Digital Area for Networking Teachers and Educators Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital Area for Networking Teachers and Educators

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 : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Open and distance learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

DANTE – Digital Area for Networking Teachers and Educators is a project created to support of HEI education through a project supporting digital competences among teachers, academic staff, HEI education providers and university students and establishing a cooperative network among educational institutions. Outputs will be aimed to these objectives and will help us to increase the quality of teaching and attractiveness of study.

As understood by the European Commission, the digital competence and digital skills are considered to be a part of the basic skills and key competences of all people to live and participate in a technology-driven world. It is therefore necessary to learn from the COVID-19 crisis as it pushed all of us to use the digital technologies in a massive way and we should be prepared for the future.
The European Commission also puts a great emphasis to the infrastructure, connectivity and digital equipment, effective digital capacity planning and development, education of digitally competent and confident teachers and development of high-quality teaching content, user- friendly tools and secure platforms.

The key area of the project is to support the skills and competences mentioned above and this is where the partners of the project (universities from 5 different countries) aim their activities. Although the universities are ready to provide high-quality education to their students, thanks to the situation we all are facing now with the coronavirus pandemy, the education strategies, approaches and methodologies had to be adjusted to this situation. It is necessary to provide university teachers with the necessary knowledge, skills, equipment and sources needed to smooth switch from the face-to-face teaching to digital (online) education.

The primary target group of the DANTE project are university teachers, IT staff and university management. The secondary target group are education providers, policy makers and university students.

The objectives of the project mainly are:

1. contribute to the fulfilment of the Digital Education Plan 2021-2027 of the European Commission (EC)
2. respond to the underprovision of digital education within HEI programmes. This will be achieved through the development of a set of guidelines for digital education that will:

a) raise awareness for the importance of digital education at HEIs,
b) create a state-of-the-art understanding among teachers and students for relevant digital skills and competences,
c) facilitate and catalyse the integration of digital learning experiences into HEIs programmes
d) provide guidelines complemented with short instruction videos to inspire and support teachers in teaching.
e) implement innovations in communication between teachers and students and in evaluation that motivates in DE
f) desing of necessary IT infrastructure and processes readiness for DE

The objectives of the project will be achieved through the development of the following intellectual outputs:
IO1: DANTE market research and survey report
IO2: DANTE guidelines HOW TO develop a digital course
IO3: DANTE guidelines HOW TO set up the IT infrastructure for digital education
IO4: DANTE guidelines HOW TO communicate with students and motivate them in digital education
IO5: DANTE digital courses in the fields of Business and Economics

The project will be realised within a 2-year long, interdisciplinary co-creation (5 HEIs from 5 different countries) in digital education and is expected to unfold impact across 5+ EU Countries involving 35+ teachers, IT staff, university management and 100+ students cooperating in development of guidelines and digital course and pilot testing.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 259373 Eur

Project Coordinator

VYSOKÁ ŠKOLA BÁŇSKÁ – TECHNICKÁ UNIVERZITA OSTRAVA & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DE SANTAREM
• UNIWERSYTET EKONOMICZNY W KATOWICACH
• OREBRO UNIVERSITY
• TECHNICKA UNIVERZITA V KOSICIACH
• HASKOLINN A AKUREYRI