The project aims to implement a sustainable and effective system of distance education (DE) as a separate and independent form of education in the activities of the Eastern Partnership countries.A well-designed system of DE in the higher education institutions (HEIs) will address many important issues related to future challenges that arise in education under the behavioral, personal, ideological changes of generations and technological transformations of the labor market. At the same time, the system of DE in HEIs creates all the necessary conditions for the implementation of the principle of barrier-free education and creates a safe learning environment in today's pandemic realities.The existing system of DE in Ukrainian and Moldovan HEIs will be improved and comprehensively reorganized taking into account the experience of European partners universities. The Project is focused on the creation of institutional departments in HEIs, the development of distance teaching methods and teaching materials, and training of teaching staff. In the complex, it will contribute to the systematic design of DE, as a separate independent branch of education, which will develop the professional competencies and soft skills of students, by the needs of the labor market.The project is conditionally divided into eight stages: 1.Establishment of project management2.Background research of DE3.Development of methodology for providing DE4.Development of institutional and organizational support of the DE5.Improvement of the DE system6.Testing the DE system7.Monitoring and quality assurance of the DE system8.Ensuring sustainability of the project in Ukraine and MoldovaThe expected results are the following: 1) creation of structural subdivisions in HEI partners of DE; 2) creation of a training product for the DE training; 3) development and methodological support of educational courses; 4) creation of laboratories for DE; 5) pilot launch of distance learning MAs programs.

Contemporary politics is angry and vengeful, with affective polarization and uncompromising antagonisms posing a significant challenge for European democracies and their governance. PLEDGE interprets political grievances as emotional signals of disaffection, frustration and insecurities that can develop into either anti- or prodemocratic outcomes. By engaging in collaborative research design and implementation involving academics, policy-makers, civil society actors, and citizens, the PLEDGE project intends to offer new understanding of anti- and pro-democratic trajectories of political grievances, and to co-create tools and practices of emotionally intelligent and responsive democratic governance and policy communication that promote prodemocratic forms of civic engagement. The project will provide a framework of the emotional mechanisms of anti- and prodemocratic grievance politics that explain dynamic interrelations between the emotions, values, and identities of citizens and groups, and empirically decode the psychological, sociocultural, and political drivers of these emotional mechanisms into operationalizable measures and indicators, focusing on 11 countries and 3 major crises (pandemic, war in Ukraine, climate/energy crisis). PLEDGE will achieve these objectives through a cross-national interdisciplinary research project involving 15 partners and its policy outputs, co-created and piloted in design coalitions, will inform democratic innovation of processes and practices and incorporate emotions in the designed-for outcomes, thus improving their efficiency.

The wider objective of ALIOT is to provide studies in the emerging field of Internet of Things (IoT) according to the needs of the modern society; to bring the universities closer to changes in global ICT labour market and world education sphere; to give students an idea of various job profiles in different IoT domains. ALIOT will strengthen the internationalisation dimension of the postgraduate programme for higher education systems through the incorporation of Bologna objectives which ensure the transparency of the quality assurance systems, governance and management systems. It will also provides mobility opportunities for staff and students across higher education in Europe and Ukraine. The situation listed in Section E will change when the following specific objectives have been met.Specific project objectives:1. To introduce a Multi-domain and integrated IoT programme for master students in UA universities by September 2019;2. To introduce a Multi-Domain and integrated IoT programme for doctoral students in UA universities by September 2019;3. To provide the mechanism for intensive capacity building measures for UA CT tutors by September 2019;4. To establish Multi-Domain IoT Cluster Network in Ukraine by September 2019.Application domains for IoT-based system: Human {People; Homeland}; Business-critical {Banking; E-business; Telecom}; Safety-Critical {Smart building; Auto and Intelligent transport systems; Ecomonitoring}.The aim of Multi-Domain IoT Cluster Network is to integrate all available and produced curriculum, methodics and tools for providing training and consultancy services in the area of IoT-based systems for different application domains: Human, Business-critical, Safety-Critical. The network will be a means for knowledge sharing, exchange, and transfer. It will also promote public awareness of the cutting edge IoT-related concepts, technologies, and applications.

The project aims to foster students’ employability by developing their relevant professional competencies and civic engagement through the comprehensive tutoring and mentoring (T&M) system at partner HEIs as a response to the labour market demands. The university T&M system will function on the base of an integrated set of methods, algorithms, and procedures enriched with the dedicated IT-platform, university organizational structures, trained staff, and active senior students. In complex, it will become an element of the sustainable educational process, that will develop and improve students’ hard and soft skills, as well as active engagement in civic life.The project activities are focused on developing basic tutoring and mentoring schemes, installing T&M centers, developing teaching/learning materials and tools, training academic staff, students and mentors from industry, as well as cooperating between targeted HEIs through the internationalization of partners’ expertise, and strengthen their relations with the wider socio‐economic environment.The project conditionally is divided into five phases: 1) elaboration the methodology for the T&M system and establishing the T&M university centers; 2) development of tools for the T&M system: 3) training T&M staff, mentors, tutors, and faculty staff of partner HEIs: 4) piloting the T&M program at the regional level; 5) evaluation and dissemination of results. Additionally, project management and quality assurance will cover the whole project.Totally 4 sets of open educational resources will be developed: 1) a set of OES for HEI staff; 2) a set of teaching and learning materials for Mentors and Tutors; 3) a set of tutorial materials for Mentee and Tutee, and 4) a set of program support documents. The IT-platform will ensure the proper functioning of the T&M system, including application to the program, matching mechanisms for mentors, tutors, mentees, and tutees, as well as support and feedback tools.