International Projects
ERASMUS+
Erasmus+ is the EU’s programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe. Its budget of €14.7 billion will provide opportunities for over 4 million Europeans to study, train, gain experience, and volunteer abroad. It runs for seven years, from 2014 to 2020.
Erasmus+ aims support the European modernisation and internationalisation agenda in higher education, in particular the quality of student and staff mobility.
Erasmus+ is open to many individuals and organisations, although eligibility varies from one action to another and from one country to another.
Individuals can take part in many of the opportunities funded by Erasmus+, although most will have to do so through an organisation taking part in the programme. The eligibility of individuals and organisations depends on the country in which they are based.
Eligible countries are divided into two groups, Programme countries and Partners countries. Although Programme countries are eligible for all actions of Erasmus+, Partner countries can only take part in some, and are subject to specific conditions.
Institutions must hold a valid Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE) in order to participate in Erasmus+. The Erasmus Charter for Higher Education provides the quality framework for Erasmus+ funded activities carried out by an institution.
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/
BuildPHE
Building Professional Higher Education Capacity in Europe
No. of the project: 2015-1-PL01-KA203-017072
Build PHE is a programme financed by Erasmus+ which aims to encourage institutions representing Professional Higher Education to examine their policies and strategies in relation to the World of Work and implement potential changes to strengthen co-operation with employers.
The Coordinator of the Project is the UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES in TARNOW (PAŃSTWOWA WYŻSZA SZKOŁA ZAWODOWA w TARNOWIE).
Build PHE strives to implement improvements and reforms to policies and practices as regards cooperation with the World of Work that will result in expanding learning opportunities for students undertaking professional higher education.
Build PHE supports sharing of best practices in the area of Professional Higher Education cooperating with the World of Work.
Build PHE seeks a more profound understanding of inter-institutional innovation policies, strategy-formulation and decision-making processes to implement and support policies that will result in an enhanced cooperation between business and higher education.
EUROPEAN RESEARCHERS NIGHT/NOC NAUKOWCÓW
The European Researchers’ Nights are events dedicated to popular science and fun learning.
They are a unique opportunity to meet researchers, talk to them, and find out what they really do for society, in interactive and engaging ways.
This can be through hands-on experiments, science shows, learning activities for children, guided visits of research labs, science quizzes, games, competitions with researchers and more.
The European Researchers’ Night takes place every year all over Europe and in neighbouring countries the last Friday of September. It is organised in Poland inter alia in: Tarnów, Kraków, Nowy Sącz, Poznań, Szczecin.
The events are supported by the European Commission as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, which is an EU funding programme to boost the careers of researchers.
HEALINT
In 2017 UAS in Tarnow became a partner in the international project Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships called HEALINT: Supporting Internationalisation of Traineeships in the Healthcare Sector.
The project envisages the creation of an international quality control system for medical and healthcare institutions, which will meet national and international requirements and priorities agreed by partners (universities and hospitals from 5 European countries) for the implementation of apprenticeships through international mobility.
For further information, please visit: https://healint.eu/
In 2020 University of Applied Sciences in Tarnow once again become a partner of the international project called HEALINT4ALL, which is a continuation of a HEALINT project. The aim of the project is to establish a uniform audit system for institutions offering apprenticeships for students in the field of physiotherapy and health sciences, so that the quality of practical training is comparable regardless of the country where the traineeships take place.
The project involves six universities and a technical partner overseeing the quality of project work and IT tools created:
- University of Nottingham (UK)
- Middlesex University (UK)
- Satakunta University of Applied Sciences in Pori (Finland)
- University of Alicante (Spain)
- Aristoteleio Panepistimio Thessalonikis (Greece)
- University of Applied Sciences in Tarnow
- Knowledge Innovation Centre (Malta)
IDEA Innovative Digital Education Approach
Project number: 2020-1-MK01-KA226-VET-094564
The project is implemented under the Erasmus + KA2 program: Strategic Partnerships.
The strategic partnership „IDEA” aims to improve of the quality of education process of VET schools across Europe regarding development of new innovative methodologies for creating digital lessons for VET schools, improvement of digital skills of the staff and creating interactive and inclusive lessons for students.
In order to do this, the partners will enhance the skills of the skills/educators for working with innovative methods online . The partners will develop a combination of methodology and digital tools for teachers’ use.
New methodology for online/digital lessons is developed as it is more effective, successful and popular than online lessons based on one-side presentation lectures.
This methodology will help students connect, be interactive, be more active and creative during lessons.
This is a strong tool in times when visual/ digital communication is very important, especially among youth.
Target groups:
- primary: teachers, educators, Staff in VET schools
- secondary: students in VET schools, other teachers/educators
Consortium presentation: https://youtu.be/lIZq4C71MOQ
Project starts: 01.04.2021
Project ends: 31.10.2022
GNurseSim
„Improving Geriatric Patient Satisfaction: Development of a High-Fidelity E-learning Simulation Course to Develop Intercultural Skills in Geriatric Patient Care”
Project number: 2020-1-PL01-KA226-HE-096353
The project is implemented under the Erasmus + KA2 program: Strategic Partnerships.
The objectives of GNurseSIM are to support HEI to provide students in geriatric nursing with opportunities during their training to practise skills of adopting a multidisciplinary holistic approach to the care of older patients.
This will be achieved by combining elements from different approaches to arrive at a unified model and develop an intercultural, culture-sensitive geriatric nursing course, as well as recommendations and guidelines regarding the implementation of the course and possibilities it offers to other areas of nursing.
The project will be implemented by a consortium composed of 7 partners from 5 countries – Finland, Malta, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom – of which 6 are HEI – CENTRIA, MCAST, MDX, PWSZ, SAMK, UA – and 1 is an SME specialised in quality in education and knowledge transfer (KIC).
Project starts: 01.05.2021
Project ends: 30.04.2023
HEALINT4ALL
Project number: 2020-1-UK203-079155
The project is implemented under the Erasmus + KA2 program: Strategic Partnerships.
The aim of the project is to establish a uniform audit system of institutions offering placements for students in the field of physiotherapy and other areas of education in the field of health sciences, so that the quality of practical education is comparable regardless of the country where the placement takes place.
This will translate into facilitating the organization of international placements, and thus, better preparation of students for the international labour market.
The project also assumes close cooperation with medical institutions in Tarnów, which will take an active part in the development and piloting of a tool for auditing a potential place of practice.
Six universities and a technical partner overseeing the quality of design work and the created IT tools participate in the project:
- University of Nottingham (UK)
- Middlesex University in London (UK)
- Satakunta University in Pori (Finland)
- University of Alicante (Spain)
- Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis (Greece)
- University of Applied Sciences in Tarnów (Poland)
- Knowledge and Innovation Center (Malta
Project starts: 01.09.2020
Project ends: 31.08.2023
CLIL-HET
Visegrad+ 21910035 – CLIL-Higher Education Teacher.
The project CLIL-HET aims at grouping ESP and CLIL experts/specialists to prepare the platform for networking within V4 and Western Balkan (WB) countries to support disciplinary teachers at Higher education institutions (HEIs) to set up English education environment (EEE).
HEIs are pressured to provide courses taught in English to enhance students´ and teachers´ / experts´ mobility within EU or/and in non EU world to share knowledge, to network and to participate in solving challenges of the current global world.
Most HEIs in V4 countries provide study programmes for their students in their mother tongues and what is more, in some cases ESP courses for students have been cut or completely cancelled.
This might be one of the factors which lead to lower level of mobility than EU expected. To support incoming and outgoing mobility of HEIs in V4 and also in WB countries.
Project partners :
- University of Szeged, Hungary
- The Institute of Technology and Business in České Budejovice, the Czech Republic
- University of Applied Sciences in Tarnów (Poland)
- The University in Pristina’s Faculty of Philosophy in Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia
- EPOKA University, Albania
ENGINE
Project number: 2020-1-PL01-KA226-HE-095653
The project is implemented under the Erasmus + KA2 program: Strategic Partnerships.
The project focuses on the customization of the standard face to face materials for teaching technical subjects in the engineering field in such a way that it will meet the needs of the on-line education.
The need emerged during the pandemic, where many higher institutions were called to change their teaching practices and update their training methods and materials.
The goal of the project is the development, preparation and implementation of the online courses related to electronics, microcontrolers (e.g. AVR, ARM, PIC), board-based practice (like Arduino) and programming languages that are introduced together with physical equipment (e.g. C, C++, Python, VHDL, etc. ).
The courses will be based on the opensource solutions and become available as Open Educational Resources (OER). These courses can be realized independently by students or supported by educators in the frame of on-line education.
The courses will be prepared by the partner Universities and submitted to a common online platform (i.e. Moodle or relevant) to support local education needs and extend the didactic offer for students.
To strengthen the online collaboration and language benefits the courses will be prepared in English allowing also future use of the materials for higher education students in Europe and beyond. The project also focuses on the development of a tutorial on how to organize the remote online learning for higher education students.
Project starts: 01.03.2021
Project ends: 28.02.2023
TECH-GAME /GANDHI
The project is to develop a course on understanding, teaching History through gamification to disabled young students, and teachers through gamification, and blended learning approach.
The objectives of the project are:
- Supporting the capacity building of mainstream and special education history teachers in primary and secondary education;
- Supporting teachers and improving their key competencies by using gamification in the history classroom;
- Creation of gamification software and tools related to history topics;
- Digitalization of the gamification tools by the creation of a gamification platform and a mobile application;
- Supporting teachers in using and sharing effective methods in learning and recognizing history for students with fewer opportunities (visual problems, hearing problems, intellectual
problems аnd dyslexia), addressing the opportunities and implications of digitalization; - Fostering inclusion of students with fewer opportunities;
- Fostering equality in learning history for students with fewer opportunities;
- Promoting intercultural dialogue and strengthening knowledge and acceptance of diversity in society;
- Recognizing and validating the work of history teachers in non-formal and informal learning on European, national, regional and local levels;
- Promoting diversity, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, as well as the common values of freedom, tolerance and respect of the human and social right
Project starts: 01.11.2021
Project ends: 01.11.2023