Data Literacy in Context Erasmus Project

Project Title

Data Literacy in Context

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: Research and innovation; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

DaLiCo – Data Literacy in Context – is focusing on increasing the visibility, quality and usage of existing Data Literacy activities at the participating universities. Subsequently, the project partners will develop collaboration and infrastructures between departments, institutions and external partners to encourage the building of a Data Literacy community for conveying Data Literacy competencies and thus, (i) contribute to a cultural change at the participating institutions regarding student’s and lecturer’s attitudes towards Data Literacy and openness, (ii) enable lecturers and students to develop custom-tailored procedures to successfully deal with data in their specific domain and (iii) significantly increase lecturer’s and student’s data competences and thus increase their academic success and qualify them for a successful career by adapting to the growing needs for Data Literacy competencies in the increasingly data driven job markets. The above mentioned objectives especially contribute to the implementation of European policies such as the Renewed EU agenda for higher education (COM(2017) 247), the Digital Education Plan (COM(2018) 22) and the New Skills Agenda for Europe (COM(2016) 381).

For ensuring that all of the ambitious objectives are achieved, the project DaLiCo develops a set of five interconnected activities. Therefore, the following distinctive Intellectual Outputs will result:
(i) Data Literacy Map – which will visualize existing competencies and personal expertise including resources, projects and good practice examples.
(ii) Train-the-Trainer concept – including training handbook, e-leaning material and teachers’ notes. Learning material will be conceptualized and designed in a way which allows a modular use. Modules will address generic Data Literacy competencies such as data culture, data ethics and critical thinking and will incorporate country specific views experiences, approaches and perspectives.
(iii) Data Literacy Learning space – concept for the relevant content and components including implementation of a Data Learning Lab.
(iv) Data Literacy measurement and assessment tool – which will assists in mapping individual existing Data Literacy skills and which will help to identify potential gaps.
(v) Pilot concept for local implementation of international Data Literacy standard – including corresponding recommendations of how to incorporate various local conditions.

This strategic partnership consists of four European Universities of Applied Sciences from Germany, the Netherlands, Hungary and Spain focusing on students of all disciplines and lecturers. During the project three LTT events in the form of summer schools on Data Literacy will be organised, each focusing on a different topic and taking place at different locations (Germany, Netherlands, Hungary). In the course of these international summer schools students and lecturers will work on a number of generic Data Literacy issues e.g. “Evaluation and Ensuring Quality of Data and Sources”, “Data Manipulation” or “Data Interpretation” within a specific context and in a cooperative manner. Specific contexts within the summer schools are open government data, health data and research data and open science. In addition to input from external experts, students – cooperating in international teams – are also actively involved in working on different problems thus, the participating students will develop solutions and present them.
The most important results are enhanced students’ and teachers’ Data Literacy competences. Students as well as teachers will develop increasing Data Literacy competencies within their courses, through self paced learning activities in the learning lab and by attending additional training activities. This will enlarge student’s ability of collaborative learning, critical thinking, solving highly interdepend and complex problems.
DaLiCo also aims at establishing regional and international Data Literacy networks consisting of stakeholders from the business world, politicians and authorities and at raising awareness of data competencies for a broader audience and by multiplier events. Two multiplier events are envisaged during the duration of the project. The first focuses on educational aspects (e.g. Data Literacy training) and the second on results, best practice and lessons learned.

Consequently, all of DaLiCo’s results will be maintained and updated after the end of the EU funding. The Data Learning Lab will pass over into the respective IT- and service infrastructures of the participating universities to warrant the update of the used hard- and software on a regular basis after the project has finished. The virtual learning space remains accessible and will serve as a space where actual, current content will be made available. All project results and outputs will be made available and accessible free of charge in an Open Access repository which will ensure long-term storage of all materials.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 331755 Eur

Project Coordinator

HOCHSCHULE FUR ANGEWANDTE WISSENSCHAFTEN HAMBURG & Country: DE

Project Partners

• DEBRECENI EGYETEM
• Stichting Hogeschool Utrecht
• UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA