ADVICE project is a joint effort of higher education institutions from four countries - Italy, Greece, the United Kingdom, and Poland as coordinator - utilizing synergy between a variety of experiences.It is aimed at supporting higher education teachers in tackling their digital competence gaps and mismatches, by creating a Digital Competence Learning Hub – an open platform integrating a competence assessment tool and a complementary database of tools and resources available online. The project also aims at preparing a set of recommendations for stakeholders and decision-makers, which should help build the capacity of higher education systems for more inclusive online education. The global pandemic has faced higher education systems with unprecedented challenges and teachers with a need for a paradigmatic shift. Digital learning has become not a subsidiary form of education, but the only alternative that the educational system had at the time. From 2020 on, higher education teachers need more than digital literacy. They need a comprehensive set of competencies in a range of areas, making digital education of students equal and effective.Now, there are either self-assessment or skills upgrading tools available. Both are not integrated in a way to support efficient up-skilling, and contributing to a better quality of online, and blended higher education teaching. Thus, we want to increase the accessibility of the already existing tools in a structured way, so that the educators aiming at developing their competences are not forced to do exhausting and time-consuming research throughout the internet to identify their needs. We also want to raise knowledge of stakeholders and decision-makers to strengthen the mechanisms of competence development support.The overarching methodological principle is a collaborative work of participants, fostering synergy of various fields of knowledge and competence. The partners will be involved in a participatory modelling processes, held online and face to face. The experts and academic teachers will review and update the DigCompEdu framework to identify the most recent and necessary set of digital competences for higher education teachers. In teams, they will develop the self-assessment tool and prepare the database of tools and resources, amplified with the artificial intelligence enhanced crawler. At each step, participants will validate and test the tools with other experts and higher education teachers from their institutions. Three local testing phases (in each partner country) will lead to evaluation and improvement of the main hard result (Digital Competence Learning Hub) before its release.These activities will be the most fruitful for the academic teachers from the partnering institutions. ADVICE expects that at least 240 higher education teachers and education experts from the partnership will take part in the project's activities to design and validate the tools. Participation in testing will help them define their competence gaps instantly and show the path for the advancement of their skills.Apart from standard information transferred via partners’ websites and social media, ADVICE project proposes multiplier events disseminating project outputs: Digital Competence Learning Hub and recommendations. We will involve concrete target groups and create an international network of academic teachers and experts from HE sector through one face to face transnational conference, one online conference for decision-makers and other stakeholders, and four online conferences held in national languages of the participating institutions, targeted especially at the local academic teachers.We expect at least a 20% growth of knowledge among at least 240 higher education teachers about their personal digital competences, as well as about resources and tools available online. We also expect at least a 10% growth of knowledge among stakeholders and decision-makers from various fields of educational systems about the forms of support of the development of digital competences at the higher education level. Moreover, we aim at establishing a network of higher education teachers, stakeholders, and decision-makers focused on the development of digital competences in the HE system. In the long term, the project will help increase knowledge on the level of competences of HE teachers across Europe. Moreover, although the project is focused on higher education teachers, it may play a significant role in the development of competences in other fields of the education system, including, e.g. formal and informal teaching, and primary and secondary levels of education. The self-assessment tool may be used by teachers and other educators, regardless of the type of educational institutions. The database of tools and resources could serve as a reference point for all educators.

Against the background of increasing quantities of waste from electrical & electronic equipment (e-waste), lacking recycling infrastructure for adequate treatment and lacking know how in this field, the project LaWEEda aims at strengthening Universities in Brazil and Nicaragua in their education in the field of e-waste management and entrepreneurship and collaboration with businesses. The LaWEEda consortium consists of 3 European universities, 4 Universities and 4 business partners in the target region.The project aims at improving the dialogue between research and practice by establishing regional Collaboration & Training Centres serving as knowledge hubs and interface, thus enhancing the quality of educational products. Further this improves the employability of graduates at University level and of practicioners at CPD-level and supports sustainable entrepreneurship. Developing and implementing new and innovative educational products along with the establishment of two Collaboration & Training Centres (one in Brazil and Nicaragua each) will lead to the following results:• Qualified graduates from Universities in e-waste management• Provision of trained and skilled workers as well as persons with entrepreneurial spirit and skills to start own businesses• Increasing employability of graduates and practitioners, inclusion of informal recyclers as socially deprived parts of society, improving social cohesion• Equipping education and training providers with modern teaching tools and approaches An improved information basis on available and lacking education will be created, the Collaboration & Trainings Centres developed, new and innovative educational products for academic use and for CPD evolved.For the LaWEEda Centres business plans were developed in order to ensure sustainability. Through the course of the project a wider network of stakeholders in e-waste management was established, aiming at a scaling up of the activities to other parts of Latin America.

Supply chain visibility supported by easy access to, and exchange and use of relevant and abundant logistics-related information is an important prerequisite for the deployment of pan-European logistics solutions that are needed to increase efficiency and productivity, and to reduce environmental impact. Although there is a proliferative development of logistics-related data stores, information channels, information management systems and data mining facilities, with both international and intermodal focus, this multitude of solutions exhibits a high degree of fragmentation, due to differences in user requirements, data models, system specification and business models. This legacy situation severely hampers the optimal use of logistics-related information. To overcome this fragmentation and lack of connectivity of ICT-based information systems for logistics decision making, AEOLIX will establish a cloud-based collaborative logistics ecosystem for configuring and managing (logistics-related) information pipelines. This digital business ecosystem will create visibility across the supply chain, enabling more sustainable and efficient transport of goods cross Europe. An essential element of the approach is to ensure that for logistics actors connecting to and using the ecosystem in undemanding and has a low level of complexity. We envision the ecosystem enabling the integration of supply-chain-related transport business processes through logistics software solutions for cloud-based connectivity and interaction, in order to support more efficient collaboration in the logistics supply chain than exists today. By enabling low-complexity and low cost connectivity of local ICT platforms and systems and thereby scalable, trusted and secure exchange of information, AEOLIX will improve the overall competitiveness of goods transport in the supply chain, while simultaneously targeting sustainability from environmental, economic and social perspectives.

Increased interest in Theatre for Development (TfD) has generated critical attention from practitioners and critics but this has overlooked two unfortunate factors; increased gender divide and the continuing undervaluing and marginalisation of women. This study investigates the cultural representation of women in Nigeria and how TfD can be used effectively to empower and mobilise women's participation in development and change. It investigates the growth of local NGOs and women's organisations and TfD practice in Nigeria, the challenges facing its use of indigenous performance techniques to facilitate women's participation in development at grassroots level and the possibilities of alternative models.

Informed by the European strategy for a Better Internet for Kids (BIK, 2012) the project (’CyGen’) engaged directly with children (aged 8-13), teachers & parents in four European countries (the United Kingdom, Belgium, Denmark & Greece) in order to: 1.Explore the digital opportunities and challenges for children; 2.Develop a novel participatory design methodology and methods in order to work collaboratively with children, & teachers & parents; 3.Co-design a culturally, linguistically and age appropriate open-access multimedia education programme with children in each of the participating countries;4.Produce online open-access guidance encompassing lesson plans and pedagogical resources to support teachers and educators in primary and secondary schools in diverse European education settings to support children’s online safety The project engaged directly with 276 children, 54 teachers & 46 parents as co-producers of the digital education programme & as participants at the ME events in each of the four participating countries. Children, teachers & parents were recruited from each of the four partner schools. Local education authorities, police & law enforcement agencies & academics in each country participated in our ME events & dissemination activities. Total stakeholder engagement to date directly through the co-designed project activities, ME events & face-to-face dissemination & indirectly through digital engagement (website visits, twitter) is 955,144. The primary contribution and impacts of the project are:-The development of a new participatory design methodology and tools for supporting children as co-designers of digital education in a field that is dominated by adult-led content;-The co-design, test and implementation of digital education resources that directly benefited the participating children, teachers and parents;-The transferability of the project; whereby making available the pedagogical resources, participatory design methodology and tools on the project website in order to benefit children, teachers and parents across the EU and beyond.The outputs created for this project can be found on the project website http://cygen.eu/ and are freely available to download.