INSPIRED – Innovative Solutions for Practicality and Impact in Refugee and Migration Oriented Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

INSPIRED – Innovative Solutions for Practicality and Impact in Refugee and Migration Oriented 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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Migrants’ issues; Open and distance learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

INSPIRED (Innovative Solutions for Practicality and Impact in Refugee and Migration Oriented Education) responds to the need for a specific, multidisciplinary curriculum that would allow specialisation in those areas of EU law, which are topical in view of most recent developments in Europe and beyond. The rationale of this project proposal is based on three strategic objectives: 1) improving the quality and relevance of legal education in the field of refugee and migration oriented education at five European Universities; 2) the introduction of innovative learning methods in legal education such as virtual mobility, strategic use of ICTs, use of open educational resources, open and flexible learning and transnational collaborative learning, and 3) strengthening of the quality of specialized education through international mobility and trans-border cooperation.

INSPIRED involves five partner universities: University of Osijek (Croatia), Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania), University of Pécs (Hungary), Inholland University of Applied Sciences (the Netherlands) and London South Bank University (UK).

INSPIRED envisages the development of a joint International curriculum on the most acute topics of refugee and migration oriented education through the preparation of 3 sub-modules covering the sub-topics around migration and refugee law. The modules developed will be transformed into an E-Learning platform that will be accessible through open access to other universities and stakeholders in five countries and beyond. The joint curriculum will be tested through delivery of two Intensive Programmes in 2018 (Part I) and 2019 (Part II), which will involve the mobility of students and lecturers of five universities, followed by trans-national research papers of students and research results by lecturers of partner universities in the form of a project publication. INSPIRED project activities will also include lecturers and student mobility, Strategic Partnership Consortium meetings and multiplier events in each project country.

The project will result in the following intellectual outputs:

1) Development of joint and multidisciplinary E-Module on Refugee and Migration Oriented Education (with 3 sub-modules).

2) Delivery of two intensive programmes in Lithuania (C1 – Part I/March 2018) and Croatia (C 2- Part II/March 2019).

3) Joint student research papers in the area of Refugee and Migration Oriented Education published.

4) Joint lecturers’ research papers in the area of Refugee and Migration Oriented Education published in a project book.

Law students in five EU countries include students with different cultural backgrounds, students with special needs facing social obstacles due to health problems, students with fewer opportunities for mobility and coming from disadvantaged areas in project countries) will directly benefit from the project and around 300 other persons will make an indirect use of project results, as e-learning module and publications will be open to students of partner universities and externally to all interested in Life Long Learning programs. Among other project results will be increased mobility of students and lecturers, increased capacities in thematic areas and enhanced trans-border cooperation among partner organisations.

The project builds upon proven successful cooperation among partner organizations in delivering courses in the area of Freedom, Security and Justice in a form of three informal intensive programmes in 2013-2015, exchange of lecturers and students and joint research.
This project will allow partner universities to apply new multidisciplinary initiatives that multiply and upscale the effect of successful activities to a broader range of beneficiaries, ensure deeper integration of education and institutionalise trans-national cooperation in the format of a joint curriculum, so that sustainability of efforts could be achieved. It will have a positive impact on the participating students, as their access to specialised skills, e-learning will be facilitated and competitiveness in the labour market enhanced. University curricula will be improved through new methods of teaching, including enhanced digital integration in learning as well as student and staff international mobility. The project will impact on the creation of synergies and cross-fertilization of traditional legal education, of the sharing of best practices and real, on-the-job experience of practitioners in the area of refugee and migration oriented education.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 200385 Eur

Project Coordinator

SVEUCILISTE JOSIPA JURJA STROSSMAYERA U OSIJEKU & Country: HR

Project Partners

• LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY LBG
• PECSI TUDOMANYEGYETEM – UNIVERSITY OF PECS
• MYKOLO ROMERIO UNIVERSITETAS
• STICHTING HOGER ONDERWIJS NEDERLAND