21st Century Skils: Changing the Approach to Teaching in Higher Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

21st Century Skils: Changing the Approach to Teaching in Higher Education

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Pedagogy and didactics; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Education and training play a crucial role in enabling young people to develop these skills and competences – as well as allowing them the best possible start in life (European Commission, 2019). 21st Century Skills (Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, Creativity & Innovation, Self-Direction, Making Global Connections, Making Local Connections, Using Technology as a Tool for Learning) are crucial for quality of education and training. All educators, researchers and labour market are agreed about the importance of mentioned skills but there is a lack of teaching materials and methodology. In order to help and develop skill development at the EU level partnership intend to develop CATCH-21 Century Project.

The main objective of the project is to increase the Quality of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) at the EU level in teaching of 21st Century Skills to support better understanding of qualifications and make better use of all available skills in the European labour market.
The specific objectives are;
1. to create concrete and innovative teaching materials and pedagogical model concerning teaching of 21st Century Skills for HE teaching staff,
2. to foster cooperation between labour market and HEI organizations.
3. to create an online learning platform in order to help development of 21st Century Skills for HEI organizations staff and students at the EU level.
The project consortium is during its two years funding period implementing the above mentioned aims and outputs on the basis of two type of activities
1. Intellectual Outputs
2. Work Packages

Intellectual Outputs:
During the project we intend to produce 3 Intellectual Outputs.
IO1: 21st Century Skills Market Research and Didactical Guideline,
IO2: 21st Century Skills Training Course and Teaching Materials
IO3 : Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Website

Beside the Intellectual outputs project have some work packages in order to increase the achievement of the project objectives.
WP1: Project management and implementation
WP2. Quality management and assurance
WP3. Exploitation and dissemination

The project will have the expected results which listed below:
• IO1-21st Century Skills Market Research and Didactical Guideline 20-30 pages
• IO2- 21st Century Skills Training Course and Teaching Materials 100-120 pages
• IO3- Learning Management Systems (LMS) -Website and Testing of course
• 1 short term staff trainings (25 participants)
• 5 classes of 21st Century Skills in the partner universities (100 students will participate)
• 1 international market research report
• 4 news letters
• 6 National multiplier conferences ( 280 participants)
• Social media accounts of the project (Facebook, Linkedin, Instagram, Twitter)
• Dissemination and exploitation report
• Evaluation reports (2)

Project Website

http://catch21st.org

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 235304 Eur

Project Coordinator

IZMIR KATIP CELEBI UNIVERSITESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• SOFIA UNIVERSITY ST KLIMENT OHRIDSKI
• EGITIM VE GENCLIK CALISMALARI ENSTITUSU DERNEGI
• Smarthink Srl
• FUNDACION UNIVERSIDAD SAN JORGE
• Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze
• Pamukkale Universitesi