Teaching Institutional Resilience and Prompt Reaction to Crisis: Good Governance Experiences in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Teaching Institutional Resilience and Prompt Reaction to Crisis: Good Governance Experiences in Europe

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The project Teaching Institutional Resilience and Prompt Reaction to Crisis: Good Governance Experiences in Europe (TERRAGOV), contributes to knowledge creation of good governance. It educates participants on the optimal ways to build institutional resilience through collaboration of both public and private actors in society. The project brings a new approach to participation of students as future actors at the national level, European and global business ecosystem. That is aligned with the goals of the Bologna Agenda (BA), to improve quality and relevance of higher education by providing necessary resources and skills.
The quest for good governance and institutional resilience is no longer a prerequisite of some countries, but of all, and as such, the more inclusive and international the project, the more widely applicable can its concepts become. In this project the partnering Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) provide a uniquely diverse perspective on the institutional context. With both new and old EU member states, both Nordic and Southern European countries, the TERRAGOV project aims to foster academic internationalization, while identifying common elements of institutional design and practice. By bridging different national experiences, the project team will create teaching deliverables that offer common solutions to contemporary common problems.
The methodology applied in the TERRAGOV project presents an innovative approach in the digital era, as the courses are delivered both in-person and via online platforms. This type of blended learning will facilitate a better acquisition of concepts through interactive participation of international groups. Activities will group participants from different partner institutions to enhance the collaborative nature of the Erasmus exchanges. It also includes an innovative output in the form of an online simulation on the effect of crises on the business environment in different countries. Case studies will be created and included as content in an simulation game. By that way a broader understanding of challenges of the international business environment is developed amongst students. The TERRAGOV project is the evaluation of best practices in blended learning. Vast majority of HEIs switched to online teaching during the COVID-19 crisis, hence it is more important than ever to pinpoint good practices in the field of online learning.
The project‘s topic of good governance and institutional resilience aims to experiment with the sequencing of online and offline teaching and to test the impact of each approach. This will allow for an understanding of an optimal approach to diverse, international student audiences, what motivates them and facilitates their knowledge acquisition, long after the project is done. Furthermore, after the project completion, the TERRAGOV consortium partners intend to continue their collaboration and work together to further develop and consolidate the achieved results by further applying for future Erasmus+ projects funding. The combination of the six partners; University of Iceland, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, University of Zagreb, Vilnius University, the Complutense University of Madrid and Omega Trust in Buharest, fosters a civic engagement on the part of both public and private sector actors. It will promote internationalization through the collaborative knowledge production at both the level of the academic staff and the student target groups.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 262520 Eur

Project Coordinator

HASKOLI ISLANDS & Country: IS

Project Partners

• SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU
• UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID
• VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETAS
• ACADEMIA DE STUDII ECONOMICE DIN BUCURESTI
• OMEGA TRUST SRL