The project - VIRTUALLYEDU - Virtual Exchanges and Education on Digital Skills has been funded within the Erasmus + Grant Competition

Within The Erasmus+ EU Competition project - VIRTUALLYEDU - Virtual Exchanges and Education on Digital Skills has been funded. project aims to connect young people from Europe and the Eastern Neighbourhood regions with higher education students, faculty members, and academic staff through various online activities, which will promote enhancing digital skills, supporting employability and strengthening youth network between EU and Eastern Neighbourhood countries.

Project key objectives are the following:

• Developing Digital Skills: The project considers upskilling students in digital skills and promoting virtual collaboration capacity to support the strategy development for the Education sector of participant countries;

• Introduction of new approaches to teaching and learning: The project will provide new teaching and learning approaches considering students’ experience within the framework of the project. The project will be fully focused on helping young people foster digital skills especially in empowering on cybersecurity;

• Creating Educational Material: The project considers establishing a sustainable open access material for long-term use, which will promote enhancing the capacity building of participant students and in general to improve the digital literacy in Education sector of consortium member countries;

• Promoting intercultural dialogue: project aims to promote intercultural dialogue Through various online activities with new approaches and methodologies, which will create an environment conducive to sustainable development and will strengthen EU employability relations with the Eastern countries;

• Virtual Mobility Exchanges: It is the innovation that promotes virtual mobility exchanges among the EU and 3 countries from the Eastern Partnership EaP. More than 300 HEI Leaders, Staff, Teachers, Trainers, Facilitators from the Europe region are supposed to be involved in this project. Participation of the program includes the building of new project management skills, involvement in qualitative and evaluation tasks and in learning new digital teaching tools.

The project consortium consists of nine partner HEIs and youth organizations, among from Greece, Sweden, Georgia, and Eastern Neighborhood countries.