.edu.ua/
Institutional Coordinator - Iryna Yepifanova, [email protected]
This project has received funding from the European Union (ERASMUS-EDU-2023-CBHE) under grant agreement No 101129315.