The best use of ICT opportunities for educational and scientific conferences in global crises situations Erasmus Project

Project Title

The best use of ICT opportunities for educational and scientific conferences in global crises situations

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal)

Project Summary

The current project “Optimal use of ICT opportunities for educational and scientific conferences in global crises” is aimed at improving the quality of higher education in conditions caused by crises similar to COVID-19. One of the specific characteristics of higher education as a high value of the knowledge created and transferred in education is the activity for organizing and conducting educational-scientific conferences. The sharp need for education and science to move entirely to distance form due to the pandemic caused by COVID-19 has placed a number of universities that have reached a high level of scientific and educational credibility in a state of lack of preparedness and ability to maintain the level of conference events. To help universities maintain the quality they have achieved in the traditional academic standard, the partnership on this project will focus its efforts on illuminating the specifics of distance learning when organizing conference events in all components of organization and conduct, technical dimensions and recommendations. , as well as the qualification of the academic staff in the universities. This structures the project into three main activities – development of an intellectual product “Guidelines for organizing and conducting conferences in remote form” (the basis of project implementation), conducting training for teachers in order to gain sufficient understanding of the specific approach and new dimensions of quality and lastly, holding real conference events by the three university institutions. The partnership covers university institutions from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia (sports sciences), and an organization specializing in distance education from Malta. The project emphasizes the aspiration of the partners to achieve a significant regional impact along with the European challenges for general digital education. The target group of the project presents in the first place the teachers in the institutions of higher education. Upon completion of the project, the results of the implementation will be expressed in the following:
– a tool will be created to actively confront obstacles in the educational process in emergencies such as the COVID-19 crisis and the need to move remotely to university activities;
– conditions will be created for increasing the number of participants (including foreign ones) in educational and scientific conferences with a significant reduction of the spent resources;
– a prerequisite will be created for increasing the use of distance conferences in the learning process through the developed skills of teachers to include them as a teaching method;
– a document will be available – Guidelines for organizing and conducting remote conferences;
– the widest possible access to the document at European and international level will be ensured by presenting it in English;
– regional use will be achieved through translations into Bulgarian, Romanian and Serbian;
– will create a basis for objectively establishing the quality of digital conferences as a means of developing education and science;
– the qualification of lecturers, who are an active part of the participants in conferences organized in digital form, will be increased.
The achieved results of the project will have an impact mainly on the quality of higher education and communication of scientific knowledge. In the emergency of pandemics such as those caused by COVID-19 or other global crises, academics will have a much calmer acceptance of the need to transfer academic life to a remote environment. The achieved goal – created conditions for organizing and conducting quality educational and scientific conferences will affect different levels of functioning of higher education systems, and in the first place the impact will affect the project participants, institutions, higher education systems and maintenance of the quality of HE.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 152526 Eur

Project Coordinator

NATSIONALNA SPORTNA AKADEMIYA VASSIL LEVSKI & Country: BG

Project Partners

• UNIVERZITET U NISU
• ACROSSLIMITS LTD
• UNIVERSITATEA NATIONALA DE EDUCATIE FIZICA SI SPORT DIN BUCURESTI