UNITA Innovation in Teaching & Learning Initiative

Task number	3
Name	UNITA Innovation in Teaching & Learning Initiative
Strategic Axes	Education and Pedagogical Innovation
Workpackage	UNITA Lifelong education

Objectives

Seeks to provide tools and skills to the teachers for achieving innovation in teaching and learning within the alliance and beyond. Its main outcomes are teachers upskilling and the development of projects in the field of pedagogical Innovation.

• Include new partners of the alliance in the existing UNITA Teaching and Learning Centres Net-work
• Develop the UNITA teacher training offer
• Implement and test the UNITA teacher training
• Launch yearly calls on Innovation in Learning & Teaching
• Develop the UNITA communities of practice

Inputs & Resources

Source documentation:

• UNITA Tasks_Team_List_20231120
• UNITA Budget documents

Resources

• Human Resources: List of staff on the task, roles and position: Co-leaders Natália Gomes IPG and Theofild Lazăr UVT + 36 TT members (Profiles: often from QA offices or QA teams/VR).
• Financial: Budget allocated to the task: 62.000€ (Travel (40%) Accomodation (40%) Subsistence (20%) + 45.800€ (for “other costs”) of the WP3 as a whole, but no specific distribution per task.
• Materials: Type of materials required (computers, software, scientific tools,…): Datacloud, Big Blue Button.
• Intangible: Type of intangible materials (communication tools, data bases,…): Datacloud applications; QRCs

Activities & Sub-Tasks

Source documentation: In each WP folder, document entitled “WPx_full_description)

• Task Description – T3.3 description
• GANTT – T3.3 GANTT

List of activities	Activity title	Activity description	Deadline
1	Introduce the new partners to the achievements and lessons learned from phase one and to Quality Assurance practices.	The new partners have been associated with the project's activities since June 2021, resulting in an easier and shorter acquaintance process.	(M1-M2)
2	Update the general synoptic assessment of partner Quality Assurance systems.	Building on phase one benchmarking by the QEB, by including the new partners' QA systems frameworks. Update and adopt the UNITA Quality Assurance policy to be implemented at partner and alliance level, with quantitative and qualitative indicators fitting the new WP and Tasks structure. Define opportunities of partner Quality Assurance synergies, further developing the common Quality Assurance policy respecting different institutional/regional/national contexts. Together with TTs 1.2 and 5.4, agree on the methodology for the evaluation of progress, processes, cost-efficiency, and deliverables, including systematic feedback from students, staff and stakeholders. Update the Quality Assurance plan by drawing a map through a logical table relating Tasks and indicators, defining all the processes to reach the objectives, and building a management quality system with procedure and codification for each process or activity. Train all the Task teams to the quality assurance policy and plan.	(M3-M12)
3	Implement and test the evaluation of progress, processes, cost-efficiency, and deliverables of the first year.	Producing a report for the QEB. Support the QEB in the production of the annual report with recommendations for the Governance Board (GB). Monitor the implementation of the corrective actions decided by the GB and evolve the quality assurance requirements and plan accordingly. Repeat evaluations emphasising identified areas of improvement. Evaluate and realize the independent assessment given by an external European Evaluation Agency, accommodating modifications in the interest of improvement. Draw lessons from the implementation of the quality assurance plan integrating best practices based on an inventory, mapping of the main QA processes on teaching, research, and public engagement.	(M13-M48)
4	Co-develop together with TT1.1 and disseminate the UNITA Quality Assurance strategy.	Matching with the ambition of developing a model of European University. Internally disseminate the strategy to all actors and in particular to the Quality Assurance Boards of the partners. Benchmark Quality Assurance strategy and practices with other European Universities by organizing and participating to mutual learning workshops.	(M24-M48)

Indicators

These indicators have been gathered from the different source (list below) and have been gathered from interviews driven by Task 5.4 UNITA impact observatory.

Source documentation: In each WP folder, document entitled “WPx_full_description)

• Task Description – T3.3 description
• GANTT – T3.3 GANTT
• List of Indicators – UNITA indicators

Primary indicatorsSecondary indicatorsSub-Indicators

These indicators have been chosen and agree during the Phase 2 proposal made to the European Commission.

Indicator	Indicator Description	Unit of measurement	Data Source	Frequency	Baseline	Target	Type
a	Number of teachers trained under the UNITA Innovation in Teaching and Learning Initiative	Numerical	UNITA Offices	Every 6 months		600	Output

To be defined by T5.4 members previously to interviews and to be proposed to task co leader

Indicator Description	Unit of measurement	Data Source	Frequency	Baseline	Target	Type
Number of applicants (teachers) to the training.	Numerical	UNITA Offices	Every 6 months			Outcome
Number of training courses offered.	Numerical	UNITA Offices	Every 6 months			Output
Number of calls opened on Innovation in Learning & Teaching	Numerical	UNITA Offices	Annual			Outcome
Number of teaching and learning centers working	Numerical	UNITA Offices	Once at the beginning			Output

To be defined by T5.4 members previously to interviews and to be proposed to task co leader

Data collection

Indicator Description	Data Source	Collection Type	Data Owner
Number of applicants (teachers) to the training.	UNITA Offices	Manual	Report on T3.3 activity with a table that include this data
Number of grants granted (winner)	UNITA Offices	Manual	Report on needs assessment of the teachers
Number of calls Number of applicants to the calls	UNITA Offices	Manual	Report on needs assessment of the teachers
Number of teachers trained under the UNITA Innovation in Teaching and Learning Initiative	UNITA Offices	Manual	Report on T3.3 activity with a table that include this data
Number of training courses offered.	UNITA Offices	Manual	Report on T3.3 activity with a table that include this data
Number of calls opened on Innovation in Learning & Teaching	UNITA Offices	Manual	Report on needs assessment of the teachers
Number of microcredentials and badges obtained by teachers	UNITA Offices	Manual	Report on T3.3 activity with a table that include this data
Number of teaching and learning centers working	UNITA Offices	Manual	Report on T3.3 activity with a table that include this data

Impacts

Source documentation:

• Task and WP long-term objectives Task Description - T3.3 description - WP3 Objectives
• UNITA Mission Statement (from Grant Agreement)

	Users / Beneficiaries Intern to UNITA	End-Users / Beneficiaries extern to UNITA
1) Who are the stakeholders benefiting of the task’s actions?	* Partners of UNITA * The main beneficiaries are UNITA teachers and UNITA staff * Open the training to other universities outside UNITA * Participants in the trainings will promote UNITA at conferences, workshops, seminars, and other scientific events INDICATOR * Number of people trained from other universities outside UNITA	To check with the T5.1 list
2) To what extent has the local/international society changed as a result of outcomes compared to before UNITA? What are the long term results for them?	* The development of a teaching and learning center in an international context * Published papers	Academic community (professors and researchers)