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Building Good Practices in Higher Education through ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnerships: The Case of the INNOSOC Project

Fast proliferation of information and communication technologies (ICT) caused certain negative side effects for society (e.g., increased energy usage or CO2 emissions). However, “innovation in ICT” and especially “innovation with ICT” offer potential solutions for some of the biggest societal challenges. These are reasons why it is of great importance that students understand how ICT can be utilized to tackle societal challenges. The “Innovative ICT Solutions for the Societal Challenges (INNOSOC)” project, co-funded with €200, 000 through the EU supported ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnerships, is step forward in that direction taken by consortium of 11 universities from 8 EU countries. The INNOSOC curricula, which will be available as multilingual open educational resource (OER) as well, consist of four main topic groups: (i)“innovation” as a core topic ; (ii) intercultural topics, with focus on “Multicultural teams” ; (iii) ICT topics, with focus on “Innovative engineering based on ICT” ; and (iv) student projects, with focus on “Case studies on how ICT can contribute to innovative societal development”. Student projects will be based on the “blended” mobility approach and organized in two phases: (i) preparatory (virtual mobility) ; and (ii) execution phase (physical mobility). Physical mobility will be implemented through two two- week workshops hosted by partner universities in 2016 (Zagreb) and 2017 (Valencia). Workshop participants will be lecturers (16 professors from 11 universities from 8 countries) and students (100 students from 11 universities from 8 countries) from partner universities. Multilingual open course materials on innovation and entrepreneurship including case studies on how ICT can contribute to innovative societal development will be made free to access through the project web site (http://sociallab.education/innosoc). In that way INNOSOC project will have significant impact on national and EU level through serving on the long-term benefit of all citizens, academia and industry.

Erasmus+; Strategic Partnerships; Higher Education; Innovation

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