DigitalSoftSkills@UlyssEUS Erasmus Project

Project Title

DigitalSoftSkills@UlyssEUS

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: Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits); ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

Digital technology is changing people’s lives and is having a massive impact on education, on the labour market, and on the type of skills needed in the economy and society. Over the past decades, some initiatives have emerged on using digital technologies to provide education and training, but they were limited in scale as there was not a clear incentive for a systemic change and only few educators took the opportunity to use digital technology to support their teaching and to adapt pedagogy.

The COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the change and exposed the shortcomings that need to be tackled in order to reach effective digital education.

The pandemic has not only limited the way people can relate to each other and perform their most basic every-day-tasks, but has also had a significant impact on the regular delivery of education and brought new challenges. On one hand, it makes us rethink the actual education and training systems to fit in the digital era and on the other hand it makes us rethink to which extent they meet the demands of a rapidly changing and increasingly digital world.

Besides that, the D2S@UlyssEUs partners are involved in the European University “UlyssEUs” which committed in its Mission Statement to be fully engaged in Digital Transformation and specially in Digital Education transformation through the development of a European Virtual Campus.

Considering all these factors, the D2S@UlyssEUs project, proposed by the UlyssEUs Alliance, aims to modernise education, adapt pedagogies and upgrade educators’ digital competencies by harnessing digital technologies for learning. It seeks also to equip all learners with digital transversal skills to live, work, learn and thrive in a world increasingly mediated by digital technologies, and it uses digital technology for the recognition and validation of these skills thanks to Open Badges.

The main target groups of D2S@UlyssEUs encompass:
– Academic staff members
– Students, including with special needs/disabilities
-Partners’ institutions and their ecosystem

With a duration of 24 months, D2S@UlyssEUs project will achieve the following intellectual outputs:

IO1: Fostering a high performing digital education ecosystem , which seeks to upgrade digital pedagogical competences of educators in order to deliver high quality inclusive digital education and to ensure that all learners can participate actively in digital education.

IO2 Enhancing students’ Digital Soft skills, aiming at developing transversal skills that therefore provide competitive advantages for students entering the labour market

IO3 Creating the “UlyssEUs Digital Soft Skills Passports” , allowing participants to the online courses to translate their learning experiences into skills and bring to the fore these competences on the labour market

Project outcomes and activities will have impact at local, national, european and international levels. They will fully support the agenda of developing high quality and inclusive education and training for learners. Educators will acquire new competences and knowledge about distance learning’ pedagogical tools, therefore facilitating more personalised, flexible and student-centred learning. On the other hand, the project will impact students employability as they will develop key, transversal and digital competences providing competitive advantages for students entering the labour market. Partner institutions will also benefit from the D2S@UlyssEUs project by improving capacities, extending course catalogues, sharing food practices and fostring cooperation opportunities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 298516 Eur

Project Coordinator

Université Côte d’Azur & Country: FR

Project Partners

• UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA
• HAAGA-HELIA AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA
• MCI MANAGEMENT CENTER INNSBRUCK INTERNATIONALE HOCHSCHULE GMBH
• TECHNICKA UNIVERZITA V KOSICIACH