"The Silver Civic Education SCE project was based on the diagnosis that the most important reason for excluding elderly people is insufficient, broadly understood communication skills. This category also includes difficulties in understanding media and official news and documents, the inability to reach the information needed, the lack of digital skills, limited ability to use foreign languages, and the formulation of messages that meet the needs of the modern recipient. Social journalism workshops using the Internet and social media provide great opportunities for the activation and education of adults, especially the elderly. They enable the preparation of an attractive educational program covering most of the basic skills as well as transversal skills such as civic competences, digital skills, critical and creative thinking. To work on the development of communication competences in this age group, educators with special skills, experience and unique psychological character (personality) are needed.Sharing knowledge and experience and cooperation with partners allowed us to prepare an Open Guide for teachers with information, recommendations, opinions, insights that increase their knowledge and teaching skills as well as conclusions from the exchange of experience. It shows how to use social journalism methods and techniques in educational activities: obtaining and verifying information, editing texts, organizing editorial teams, etc. The guide is practical and open to supplement with the experience of other organizations and is a compendium of knowledge useful for all European entities operating in the field education of the elderly. Project participants along with educators from partner organizations actively participated in studying the real needs of older people in their communities and in the educational part of the project. 36 people over 60 years from three countries (12 people in each country) along with educators from partner organizations took part in the preparation of the Guide. They participated in the preparation of questionnaires and (after appropriate training) in carrying out research on the assessment of the educational needs of older people in their environment. As part of the project, a total of 622 questionnaires were collected, of which 200 came from Bulgaria, 196 from Poland and 226 from Portugal. All surveys were properly coded and subjected to comparative statistical analysis. The calculations were made using SPSS Statistics 22. Feedback and ""test"" recommendations obtained in the study, tools and examples are included in the Guide. The research report and Open guide for educators are posted on the project website https://silverciviceducation.wordpress.com/home/As part of joint visits, seniors ""involved"" in the project also participated in training in the field of social journalism, elements of sociology and research methodology, necessary to conduct surveys and interviews, the basics of psychology of the elderly, social gerontology and psychological aspects of learning in the elderly. They also discussed the common and individual educational needs of seniors in three countries and the profile of the educator for the elderly.Between educational meetings, international senior groups kept in touch on Facebook, exchanging opinions and experiences. The cooperation of older people from three different countries gave the opportunity to separate the local or national specificity from what can be universal, thanks to which the guide can serve not only teachers from Poland, Portugal and Bulgaria, but also teachers and trainers from other European countries."

"<< Objectives >>The climate crisis is upon us and a pro-active and decisive shift in the pedagogical paradigm is required to accelerate the transition to a net-zero carbon society. INCEPT Project will seek to empower architecture students to embrace sustainable design and develop fundamental green skills. The project aspires to prepare the leaders of the green transformation of the built environment through a well-balanced blended approach dovetailing key theoretical concepts with experience-based training.<< Implementation >>INCEPT Project aims to create, validate and implement a curriculum on sustainable architecture within the Master of Architecture programmes at the participating universities. This will help build critical knowledge and green skills founded on key low-energy and sustainable building design principles. A Climate Neutral Building Design Atelier will be established to test in practice low-and zero-energy design concepts and tools as part of an experience-based training in a ""living lab"" ecosystem.<< Results >>The strategic outcome of INCEPT Project is the closer alignment between the architecture education and the strategic energy and climate goals of the green transition in Europe. The project will integrate low- and zero-carbon tools and strategies in core architecture modules and complement them with experience-based training. This will enable the delivery of an innovative future-oriented curriculum to effectively address the need for a climate neutral, resilient and inclusive built environment."

Re:ERUA is an ambitious project developing the trajectory of the European Reform University Alliance (ERUA). In this project, we will set up an Engagement Strategy for the fields of research and innovation and build our capacity for its implementation within our Alliance We intend to eventually unite all of our domain-specific strategies within this framework, including innovative teaching and learning. The “engagement angle” is our general method to tackle the definition of ERUA’s research strategy and our way to ensure the global coherence of our strategic outlook. As reform universities, a key motivation to map our trajectory towards engagement is its potential to sharpen our critical edge, which is a core mission for each of ERUA’s members. Collaboration with non-academic stakeholders is a crucial source of renewal and creativity for us and a means to assess existing processes and priority areas of development, test new ideas and ensure that we are indeed contributing continuously to the advancement and prosperity of society. To achieve the goal of establishing an Engagement Strategy for ERUA, we will identify thematic and methodological convergences between the members of the alliance. Secondly, in keeping with ERUAs experimental approach, we will interrogate innovation through the lens of engaged research and analyse the dynamics of co-creation processes at various interfaces. Thirdly, this analysis will be put into practice to foster human capital for Europe. Fourthly, we will develop our Open Science toolbox as a crucial enabler for our Engagement Strategy. Implementing this approach in an experiment-driven methodology, we will launch pilots and study cases to gather evidence about pathways to impact (internal and external) and models that might foster our institutional trajectory. The impact of these pilots and test cases will be assessed and will be the main criterion for evaluation and dissemination.

ERUA is built on our common ambition to develop a new kind of collaboration, which not only connects universities within Europe, but also reimagines the critical and inventive role of European universities in a global context. As reform universities, we share a tradition of innovative pedagogy, an interdisciplinary and disruptive out of the box mindset, which makes us ideally suited to develop an experimental approach. We will develop an original interdisciplinary ecosystem, thanks to our strength in SSH and Arts and our connections to the Natural Sciences, Computer Sciences and Engineering.To achieve our ambition, we will focus on six key areas during the first three years:* Reimagining Higher Education and Research: we will create a common infrastructure to nurture new experiments and develop new formats for research in the SHS and scale up existing competences;* Reimagining learning pathways: we will develop a common approach to education based on project and experience-based learning. Students will design their own learning pathways and apply for European diplomas supplement, double degrees, and European diploma.* Reimagining Community: We will create an inclusive community, open to diversity and multilinguism that offer opportunities for each and every one of our - 68 400 students to follow part of his or her curriculum in one or more countries- 5 700 staff to develop their professional skills and network.* Reimagining Campus: we will propose a concept to enable a blended integration of our campuses, combining digital learning environments with physical mobility and a visible presence of ERUA within each members’ campus life* Build a flexible and participatory management structure and * Make ERUA sustainable and visible.These common goals will enable us to setup a new paradigm in which the activities of individual institutions are built around a common framework across all our areas of activity.