Adaptive learning environment for competence in economic and societal impacts of local weather, air quality and climate Erasmus Project

Project Title

Adaptive learning environment for competence in economic and societal impacts of local weather, air quality and climate

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 : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The project aims at building capacity at universities in Ukraine and Russia for improving the educational level of society in the area of local weather, air quality and climate change impacts on modern life towards more resilient social and economic development.To that end the following specific objectives are set:• To develop educational content for the learning environment on economic and societal impacts of local weather, air quality and climate targeted at university students, hydrometeorology professionals, and managers at weather-sensitive enterprises and public bodies• To develop hardware and software components of the learning environment and integrate them with educational content• To test the integrated learning environment in a university, professional update, and sectoral settings• To design a commercialisation strategy for the adaptive integrated learning environment systemThe project will have the following impacts: • An adaptive learning environment will be developed allowing various types of learners to increase competence in the field of local weather, air quality and climate impacts on economy and society• The Ukrainian and Russian consortium universities will become in a position to commercialise the developed adaptive integrated learning environment and to further develop local weather, air quality and climate services on its basis for target groups rangring from whole sectors of economy to schools and private individuals. Such services will help building more resilient economic and social systems

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 968407 Eur

Project Coordinator

HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO & Country: FI

Project Partners

• RUSSIAN STATE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
• STATE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION KHERSON STATE AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY
• ODESSA STATE ENVIRONMENTAL UNIVERSITY
• TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV
• NIZHEGORODSKIY GOSUDARSTVENNIY UNIVERSITET IM N.I. LOBACHEVSKOGO
• AGRAREN UNIVERSITET – PLOVDIV
• FEDERAL STATE BUDGETARY EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION ADVANCED TRAINING INSTITUTE OF MANAGERIAL WORKERS AND SPECIALISTS FEDERAL SERVICE FOR HYDROMETEOROLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING