Getting ready for the future! Opportunities in the future ...Erasmus programme Photo by Edwin...
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Getting ready for the future!
Harpa Sif Arnarsdottir
Policy Officer - Higher Education Unit
European Commission | DG EAC B1
Opportunities in the future
Erasmus programme
Photo by Edwin Andrade on Unsplash
Main policy priorities for higher education
Interconnected
Strengthening the strategic and structured
cooperation between higher education
institutions
Inclusive
Reaching out to all students and fostering inclusive approaches
for mobility and cooperation activities
Digital
Supporting digital capabilities of the
higher education sector and the development of
digital skills
Innovative
Stimulating innovative learning and teaching
practices to tackle societal challenges and rewarding excellence
One in five 15 year-olds has issues with reading, science
and maths
More than 40% of adults in Europe have insufficient
digital skills
Only 20% of teachers consider their profession
valued in society
Half of employers cannot recruit people with the right
skills
Less than 4% of young people has
Erasmus+ experience
Education investment continuously decreasing
Key challenges to address
Digitalisation is an opportunity
for us to do more and better
• Skills Agenda
• European Education Area
• Digital Education Action Plan
• European Research Area
• Future Programmes 2021-2027
• Rome Communiqué adopted 19 November
Key policies for Higher Education
Stakeholder consultations
➢Extensive targeted stakeholder consultations
(March- September);
➢Outreach events with participation at highest
political level;
➢Open Public Consultation on the lessons learnt
from the COVID-19 crisis (18 June - 4 September)
targeting all parts of the society.
Results of the stakeholder consultation
• Almost 60% of the respondents had not used distance and
online learning before the crisis
• 95% consider that the COVID-19 crisis marks a point of no
return for how technology is used in education and training
• Respondents say that online learning resources and content
need to be more relevant, interactive and easy to use
• Over 60% felt that they had improved their digital skills
during the crisis and more than 50% of respondents want to
do more
Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027: Resetting Education and Training for the Digital Age
…has two strategic priorities:
• Key Action 1: Mobility of individuals
• Key Action 2: Cooperation for Innovation and
Exchange of good practices
• Key Action 3: Support for Policy Reform
All actions helping to pave the way for the
European Education Area!
Erasmus 2021-2027
• New Erasmus Charter
• Flexible mobility formats
• Automatic recognition
• Revised grant system
• European Student Card Initiative
• Improved Online Language Support
• European Universities
• New Inclusion and Diversity measures
A new, more inclusive Erasmus+
• Supporting the Digital Education Action
Plan
• Focus on developing Digital Skills of
both students and staff
• Support for blended and virtual mobility
• Supporting projects to foster innovative
curriculum design and learning and
teaching practices using ICT
• Paperless Erasmus
Digital Erasmus
• Offer new and more flexible mobility formats
• Foster innovation in curriculum design
• Reach out to a broader range of students
Objectives of blended mobility
Blended mobility
Physical mobility
combined with a virtual
component
Two types: individual
blended mobility and
blended intensive
programmes
High quality online experience
• Collaborative online learning exchange and teamwork
• Applies to any study field and cycle and both students and staff
• Practice a transdisciplinary, challenge based and transnational
approaches in learning and teaching as well as the development of more
flexible and innovative curricula
Blended intensive programmes
• Develop short, intensive and joint blended mobility curricula and activities
• Both for students and academic and administrative staff
• Short-term physical group mobility abroad (5-30 days) combined with a compulsory virtual component
• Minimum 3 HEIs from 3 programme countries
• Minimum 15 participants
• Minimum 3 ECTS credits for students
KA2: Cooperation between higher education institutions
Partnerships
for CooperationPartnerships
for innovation
Partnerships
for Excellence
• Cooperation
projects
• Capacity
building
➢ Decentralised
management
• Alliances for Innovation
• Forward-Looking
projects
➢ Centralised
management
• European
Universities
• Erasmus Mundus
➢ Centralised
management
Cooperation Partnerships in higher education
• Supporting change, transformation,
innovation and development of results
• Building capacity of organisations to work
transnationally and across sectors
• Better links between policy priorities and
projects
• More flexible project structure
• Simplified terminology
Cooperation partnerships priorities
• Environmental sustainability
• Inclusion and Diversity
• Digital dimension
Partnerships for
Innovation…
Alliances for Innovation
Lot 1: Alliances for Education and Enterprises
Lot 2: Alliances for SectoralCooperation on Skills
Forward-Looking ProjectsLarge scale projects which aim to
identify, develop and test innovative policy approaches
…strengthening Europe’s
innovation capacity
Developing entrepreneurial mind-sets and new skills
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Partnerships for
Cooperation
Partnerships
for Innovation
Partnerships for
Excellence
Erasmus
Mundus
European
Universities
Cooperation
Projects
Forward
Looking
Projects
Alliances for
innovation
Long-term Strategy
Ambitious
Cooperation building pathway
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Support and sources
for inspiration
• Erasmus+ project results platform
• Search for projects focusing on digital skills and use
of ICT in courses
• The OpenU project
• that is creating an innovative European hub called
BLOOM to support blended learning, mobility and
networking in higher education
• Commission’s repository
• of online materials to support digital education
• Digital Education Hackathon
• a series of online and offline idea-hackathons to find
solutions for challenges in digital education
• Project: Innovative ICT Solutions for the Societal Challenges
• Project in a nutshell: The project brings students from across the EU together to debate solutions to
the downsides of cutting-edge ICT technology
• Filed: Higher Education
• Action: strategic partnership
• Partners: 8 countries
• EU grant: 203,365 euros
• Project duration: 2015-2017
Example of good practice: Cooperation partnerships
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Thank you for your attention!
Questions?