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We aim to build on our accomplishments (joint strategies and policies, mapping exercise in view of identifying good practices, as well as mobility and community building activities), by focusing on 3 specific objectives and 6 flagship initiatives that will be carried out within 8 working packages.
These 3 interlinked specific objectives and 6 flagships initiatives described above are further broken down into 8 work packages across 5 thematic areas to reach our ambition in creating a powerful academic hub able to address global challenges.
The transversal thematic areas will operate across all work packages of our work plan. They address social challenges of importance to Europe and provide focus to ensure that all work packages are working towards enhancing societal impact around the established topic of the Alliance, without strictly limiting the thematic scope. We believe in each of our partners’ heritage and by pooling our resources together, we can build critical mass on these topics to maximize our impact.
WP1 centers on management and coordination in order to ensure the successful implementation of the project and to lay the basis for the continuation and long-term sustainability of the Alliance. These are to be achieved through the:
WP leader: University Paris 8
Contacts:
Maria Kouti
Project manager: maria.kouti04@univ-paris8.fr
Rudy Akueson,
ERUA Project coordinator : rudward.akueson02@univ-paris8.fr
WP2 will coordinate activities relevant to developing and delivering innovative joint academic initiatives. Building on the achievements of ERUA1, WP2 will facilitate the set up of joint programmes and other courses with embedded mobility. It will also coordinate the delivery of intensive modules, summer and winter schools, and service learning activities, as well as the development of online teaching materials. WP2 will also expand the scope of the joint alliance infrastructure for the development of innovative pedagogies through the Academic Innovation Laboratory.
The aim of WP2 is to reinforce the alliance’s existing framework of teaching and learning opportunities and to facilitate the setting up new innovative initiatives through:
• Establishing a structured framework for joint programs and joint degrees;
• Further developing innovative teaching and learning opportunities;
• Creating seamless mobility opportunities;
WP leader: SWPS
Contacts:
Barbara Dmowska, WP2 Leader, bdmowska@swps.edu.pl Radek Stanczewski, Local Coordinator, rstanczewski@swps.edu.pl
The aim of the WP3 is to establish a long-term model for collaborative interdisciplinary ERUA research. Through the working package we are seeking to enhance research excellence and societal impact through the following objectives:
• Enhancing a joint ERUA’s research support system;
• Establishing networks of researchers to encourage research collaboration beyond the confines of particular disciplines and universities;
• Developing early career researchers internationalization competencies thus facilitating their integration in the networking and team science activities.
WP leader: Mykolas Romeris University
Contacts:
Renata Tamašauskienė, WP3 Leader: renata@mruni.eu
Regina Valutytė, Local Coordinator: r.valutyte@mruni.eu
The aim of WP4 is to lead ERUA in the development of a consistent campus experience in a wide sense. This includes:
• a widely spread and persistent sense of community across ERUA members – including students, faculty and non-academic staff;
• seamless mobility as part of the everyday campus experience;
• common standards for greener and more sustainable virtual and physical campuses;
• a common visual identity and brand.
We promote a “slow mobility” approach focused on sustainability that aims at maximizing the quality and added value of mobility instead of pushing numbers up. This is achieved through the increase of physical, blended, and virtual mobility opportunities, stimulating exchange, interaction, dialogue, mutual learning, consolidating networking and solidify partnerships, improving foreign language capacities at the member institutions, as well as some other initiatives.
WP leader: University of Macerata
Contacts:
Antonella Tiberi, WP4 leader: antonella.tiberi@unimc.it
Benedetta Barbisan, Local Coordinator: benedetta.barbisan@unimc.it
ERUA acts as an agent for promoting and propagating sustainability principles throughout society. We will continue developing and extending the three key initiatives (Digitalisation, Sustainability and Creativity) that we have set up during ERUA-1, (in WP5) in order to connect and engage the Alliance with the outside world (stakeholders, partnerships, networks, communities, societies and regions):
• the Digital Reform for Digitalization,
• the Aeiforia for Sustainability (ancient Greek for sustainability)
• ERUAHaus for Creativity (inspired from the European Bauhaus initiative)
Working on these assets, we have identified roadblocks and missing pieces for a sustainable and intercultural dialogue which we will develop in ERUA. The main aim of the WP5 is to demonstrate ERUA’s societal core values on SDGs, and join efforts with local communities and regions achieving greater impact and efficiency.
WP leader: University of the Aegean
Contacts:
Evangelia Kavakli, WP5 Leader | Prof. of Cultural Technology and Communication: kavakli@aegean.gr
George Strogylopoulos, Local Coordinator: gstrogylopoulos@aegean.gr
The general objective of the WP6 is to foster within the ERUA universities an entrepreneurship spirit in social sciences, with the potential collaboration of STEM disciplines, in order to address societal challenges related to the relevant thematic areas defined in the project.
By developing WP6, ERUA aims at:
• Increasing student employability through the creation and consolidation of university-based start-up and spin off companies;
• Connecting ERUA universities with their social environments and their problems;
• Transferring and applying academic knowledge to contribute to solve European challenges with a social orientation;
• Improving entrepreneurship infrastructure/resources in higher education institutions for addressing societal challenges;
• Developing entrepreneurial spirit in internal and external stakeholders of ERUA universities
WP leader: University Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Contacts:
Desiderio García, WP6 Leader: d.cooperacion@ulpgc.es
Jin Taira, Local Coordinator: v.internacional@ulpgc.es
The aim of WP7 is to boost student initiative, co-creation and engagement within the ERUA Alliance in order to advance democratic participation, social responsibility, and mutual (intercultural) learning. This will be achieved through the following initiatives:
WP leader: European University of Viadrina
Contacts:
Niki Kasis, WP7 leader: kasis@europa-uni.de
Geny Piotti, Local Coordinator: Piotti@europa-uni.de
The aim of WP8 is to lead and coordinate ERUA communication efforts (in physical and virtual environment) both for improving internal community awareness, sense of belonging and long-term productive engagement, and for increase of visibility and impact among external stakeholders. It will be achieved through the following activities:
WP leader: New Bulgarian University
Contacts:
Diana Kulchitskaya, NBU WP8 coordinator: dkulchitskaya@nbu.bg
Eduard Marinov, NBU Local coordinator: eddie.marinov@gmail.com