Collaborative Platform for Teaching Innovation in Higher Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Collaborative Platform for Teaching Innovation 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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Pedagogy and didactics; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal)

Project Summary

The objective the the ColLab project is to provide teachers/professors in Higher Education with an educational resource centre and a space where they can exchange knowledge and experiences and instructional technologies with their peers in various European countries, in order to become better prepared to face the evolving teaching and learning environment in that sector. The ColLab project is being prepared at a time in the evolution of higher education in Europe when a fresh focus on the approach to teaching, in and around the classroom is called for at a political level (Paris Communiqué 2018) and at the level of practical implementation in Higher education institutions.

CoLab proposes to produce several results, including a report entitled “Framework of teaching and learning innovations: a sample of European universities”, which will provide the starting context for the project in terms of the state of the art of teaching and learning innovation at the 5 partner universities in particular and a sample of good practices from other sources around the world. It develops also a Needs Analysis, collecting qualitative information addressing the perceived needs of University teachers/professors in terms of the kinds of services and tools that they would like to have available to them in the educational resource centre. The centerpiece of the project will be a web-based platform hosting a suite of innovative teaching resources that will be uploaded by an open-ended community of users and updated continuously, providing also information on, and access to training programmes held at the partner universities, as well as a collaboration space for exchanging opinions and ideas between professors / teachers in higher education from different countries.

The ColLab Platform will be officially launched at the end of 2021 in Germany, with an inspirational dissemination event attracting hundreds of teaching staff from higher educations to reflect on innovation in teaching and learning to have a taste of what ColLab might offer them.

ColLab is an ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership project coordinated by the Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal) with the partnership of Università degli studi di Trento (Italy), Technische Universität Hamburg (Germany), Kauno Technologijos Universitetas (Lithuania) and Universitetet i Stavanger (Norway). These universities are all members of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU), a leading international consortium of research intensive universities, with collective emphasis on innovation, creativity and societal impact, driving the development of a knowledge-based economy.

Project Website

http://collab.web.ua.pt/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 169564 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO & Country: PT

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO
• KAUNO TECHNOLOGIJOS UNIVERSITETAS
• UNIVERSITETET I STAVANGER
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT HAMBURG