The "innocult" Teaming Phase 1 project specifically aims to create a Centre of Excellence (CoE) of Creative and Cultural Innovations in Lithuania, The new CoE is targeted to perform research and innovation actions in line with the challenges faced in our country and aimed at promoting participatory culture and socio-cultural engagement of diverse societies by supporting cultural and creative processes of integration and disruption. Investigation and measurement of cultural and creative capital value on the basis of developed methodological approach and means will disclose the wide social and economic role the cultural and creative industries play and, therefore, foster networking, entrepreneurship and innovation potential of cultural and creative sector creating conditions for estimating forthcoming model of participatory culture. The main goal of the Centre of Excellence is to provoke innovative changes in participatory culture and provide a guidance of smart and sustainable changes for cultural and creative organizations and audiences within creative sector to operate in competitive environment for leading excellence based on investigated and measured cultural and creative processes. Therefore, the CoE seeks to promote development of CCI institutions, formation of new institutional strategies leading towards inclusive and participatory culture taking into account the importance and shifts of the economical, communicative, technological and social factors, in order for the cultural institutions and network to start functioning as activating centres of social innovations, as hubs for involvement of new audiences (minorities, youth, seniors etc.) increasing competences of culture consumption in respect to the development of CCI.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created the largest disruption of education systems in history, as teachers were largely both practically and psychologically unprepared to support continuity of learning and adapt to new teaching methodologies. Even in contexts with adequate infrastructure and connectivity, many educators lack the most basic ICT skills and have no previous experience in providing quality online teaching, meaning they will likely struggle with their own ongoing professional development, let alone with facilitating quality distance learning. The crisis has highlighted that there is a strong need not only reform the teacher training in new methods of education delivery, but also new teachers’ emotional health support mechanisms have to be put in place.The project in the consortium of University of Latvia/ LV, Vytauto Didzioji University/ LT and Paneuropean University/ SK aims at providing a support to educators, educational leaders and school support staff to acquire the knowledge and understanding about resilience importance in teachers, and provide them with tools to work with in order to strengthen the resilience power in teachers. Very important aspect of transnational cooperation is the experience that each partner has gathered during for the last 10 years, but within this project, the cooperation and the joint studies will create more significant results and conclusions. International setting and high quality partnership will help to gather information that is more complete on support needs teachers have, to develop a support system that applies transnationally and to summarize and utilize more and various ways how to increase efficiency and quality by improving the teacher resilience.Target groups of this project include working teachers of any experience and seniority and pedagogy students, school administrations and school support teams, officials of education institutions, universities that implement teacher-training, organizations and institutions that provide career planning and support adult further education.Planned project lengths is 24 months.The project creates a new teacher support system by applying accumulated in a long term knowledge, experience, expertise and skills of all partner universities. Since all partner universities provide teacher training and professional development for working teachers, they will incorporate the acquired data and results into their existing programs, thus improving the quality of teacher training in their countries.Project will produce four important intellectual outputs:• Teacher resilience and SEH survey methodology, questionnaire and result analysis document• Online teachers’ individual and group supervision and counseling program• Teachers’ resilience support program as online further education program and E-book • International publication on project and its results.Developed results will be available in four languages – Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovak and English on partner webpages and Erasmus+ platform thus making them available for further actions in other countries and ensuring result sustainability and continuity. A number of international scientific forums will include presentations about the project and its results. Two international publications will make information available for wider scientific community. Prepared evidence-based recommendations to education supervision institutions for promotion of teacher resilience development will provide for further actions on decision-making levels.All developed intellectual outputs will be available online free. Each university will create a section about this project on their webpages, where all materials and updates will be available, including publications, presentations and links to media coverage. All results will also be uploaded to Erasmus+ Project Results Platform.

Confronted with financial problems regarding education and research, the academic environment must deal with well-defined solutions and, therefore, it has to initiate learning partnerships, debates, knowledge expertise and best practices exchanges related to the sustainability of education & research on long term. EU member states have been encouraged to reduce significantly the funds allocated for education and training, with subsequent adverse effects on quality and information access, exchange of best practices, research, etc; actually threatening the future and increasing Europe’s vulnerability to global competition, one solution consisting of innovative and efficient attraction of EU funds. Accounting education is one of the sensible subjects, for which small amounts were directly allocated. Putting under question the accounting education sustainable development, the project wants to find solutions through learning exchange with European dimension, emphasizing the European accounting education&research sustainability in the Information era, based on reduced costs information instruments. The project aims at the increase of adult education volume in lifelong learning, in the context of the new cooperation E&T 2020 strategic framework, promoting peer learning culture, i.e. observation, exchange and mutual learning on common interest experiences at the EU level. It encourages discussion and develops transparency& quality approaches to increase cooperation of the organisations involved in accounting education & research according to the employer's needs in Europe. The project has a direct impact on students, education and research providers but also on civil society-as users, since they have great impact on competitiveness, growth and employment, as Horizon 2020 goals.The project target group is:Academic staff, students, business staff as employers.Activities developed are the following:A1.1. Establishing the project implementation procedures, methods and tools to assess the progress of the project and facilitate its implementation. Elaboration of long term strategy and project sustainability through peer mentoringA1.2. Elaboration of learning materials and curriculaA1.3. Creation of an E- Network center and consultancy provision to national and international companiesA1.4. Elaboration of studies and analyses for 3 pilot enterprises in each countryA1.5. Policy recommendation writing and lobbyA1.6. Creation and updating of an interactive websiteA1.7. Elaboration of Best Practice Guide on Partnership between Research, Academia and private companiesIntellectual outputs are the following:O1. Methodology and procedures for target group and pilot companies selection, monitoring and progress management, Internship agreement, Peer Mentor Application and Peer Mentor Contract O2. Open educational on-line resources - network O3.E-Network center for consultation and researchO4. Direct research/ consultation for pilot enterprises consisting in studies, analyses directly implemented (3 pilot enterprises in each country) O5. Policy recommendation for finance-accounting graduates to stimulate the increasing rate of their employability O6. Interactive websiteO7. Best Practice Guide on Partnership between Research, Academia and private companies Three higher education institutions (HEIs) will work on this project. These institutions are: West University of Timisoara, (applicant), yDidziojo University and Universita Degli Studi Di Messina. All partners do have competence in education in finance- accounting field. The CAREER project main objectives are:Ob1. To increase the adult education volume as regards the knowledge improvement related to the CONNECTION BETWEEN ACCOUNTING RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND THE EMPLOYERS’ NEEDS WITHIN THE EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK. Ob2. To create a long-term partnership among the partners and to improve the partnership quality as well as stimulation of the academic- business partnership.Ob3. To increase the cooperation between the partner organisations involved in accounting education and research according to the employer's needs throughout Europe. Ob4. To support the development of innovative ICT-based content, services, pedagogies and practice for lifelong learning as well as to improve pedagogical approaches and the management of adult education organisations.The project intended to bring the following long term benefits: a) Strengthening the collaboration between students, academic staff and business environment in order to transpose the knowledge added value in practice;b) Provides insights into accounting profession in the international employment context; c) Increasing of the employability of the participants through directly getting in touch with international companies.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, in summer semester of the academic year 2019/2020, the online teaching on a massive scale had to be implemented. However, research carried out inside universities showed that while most teachers have quickly dealt with technical skills of working with Internet tools, the problem was the lack of knowledge about the online classes methodology. The literal transfer of academic classes to a virtual network resulted with significantly less students activity than during traditional meetings. For this reason this proposal has been prepared. We assume that it will have a significant impact on the quality of teaching in our universities, as well as in other universities of the Transform4Europe Alliance and universities of our regions. The expected result of the project is to form graduates who - taught to be active and take initiative during classes - will become active knowledge entrepreneurs in their universities environments. The main goal of the Project is activisation of students in on-line educational context. The innovative combination of didactic methods, opened for new didactic tools, intended for implementation in on-line learning systems is proposed. This package was called “flipped classroom based e-methodology”. The outcomes of the project are projected to help academic teachers in their on-line classes, giving them methods, tools and – what is the most important – the opportunity to improve their qualifications and build a new standard of teaching. Our e-methodology will help them to activate students from several academic centers in online teaching. The results of the project will also be presented to teachers working at lower levels of education. They also had to learn how to work online and often asked for help the university staff. Methods developed in the project will be also applicable in primary and secondary schools.

"<< Background >>Our project is in line with European ambitions regarding the value of education set out in ""COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS on achieving the European Education Area by 2025. European Society and Economy"" pointing to education as essential to the vitality of European society and economy. This document recognizes that education is the basis of self-fulfillment, employability, and active and responsible citizenship. Education is at the heart of the European way of life, strengthening the social market economy and democracy through freedom, diversity, human rights and social justice. Therefore, as signatories write, a people- centered policy is more important than ever. During the first-ever joint political debate on 8 November 2019, the Ministers Education and Finance Ministers agreed that investing in education, skills and competences is a necessity for all Member States and should be a strategic priority for the EU. Erasmus + is instrumental in spreading effective practices and enhancing cooperation on national and European reforms, and in promoting citizenship, fundamental freedoms, tolerance and anti discrimination through education. The same document notes that education and culture are the key to building inclusive and cohesive societies, and that knowledge makes it the basis of Europe's vitality and prosperity based on common principles of integration, mobility and innovation. In line with these principles, our project of an open educational offer assumes innovation, openness, universality and transdisciplinarity, cooperation and exchange as the basis for creating a modern European offer of higher education. With this project we want to match the activity of the open European educational environment, enrich it and animate its comprehensive developmet.Taking these challenges, our project is a response to the need to develop academic didactics that takes into account an open, universal and humanistic approach to education. We pay attention that the didactic offer of the universities participating in the project does not include truly interdisciplinary and trans-domain subjects, enabling students to cooperate, exchange and dialogue as inspiration for active and responsible participation in the implementation of their own educational projects; there is a need for a greater internationalization of teaching based on the personal, cultural and material resources of universities operating in the consortium, which favors integration and builds real foundations for cooperation and development.We observe the lack of a transgressive approach in designing academic didactics responding to the need to cross the boundaries of individual interests, the content of specialist education, areas of knowledge and customarily defined frameworks for the organization of university life, and the insufficient presence of universal design principles enabling learning by all interested persons, regardless of individual and organizational limitations. The last problem that we diagnose is the limited relationship of education and research with the broadly understood environment, including the natural environment, taking into account the principles of sustainable coexistence and respect, care and protection of its values.Therefore, our main goal is to create a truly international, interdisciplinary and modern student education project, taking into account the recommendations regarding legal regulations, organizational framework, methodological foundations of this solution, defined as the Cross-disciplinary Academic Offer.<< Objectives >>Academic didactics must face new challenges in the contemporary world, which goes beyond binary oppositions, finds a balance between the competing systems, experience online collectivism of network crowds, whose perception is strongly focused on interaction. The main challenge for researchers, academic teachers, people responsible for organizing didactics, and finally students is to go beyond the boundaries and connect despite the differences. Therefore, what we need is a cross-domain, transdisciplinary, international, transcultural approach. Our goal is to create a model for organizing didactics at the international level, to create an educational offer that is open enough to be applied in various cultural, organizational and legal conditions. Such an offer can be designed by an international team of experts: researchers representing various fields and disciplines, managers organizing didactics at various universities, teachers using multiple methodologies. Dialogue/polylogue will allow educators who create the offer and students who will benefit from it to experience the real cooperation, the benefits of diversity and social commitment. These mail goals are accompanied by following, more precise ones:1) exchange of good practices in the field of remote teaching organization in the international and interdisciplinary dimension (including the organization of summer schools), 2) preparation of a collective report containing the frame for the general didactic offer and recommendations for legal, organizational, methodical and substantive solutions enabling the implementation of this offer in various universities (the ones belonging to the consortium in the first place);3) developing a model set of recommendations for the organization of transdisciplinary summer schools;4) preparing a set of ready-to-use class scenarios and teaching materials as a basis for possible implementation of the cross-disciplinary didactic offer;5) strengthening cooperation between the universities involved in the project and all T4E Alliance.<< Implementation >>There are five universities involved in Cross-disciplinary Academic Offer implementation; they are all members of the Transform4Europe Alliance. Four of them: the University of Silesia in Katowice (project leader), The Universidad de Alicante, Sofia University and Vytautas Magnus University will form the consortium to work out the three project outputs. Forth higher education institution, Saarland University (the Transtorm4Europe Alliance leader), as an associated partner, will not only consult the outputs but also promote the project results among other T4E members. Saarland University will also guarantee that project results will be implemented at as many universities belonging to the T4E Alliance as possible and will support them in creating an European campus together.Following activities are included in the project:a)5 Transnational Project Meetings (2 online, 3 face-to-face meetings at each of the consortium members) b)3 intellectual outputs: - International University Educational Offer. Report and methodological-organizational recommendations- Good practices in the implementation of transdisciplinary summer schools- Set of class scenarios with educational materials enabling the implementation of the University Educational Offerc)6 disseminating events/workshops organized at all consortium partners and addressed to different groups of recipients (education management, academic teachers, students as well as school teachers – 60 people) The University of Silesia in Katowice as the project leader, intends to fully implement the project results as part of a second-cycle studies reform. Other consortium members (including an associate partner) will partially implement the results according to each institution's possibilities individually. Project outputs will be promoted among other Transform4Europe Alliance members: the University of Trieste, Vytautas Magnus University in Kowno, Estonian Academy of Arts.The character of the CROCODILE project results from the need to internationalize academic education and organize it in a deeply interdisciplinary way to respond to the challenges of the contemporary world. Working out a new, modern frame for organizing academic education based on virtual mobility and an interdisciplinary, trans-domain approach to teaching and learning will enable universities to educate engaged and responsible graduates ready to face the challenges of their professional, social and economic future.Delivery of all the results will be as green as possible both at the planning stage (e.g. increased carbon-free digital contact between partners) and at theimplementation stage (use of distance learning methods and tools). The selection of partners allows us to ensure the diversity that is so characteristic of today's relations in Europe and the world. All the project partners contribute to: - project management - quality assurance -dissemination on the country level - other local activities - ensuring the sustainability of project results. CROCODILE project's output and outcomes will be disseminated and communicated through several actions in order to increase the expected informed and reached the audience. All activities planned during the project implementation intend to increase utilization of the project results by the target groups, potential users and other interested organizations. The project is designed for a long-term impact and perspective that go beyond the period of implementation under Erasmus+ programme co-financing.Project activities and results are clearly in line with the missions and current actions of all partners, who will, therefore, embed project results within their operations, profiting from this opportunity to widen and improve the quality and scope of their current activities. In doing so, all partners ensure that project results are maintained and possibly further improved through current use.<< Results >>Three following project results are expected: 1.International Cross-disciplinary University Educational Offer. Report and methodological-organizational recommendations (containing indications and recommendations regarding the development and implementation of the University Educational Offer as an element in the offer of all universities participating in the project);2.Good practices in the implementation of transdisciplinary summer schools (a guidebook as a model set of recommendations for the organization of transdisciplinary summer schools);3.Set of class scenarios with educational materials enabling the implementation of the Cross-disciplinary University Educational OfferIt is assumed that the project results will have a practical nature, corresponding with the universal European values. Therefore, the project results will have a significant impact on various institutions and groups of recipients:-universities involved in the project that will be able to enrich their educational offer by introducing new, international, cross-disciplinary element;-other consortiums of higher education institutions in Europe that are willing to introduce such element into their didactic offer;-high school teachers and people responsible for organizing school didactics. The project results can inspire a significant change in the way teachers and students regard academic education. A joint academic didactic offer will give the participants the possibility to collect different, multicultural experience. Unlimited availability without barriers will allow students and teachers of various types of schools to develop creativity, openness, and education potential. Also, European universities under the T4E Alliance will benefit from strengthening cooperation which increases the virtual mobility of students and academic staff and enanables optimal use of research and didactic resources of all consortium members"