In view of the growing phenomenon of international migration on a global scale and taking into account the current situation related to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need to rethink the models that work in practice for the integration of groups of newcomers at risk of disadvantage and the role played in them by the prospect of professional success. In modern European societies, professional success is closely linked to the quality and level of education. At the same time, the acquisition of good quality education is particularly important for the long-term integration process of migrants. Migrants face a number of additional barriers to their education. These barriers are related to the social, psychological, economic and legal conditions for adaptation to a new way of life in the host society. This means that children migrating with parents working abroad have special educational needs. In this context, the overall aim of the project is to equip future and current teachers and pedagogy students with the tools and knowledge to work with migrant children. The implementation of the intended activities will contribute to the development of the competence of teachers who, using new methods, will counteract early school leaving of students from disadvantaged groups such as refugee and economic migrant families. A detailed result of the project will be the development of materials in English describing innovative methods of teachers' work with children from migrant families, which will be generally available as a module of an online educational platform addressed mainly to people working or learning in the fields related to work with migrant children. The preparation of these materials will be preceded by an empirical analysis of needs, expectations and cultural norms in the implementation of intercultural education in primary schools in Poland, Czech Republic, Lithuania and Finland. At the same time we plan to develop a strategy for the development of teachers' and students' competences in the field of pedagogy concerning working with children of migrants. The development of model solutions (online learning module) in the field of intercultural education by project teams will be of universal character - they will be developed in cooperation between four project partners from different EU countries, where the partner from Finland will act as a leader in the transfer of knowledge and experience gained during long-term cooperation with Finnish schools. In the project we intend to focus on the issue of broadly understood educational support for children from migrant families, not only by developing new, innovative and empirically established teaching strategies, but also by increasing the competence of teachers and students of the pedagogical faculty and their knowledge and skills through an e-learning platform, where all the results of the project, i.e. the educational module and strategies, will be available and which will serve as a place to share knowledge about working with children of migrants. This platform will be a living organism that will be constantly developing as it will allow users to participate in the creation of its content and new modules. In order to maintain the highest quality of the content and education of the platform, it will be monitored on an ongoing basis by specially appointed experts of the WSB Academy and the project partners.We assume that the quality of education of the children of migrants will contribute to the long-term social integration opportunities in the host country.The participants of the consortium responsible for the implementation of the project are Universities from Poland, Lithuania and the Czech Republic with significant achievements in the education of pedagogical staff and the organisation from Finland with extensive experience in implementing Finnish educational solutions and acting as a model institution for the rest of the project partners.

<< Background >>The issues of adult education, levelling deficits, and proper functioning in society have always been taken into account by both the project leader, AWSB and partners in everyday activities, both educational and research. We live in a world of communication, faster and more efficient, key skills are necessary to function properly, including reading, but most of all understanding what is being read. Meanwhile, the percentage of people experiencing secondary or functional illiteracy is incredibly high - research, or rather extrapolations, show that it may affect up to several dozen percent of the population in developed countries - the results should be approached with caution, as different studies make different assumptions as to what illiteracy is. functional, using texts of varying degrees of difficulty, so that in one test a person could be classified as understanding the text being read, and in another, more difficult, not. The study of readership seems a bit more objective - according to the National Library, only 39% of Poles read at least one book a year in 2019 ... Undoubtedly, this situation is alarming, and one of the reasons for this is that the potential reader is afraid that he will not understand books, so he doesn't even try to start reading. Meanwhile, thanks to the Internet, we are flooded with information, often untrue, people who are untrained in the critical analysis of information sources, i.e. for example comparing them with scientific or popular science studies, are at risk of uncritically accepting even the most fantastic inventions as facts. The consequences can be serious - to today, as many as 50% of people aged 60 have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 in Poland - despite the fact that they had the opportunity. We can safely assume that some of them believed in conspiracy theories about vaccine chips, that they had not been investigated, etc .; the effect is that they are not vaccinated, thus posing a threat not only to themselves but also to the other people.Reading comprehension is a key competence in modern society. Without it, functioning is difficult, it can even be dangerous - misunderstanding, for example, a contract with a bank often leads to financial problems, as a result of misunderstanding the provisions, people fall into debt spirals, losing their savings or life's wealth. Failure to understand an official letter from an official institution may bring us problems with the law. And the failure to understand the manual and the resulting improper operation of the device may even endanger the health or life of the user ...Taking all this into account, we decided to join the Erasmus + activities and support our potential, skills and creativity in the work on reducing the phenomenon of secondary and functional illiteracy. We will create solutions that can be used not only in the countries where the project partners come from, but throughout the EU and beyond, thanks to the fact that all educational and methodological materials will also be developed in English.<< Objectives >>The main result of the project activities will be the development and testing of methodology and educational materials addressed to people suffering from secondary or functional illiteracy. Their use by educators will allow for more attractive and more effective classes, which will improve the quality of adult education.The materials developed by us will be included in the process of educating the staff of institutions participating in the project and added to the pedagogical studies program at AWSB. They will become a tool used in everyday work with people experiencing educational deficits.The activities in the project itself will become an opportunity to establish new and deepen existing contacts between partners, enabling the free flow of ideas, experiences and ideas. Thanks to joint work, the synergy effect will be achieved, creative solutions and adaptations of solutions already used by individual partners will be possible. International cooperation will contribute to closer cooperation within the EU and at the transatlantic level, thanks to the participation of a partner from the USA.The specific effects of educational activities with the use of the materials and methodologies developed in the project will contribute to reducing the occurrence of secondary and functional illiteracy in the population of adult Europeans. Thanks to the internet platform enabling the exchange of opinions and experiences of educators using materials and methodology, it will be possible to develop these tools, improve them and modernize them even after the end of the project - users will be able to modify or develop educational tools on their own, e.g. by creating new comics with characters (human -instruction and human-paragraph), translate, thanks to an open license, materials from English into languages of other countries that did not participate directly in the project.The free flow of ideas, unrestricted research and the search for creative solutions are values that are highly valued in Europe; our project will be their implementation in practice. And its effects, in the long term, will contribute to increasing the level of adult education, which will lead to an improvement in the quality of life and well-being of European citizens.<< Implementation >>The following activities will be implemented during the project:1.Meetings with partners, both face-to-face and on-line, during which the substantive content of the project will be developed (educational materials for adults suffering from secondary or functional illiteracy and the methodology of using these materials in the educational process for educators)2. Preparation and launch of an internet platform for end users and educators using the tools developed in the project. The platform will have 5 language versions (English, Czech, German, Italian and Polish), a user-friendly layout and an intuitive interface, so that it can be used by people who cannot cope with complex texts.3.One-day conference disseminating the project results - organized in Poland, with the participation of project partners, addressed to stakeholders (educational institutions, local authorities, non-governmental organizations dealing with adult education)<< Results >>1. Development of educational materials for people suffering from functional or secondary illiteracy, using comics / short picture stories. The protagonists will be man-instruction and man-paragraph. The materials will be prepared in English, Czech, German, Polish and Italian in such a way that it is possible to easily translate them and possible adaptation to the realities of a given country / ethnic group. 2. Developing the methodology of courses / training for people experiencing problems with reading and writing at the level required for efficient functioning in the modern world (secondary and functional illiteracy) with the use of previously developed teaching materials. 3. Creation of an international internet platform containing didactic and methodological materials, with the possibility of developing them, adapting to the specifics of a given community, etc. (eg enabling to enter texts in a given language in the appropriate places in comics). It will not only be the basis for e-learning, but also a forum for the exchange of experiences of educators working with people suffering from secondary and functional illiteracy. Thanks to the interactivity of the tools and the sharing of experiences, teaching materials will be able to develop and evolve also after the end of the project - thanks to the contribution of users. 4. Conference disseminating the project results - will be organized in Poland, it will be attended by representatives of project partners and stakeholders - people from institutions and organizations dealing with adult education as well as representatives of local authorities and the media, so that the maximum dissemination of the project results is ensured. The long-term effect of the project will be an increase in social awareness of the seriousness of the problem of secondary and functional illiteracy. The developed materials and methodology will contribute to making the educational offer for adults more attractive and modernized, thus fitting into the concept of lifelong education and increasing the level of education, and thus the quality of social life.

<< Objectives >>We will develop tools and trainings for HEIs, Accreditation Institutions, and their staff to be better equipped to contribute to reduction of the Gender Gap which will lead to sustainable cultural and institutional change. Through this, we will contribute to a higher level of broadly equal opportunities and outcomes for women and men across sectors by means of sustainable cultural and institutional change.<< Implementation >>1) Report based on research and Analysis of GEP Implementation and Existing Accreditation Mechanisms2) Develop GEP Implementation Plans and Guidelines; 3) GEP IP for each partner school4) Guidelines for Accreditation Institutions (GE Criteria, Framework, and assessment process)5) LTT programs on GE in (1) Business Schools and (2) Accreditation6) Dissemination events for (1) HEIs and (2) Accreditation Institution<< Results >>Results:-Report on Gender Equality in Business Schools and Accreditation-GEP Implementation Plans for all participating schools (4)-Guidelines on GEP Implementation-Guidelines for Accreditation Institutions-Training on GE in Business Scholls (emphasis on GEP implementation)-Training on Accreditation for EvaluatorsOutcomes:-Removing barriers to the recruitment, retention and career progression of females-Integrating the gender dimension in development and quality assurance processes

<< Objectives >>By implementing this project, VR4Skills partnership aims to achieve multi-level transformation at individual, institutional and sectoral dimensions, leading to improvements and new approaches in higher education institutions. Better skilled non-teaching staff will enrich and support in a more effective way the international and intercultural context of each institution, curriculum, students and lecturers, and thus contribute to building an inclusive and inter-connected academic environment.<< Implementation >>The project intends to firmly anchor development of competences of international non-teaching and support staff in European HEIs supported by the use of VR technology so that they are prepared to provide effective international services in a post-Covid era. For this purpose, thorough skills gap analysis, design of training courses and materials, online modules, VR scenarios and VR learning environment are developed, validated and made publicly available through the various project activities<< Results >>The main outcomes of VRforSkills project will be:1. Skills Gap Analysis that will allow to diagnoze and focus on key staff competences that will be developed.2. Innovative Training Design and Competence Framework enhanced by VR technology that will be piloted by staff of all partner HEIs during online and onsite learning and training activities.3. Comprehensive guidelines on how to apply VR technology and create VR learning environment into effective and powerful non-academic staff training.

<< Objectives >>HEIsCITI project focus on creating universal curricula (methodology and teaching tools) for all types of university courses to teach students the best ways to animate and coordinate communication between citizens and local authorities for inclusive and sustainable urban development in the post Covid -19 era.<< Implementation >>HEIsCITI activites:1.Preparation of universal Methodology, Tools, Guidelines and Syllabus to animate and coordinate communication between citizens and local authorities for inclusive and sustainable urban development in the post Covid -19 era2.3 pilot actions in Cieszyn,Joniskis and Stuttgart with wide group of citizens, students and stakeholders3.Evaluation surveys4.Transnational meetings in Rijeka and Florence5.Final Conference in Poland6.Comminication and Dissemination activities<< Results >>HEIsCITI results:- a methodology for university lecturers,- tools for teachers, students, local authorities, educators,NGOs involved in the development of the city.- guidelines for local/regional authorities on how to work with citizens,- 3 pilot activities in Cieszyn, Joniskis and Stuttgart- 3 described ideas for sustainable and inclusive development of abandoned areas, - Vietnamese good practice - 3 surveys taken during pilots- full teaching materials in English (Syllabus)