Improving Educational innovation, competitiveness and quality of higher education throught collaboration between University and Companies. (Educational Knowledge Transfer) Erasmus Project

Project Title

Improving Educational innovation, competitiveness and quality of higher education throught collaboration between University and Companies. (Educational Knowledge Transfer)

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 : Knowledge Alliances for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The EKT project aims to improve European higher education and, in particular, the development and experimentation of collaborative educational methodologies and Smart technological framework that aims to impact on a more effective, scalable, sustainable system which is closely linked to the professional contexts for which we train. To do this, we rely on a strategic triangle configured by educational centres, universities and technology-based companies/institutions. We propose to work in an articulated way from these three contexts to establish a dynamics of knowledge development based on teaching innovation, educational research and technological development. The project is contextualized in the Faculties of Educational Sciences and in particular in the official studies of Initial Teacher Education in kindergarten, Primary and Secondary Education. With the implementation of the European Higher Education Area, ITE in Europe converges in the incorporation of a significant period of in-school teaching practice that in some cases constitutes up to 25% of the prospective teacher training. EU Commission highlights “real classroom experience” as one of the 3 key elements of ITE, emphasizing the importance of “in-school placement” at the same level of the “academic knowledge of their subject” and “teaching approaches”. A proper teacher training requires to be trained in these three elements. Surprisingly, academic policies do not generally value these three equally, and frequently, in-school placement is less valued, understanding that prospective teachers learn these skills naturally just by being placed in a school. This way, key processes to promote reflective learning of the teaching profession, such as collaboration, interaction, monitoring, and counselling processes are neglected. EKT outputs will effectively contribute to the revision and improvement of in-school placements which is a key element in ITE, as well as to a better selection of prospective teachers.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 999272,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• DIE BERATER UNTERNEHMENSBERATUNGS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
• UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH
• H2 LEARNING LTD
• MARINO INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION
• UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO
• BEEZNEST BELGIUM
• LUSOINFO II – MULTIMEDIA SA