Innovation in Education: Intersecting Sciences and Humanities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Innovation in Education: Intersecting Sciences and Humanities

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Research and innovation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Gender equality / equal opportunities

Project Summary

The project will offer innovative approaches to higher education through interdisciplinarity in the development of HEI curricula in Southeast Europe. This represents an innovation which will improve the quality of HE in the region, it will contribute to opening up and innovating in the education process. InnEd will produce four curricula intersecting philosophy, linguistics, liberal arts, cognitive sciences and technology through focusing on research subjects such as post-humanism, gender, environmental studies. The project will also promote the value and perspectives of the interdisciplinary approach in higher education.
The introduction of interdisciplinary curricula will strengthen the overall quality and relevance of students’ knowledge, creativity, and competencies towards a more holistic education, and will enhance their transversal skills and therefore their employability.
Enhancing innovative research skills increases employability of graduates in the humanities enabling them to engage in the dynamically changing European economy based on research and innovation, in particular at the intersecting realms of STEM and humanities. Knowledge based and research oriented economy is one of the countries reform priorities supported by the IPA II mechanism. Thus this project seeks to raise students’ employability by bringing closer humanities and hard sciences and produced data.
The center of intersections are the topics of technological and cybernetic development and issues of subjectivity, post-humanism, etc., studied according to the model of liberal arts. That model is updated through the framework of intersectionality and interdisciplinarity.
The dissemination and sustainability strategy will rely mainly on digital media for exchange of best practices based on the curricula and the promotion of the model of research centered teaching and the curricula produced as outcome from the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 132918,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

Institut za opstestveni i humanisticki nauki Skopje & Country: MK

Project Partners

• SOFIA UNIVERSITY ST KLIMENT OHRIDSKI
• UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT