ULYSSEUS ALLIANCE PARTNERS

Ulysseus partners act together for digital learning

Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, in Finland, is a strongly business-orientated university that focuses on cooperation, entrepreneurship, innovation and internationality. Haaga-Helia has vast experience in distance, blended and online learning training. Its approach is a future-oriented understanding of professional pedagogy and the ability to construct working-life relevant education, based on learner-centred ideology.

The Technical University of Košice, in Slovakia, closely cooperates with private sector and industrial organisations throughout the region and is a leading institution in the field of regional development. TUKE is committed to provide several inclusion activities in line with rising internalisation, virtual mobilities via e-learning and digital platforms, providing assistance in e-learning and digital based activities for students, teachers and researchers.

The University of Genoa is one of the largest universities in Italy. It is defined by its high-level multidisciplinary, multinational educational pathways, its research projects and innovation activities, and its active technological transfer. UniGe has developed several activities to boost innovation in higher education and is committed in developing and implementing new learning and teaching methods (like new multidisciplinary curricula, learner-centred and real problem-based teaching and learning).

The University of Seville is a historic university, the second largest in Spain in number of students, with a comprehensive formation, internationally recognized for its academic excellence, research and technology transfer background. USE has developed competences in online learning and teaching processes and has created a group for pedagogical support in technological learning and digital resources, leader in adaptation of teaching and evaluation to virtual scenario.

The Management Center Innsbruck in Austria follows the concept of an Entrepreneurial School covering Higher Education, research and transfer into practice for management, society, technology and life sciences. MCI drives several initiatives aimed at transforming the organisations, teaching activities and curricula to meet the challenges of “digitalisation”. MCI has developed significant expertise in the design and delivery of digital badges and other digital learning strategies, earning the FIBAA quality seal “Excellence in Digital Education” in 2021.

Université Côte d'Azur, in France, is a research-intensive university relying on a strong cluster of Higher Education and research institutions. UCA is committed in the flexibility of training courses and in the educational transformation, enhancing distance, online and blended learning and training teachers and professors to innovative pedagogical tools.

The D2S@Ulysseus project is carried out by the 6 universities part of Ulysseus European University Alliance, which relies on a strong and innovative strategy including improved attention to the development of training resources on transversal skills aiming at strengthening employability, creativity and new professional paths. The composition of the consortium ensures a transnational teamwork and the exchange of knowledge, scientific and technical expertise, as well as experience directly linked to the project’s scope and objectives.

Following its commitment to create a European University with its own high-quality, student-centred, inclusive education, Ulysseus alliance wants through D2S@Ulysseus to take a huge step forward this goal creating tools and courses to enhance teachers and students Digital Soft Skills.

All Ulysseus members are already fully engaged in digital transformation in their institution and specially in digital transformation for teaching and learning. However, the Ulysseus Alliance aims to go beyond individual projects, go beyond individual courses catalogues and start building its own digital, joint and competence-based catalogue of courses and training.

Another innovative aspect of D2S@Ulysseus project lies in the essential role of external stakeholders. Since Ulysseus Alliance is very well integrated in each partners ecosystem and in large international networks, with 95 identified associated partners, the D2S@Uysseus aims at involving as many as possible Ulysseus local, regional, national, European and International partners in the different project activities.