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The new partners have been associated with the project's activities since June 2021, resulting in an easier and shorter acquaintance process.
Introduce the new partners to the achievements and lessons learned from phase one.
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Fully integrating new partners and involving students and staff, and associated partners. Confirm processes of nomination, election and rotation for all governance bodies and operational units. Communicate nomination, election and rotation schemes with academic and administrative staff as well as internal and external stakeholders involved. Analyse current governance practices at partner and alliance level as regards the execution of the alliance missions in education, research, innovation and service to society, possibly benchmarking with other alliances. In cooperation with the Student Assembly, collect and analyse data for the comparison of the regulations and electoral systems of all the partners of the UNITA Alliance with the aim to implement tools (in cooperation with T3.4) that encourage and facilitate the democratic participation of all students in the decision-making processes within the Alliance itself with potential transformative impact on each partner. Specify innovative areas for enhancement through the first discussions of strategy plans. Implement, test and adjust governance processes to balance continuousness and innovative impulses. Share test results as well as intended adjustments with students, staff and stakeholders before implementation. Regularly assess legal and operative synergetic potential of governance processes and accommodate them under the principle of operational jointness.
Update and maintain the governance structures (Governance Board, Student Assembly, Quality and Evaluation Board).
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Including meeting programs, in connection with Task 1.2, improving the current governance of the alliance based on the experience of the pilot phase and adapting it to the enlargement of the alliance. Two UNITA weeks are organized each year, each by a different partner; during the days, physical (if possible) meetings of (and between) the following boards/teams are organised: Governance Board UNITA and Conseil Stratégique of the Legal Entity, Quality & Evaluation Board, Student Assembly, Task Team 1.1 & Comité de Proposition et Pilotage of the Legal Entity, Task Team 1.2, Work Packages Teams (considering each Constellation project as a different WP). Integrate the Legal Entity in the alliance set up and activities.
Establish the agenda of the new bodies of the enlarged alliance.
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Interact with the governance bodies (Governance Board, Student Assembly, Quality and Evaluation Board), the Management Committee (i.e. Task Team 1.2), the UNITA Executive Coordinator, the UNITA Office Coordinator, as well as with academic and support staff representatives to co-design the medium-term vision of UNITA. Build the UNITA model of institutionalized European University drawing the evolution of the Legal Entity, and co- design the long-term vision with the Task teams competent for the different strategy plans and actions (e.g. TT1.2, TT1.3, TT2.2, TT2.4, TT3.1, TT3.2, TT3.4, TT4.1, TT4.2, TT4.4, TT5.2, TT5.3, TT5.4, TT5.5) and other experts in the alliance supporting the transformation of the Legal Entity towards the shared European University ambitions. Present the UNITA model of institutionalized European University and discuss in a forum or workshop with the European Commission, the National Authorities, and other Alliances the role, the governance, and the mission of European Universities.
Coordinate the development of the UNITA model for a European University.
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Introduce the new partners to the achievements and lessons learned from phase one and to project management practices.
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For the new partners and adapt the existing ones in order to ensure the continuity of the alliance construction, the project management and the operational coordination at alliance level.
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In order to lead the progress of the UNITA action program, the activities of UNITA are coordinated and implemented by the operational bodies: Management Committee, WP Teams and Task Teams, UNITA Offices, and the UNITA Executive and Offices Coordinators. They interact in a cooperative and participative way by co-creating knowledge and related decisions according to a platform approach that shares resources and mutual benefits.
Implement the UNITA management structure.
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Operational functioning is defined by a shared document (UNITA Management Guide) that will be updated from phase one of the project, allowing each UNITA contributor to work efficiently and in the respect of UNITA criteria. Specific digital tools for project management and for creating a knowledge base in an agile framework will be developed. A model for the UNITA Data Warehouse and a methodology of data collection, processing, storage and analysis will be developed in order to allow the monitoring of UNITA, on the basis of indicators coming from the different Tasks and WPs and to ensure the quality policy of the project (link with Task 5.4). Train all key actors for the implementation of the project management processes and tools through communication and functional support to successfully implement the changes.
Update the UNITA Management Guide and tools and design a Data Warehouse.
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Considering objectives, Tasks' progression, indicators' status, risks and issues analysis and mitigation, budget spending, reporting to the governance bodies, in coordination with TT 1.1 and 1.3. Draw lessons based on the users' experience and share intended adjustments with the impacted groups before further updating the Management Guide (M36).
Continuous management and coordination of the Tasks activities.
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Introduce the new partners to the achievements and lessons learned from phase one and to Quality Assurance practices.
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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.
Update the general synoptic assessment of partner Quality Assurance systems.
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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.
Implement and test the evaluation of progress, processes, cost-efficiency, and deliverables of the first year.
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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.
Co-develop together with TT1.1 and disseminate the UNITA Quality Assurance strategy.
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Introduce the new partners to the achievements and lessons learned from RE-UNITA (M2). Map our institutional policies, charters, documentation, etc. as well as our needs to identify common priorities and standards. Collect and share standard and innovative student and staff policies. Make a synopsis of similar and complementary practices to detect potential of synergies and joint actions. Draft, discuss and adopt the UNITA alliance student and staff policies' strategy and action plan at partner and alliance level, aiming at measurable increases in 5 fields: 1) student and staff well-being 2) inclusion and gender equity, 3) staff training, career, and leadership development within the alliance, 4) intra- and extra-entrepreneurship and 5) connecting students' organisations and initiatives.
Outline student and staff policies throughout the alliance.
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Create a specific working and studying conditions working group in charge of implementing a PDCA (plan-do-check-act) cycle by surveying and proposing actions to improve the study, research and work environments, the occupational health well-being and safety for students and staff. Build a common model of Well-being in UNITA universities and implement some actions of it in each university. Communication plan to develop and promote the interventions at each University. Each year a meeting will be organised, four overall. Conduct a survey on the well-being of staff at the beginning and at the end of the project and measure the degree of satisfaction and criticalities of students and staff.
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Create a UNITA Inclusion and Gender Equity Plan (UIGEP) based on similar plans existing in each University and on the outcomes of the WP3 RE- UNITA project developed in the first stage. It will be harmonised with the European Charter for Researchers and a Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. The universities should share experiences about their strategic plans and the tools they use for their implementation and disseminate the results to the academic community. One meeting per year will be organised to promote inclusion and gender equity.
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Organise a leadership course for the university managing staff (Vice-Rectors and Deputies, Heads of Departments and Faculties, Service Directors, Offices Heads) to drive universities towards a better change management capability. The program focuses on giving to the University leaders guidelines and competencies to improve decision-making, change management and communication. A working group will be set up to define the common UNITA leadership model and how to adapt it in each University, considering the specific existing organisation and national rules. One meeting per year will be organised to monitor the progress.
Foster staff training and career development.
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Promote organisational innovation from within the universities, by encouraging staff and students to take an active role in the development of new ideas and decision-making, aiming at re-engineering the management processes. This will improve motivation and commitment, as well as increase creativity and entrepreneurial spirit within UNITA universities. Define organizational innovation models in UNITA universities, with a focus on the areas of Human Resources and services and elaborate an instrument to evaluate it. Build an action plan based on a diagnosis of the level of innovation in each University. Following the outcomes of the first phase of UNITA regarding the management of the Alliance, in particular about the models of recognition of mobility for staff, we will promote meetings among the HR managers and offices heads to disseminate and implement the organisational innovation model and the action plan. One meeting per year will be organised.
Facilitate organisational innovation through intra-entrepreneurship and management development.
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Support the organisation of meetings of the Student Assembly and students' organisations to encourage the proposal of projects for the improvement of students' life. A part of the Budget of the Student Assembly will be dedicated to a joint project to support the student's associations inside the Alliance. Develop the association's ideas, share knowledge, share best practices in student organisations, implement online courses related to life skills for students (e.g., finance for everyday life), develop common actions.
Connect students' organisations and initiatives.
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Analyse and draw lessons. This inventory will show up what we are already doing and is convenient to continue with, which our key strengths are, what we should share among us, and which aspects should be improved in the next phase.
Chart the activities on Romance languages teaching and learning and IC (M1-M4) through an inventory of the actions developed in UNITA phase one and by the new universities.
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Identify the best methodologies, the most adequate materials and the most useful ways of working together to offer the best experience possible in learning languages and practising IC. Adopt them as a UNITA identifier and spread it.
Define a UNITA label for Romance languages learning and IC.
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Pool and enhance existing resources (online courses, materials, experiences) and best practices. This network is essential to share the existing actions and resources each University already has, and the new ones created specifically for UNITA 2.
Create a network of UNITA language centres, including GEMINAE partners.
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The UNITA Language Policy will be a manual where all the work lines and approaches adopted will be specified, including an interactive guide for IC teachers. It will be not only useful for the UNITA community, but for any person or institution interested in languages teaching and learning.
Define and adopt a UNITA Language Policy.
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Brief explanatory videos in IC and Romance languages in blended Language for Specific Purposes courses, ensuring the promotion and dissemination of the label/badge within the UNITA community. Those "how-to pills" will focus on delicate issues on learning languages and IC which cover a gap in the needs of the UNITA community. All along the 4 years international and inter-alliance events, workshops, weeks, or congresses with user-generated content about language learning and teaching and pedagogical innovation will be held. We will collect and assess feedback from a variety of students, teachers and territorial actors on the effectiveness and impact of Romance languages learning and IC in teaching and learning.
Produce micro-credentials/modules with inclusion of "how-to pills".
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Chart examples of effective community building within and across the alliance, and specifically, the matching events on research and on education that took place organized during the pilot phase. Define effective community building within and across education, research, innovation, and university life.
Collect community building actions in the first phase.
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Organize a series of UNITA Task-related matching events, hosted by different members of the alliance. Each university will autonomously determine the participants of each matching event, according to commonly agreed rules. Their objective will be to set-up formal collaborations with the potential to leverage the effect of Tasks linked to the core university missions. They will be organized in close cooperation with the Task Team of the Task in which they impact. The events will take place before M18, to ensure their effect during the 4-year period. At least two events will be organized in each university, but the final number of events could increase if additional resources are invested by the universities or collected from AP or other external agents interested in the topics. There will be four categories of matching events: * Matching events on education to explore new shared education paths (impact on T3.1, T.3.2) * Matching events on research to connect research groups (impact on T4.2) * Matching events on innovation to work, preferably hand-in-hand with associated partners, on local ecosystems needs, technology transfer projects, upskilling and reskilling through micro-credentials, etc. (impact on T4.1) * Matching events on university life, with a focus on the well-being of the university community, promotion of sports, cultural activities, etc. (impact on T2.1). Cross-disciplinary and cross-domain events will be possible as well. In some cases, an online pre-event will be organized to facilitate contacts and start building synergies among participants. During the events, the participants will present their background and ideas, and they will have time to align their objectives and converge in a common project. All events will include an introductory session to UNITA. Thus, they will also serve as internal dissemination events.
Implement Task-focused open actions for community building.
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Each participant in a matching event will receive a starting grant for the travel expenses and for directs costs of an initial collaboration with other attendees on the topics of the event. At the end of the period (M32), each formed team will present a report on their progress, achieved, and expected impact, and suggested further steps.
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A board established by the Task Team and approved by the Management Committee will assess the project reports and select the most impactful ones, which will receive a consolidating grant to keep working on the idea for a second year (M42). At the end of the period, the report on progress and impact will be updated. During the whole implementation phase (M18-M42), Task 5.2, in cooperation with the legal entity, will look closely at the projects and identify calls from which additional funding can be obtained to fully develop the ideas of the group.
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The Task Team will elaborate a final report of the Task, with a summary of the project reports, lessons learnt, and a definition of a cooperation sparking model for UNITA. This will model will be used in future cycles of events devised to strengthen even more the community.
Summarize and draw conclusions on the second phase of UNITA community building actions.
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Define an alliance mobility strategy and action plan composed of a series of UNITA mobility actions fostering mobility as a structural alliance feature (M12). Implement and test each of the mobility actions on a small scale by dividing partners into focus groups, then share good practices and extend involvement to each partner.
Define an alliance mobility strategy and action plan.
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With this purpose all the relevant information on the different programmes together with detailed practical information on the destination will be disseminated with the help of ‘Mobility ambassadors' (students and staff participating in previous calls will provide evaluation of mobility experiences through systematic survey, peer-to-peer counselling, and social networking for students and staff). Efforts will be made to harmonize call dates and facilitate the application procedures by improving digital solutions for registration, coursework, assessment, and certification, in line with the student card initiative, diploma supplement and Europass. The recognition of all the UNITA learning paths will be ensured.
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Internationalization at home will be fostered by increasing a virtual mobility offer which can be attractive for the students, together with the promotion of UNITA Collaborative International Learning UCIL). BIPS and new programmes of short term ‘initiating' mobilities will be explored. When possible, mobility windows will be included in programmes, beginning with a pilot.
Ensure accessible mobility for every student.
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Our impact on the territory will be reinforced through the participation of our students in UNITA Rural Mobility (URM). This initiative allows the students to spend several weeks in rural areas performing internships which will help them to improve professional competences and soft skills while enriching the rural community with international university experiences. This type of mobility benefits a limited number of students because it requires extra funds but has a deep impact both on students and territories.
Enhance the impact on the territories: UNITA Rural Mobility.
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Organise career tracking of students participating in the UNITA mobilities during the first two years to assess the impact of mobility (together with T5.4). The impact on the career will be measured two years later. The European Graduate Tracking Initiative of the European Commission will be used as a reference framework.
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Collect, share, and analyse the activities and achievements on European citizenship developed in UNITA phase one and introduce the new partners to them.
Recap UNITA phase one activity on European Citizenship.
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To enhance UNITA's contribution to the academic work on European Citizenship, we will transform the one-day conferences (UNITA phase one) into a joint multi-annual program of conferences exploring the different meanings of European identity, citizenship, and values. The proceedings of the conferences will be published as an output of this work.
Organize an annual Conference on European Citizenship.
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To involve UNITA students in the research and dissemination of European Citizenship, we will recognize the work done by the students and the output of the UNITA curricula by yearly delivering prizes for Bachelor's degree or Master's degree dissertations and organizing audio-visual contests illustrating the students' approach to EC and identity.
Set up UNITA prizes and contests on European Citizenship.
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We will implement courses on European identity using virtual mobility for the university communities, particularly students. We will also organize every two years a Winter or Summer School on the different approaches to EC, involving students and teachers from different UNITA universities.
Develop an action plan to integrate European Citizenship into the curricula of UNITA universities.
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To do so, we will engage students in actions to develop European citizenship awareness: special attention will be paid to including PhD students in the above sub Tasks and to sending student ambassadors in high schools to promote and discuss European citizenship and identity. We will also implement training sessions on European citizenship and identity and their implications on daily life; the target groups of those training sessions will be local rural communities, civic associations, people in the local administrations, migrants and refugees.
Promote a sense of belonging to European communities and inclusiveness.
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The Task will start with a (UNITA) state-of-the-art of past experiences. It relies on many examples, either stand-alone or single, multiple, joint degree transformation exercises, or best practices on multilingual student-centred pedagogies and digital learning.
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By identifying existing and launching new UNITA learning opportunities, integrating them into the existing curricula based on a continuous update of the UNITA course cartography and facilitating their automatic recognition, also using the opportunity of the Flexibility window introduced in local curricula during UNITA first phase. Improve the model through the learner's feedback.
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A mobility window is a period of mobility (either long or short, physical, blended, or virtual) embedded into the curriculum of a study programme. It implies an agreed set of learning activities fully recognised by the partner Universities. The MW benefits from digitalization of student mobility processes (EWP and European student card). We will identify a sample of study programmes on which to implement this mobility opportunity.
Introduce the mobility window (MW) in study programmes.
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We will define the main features of the UNITA label and disseminate it to the community for application. Following the European strategy for Universities, the UNITA label will be in line with the recommendations from the pilot phase on the European degree label (see call ERASMUS-EDU-2022-POL-EXP) such as Multilingualism, Innovative learning approaches, Flexible and embedded student mobility arrangements".
Develop and promote a UNITA European label for joint study programmes.
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The relevant responsible actors will identify existing or design new programmes meeting the requirements of the UNITA degree label. The shared degree programmes will be implemented.
Design and implement shared UNITA degrees.
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Analyse and benchmark the existing micro-credential- based strategies for lifelong learning (UNITA and other alliances). The analysis will consider different audiences and their needs.
Define the UNITA strategy for lifelong learning.
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Identify criteria which define the label according to the personalized, multilingual, international approach and the territorial needs. Identify existing modules to be transformed into micro-credentials and micro-credentials that could be awarded a UNITA micro-credential label. The UNITA label will be included, depending on the public, in the UNITA diploma supplement, Europass or the European student Card.
Define and award the UNITA micro-credential label.
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In collaboration with 4.1 and our associated partners the needs of UNITA's territories will be analysed in terms of up-skilling and re-skilling. We will also look into the needs of our students in terms of flexibilisation of study paths (Task 3.1) and employability. At least two calls will be launched with the aim to select the projects for the creation of new UNITA micro-credentials tailored to the emerged needs.
Develop new micro-credentials meeting emerging needs.
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The catalogue contains all the UNITA labelled micro-credentials and is meant as a tool to support the personalisation of the study paths and reskilling and upskilling of lifelong learners. It will be hosted by the UNITA inter-university digital campus (Task 3.4)
Set up the catalogue of UNITA labelled micro-credentials.
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In cooperation with Task 5.2 and the Legal Entity create and implement the business model of the UNITA micro-credentials.
Use micro-credentials as a contribution to the UNITA financial sustainability.
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Chart the current state of play of teachers training offer within the alliance.
Include the new partners of the alliance in the existing UNITA Teaching and Learning Centres Network.
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Define the UNITA strategy for teaching enhancement and the teacher training offer. Build a common training model. Select the most relevant topics and skills for the teacher training from the analysis of teachers' needs carried out in UNITA Teaching & Learning Centers Network during the pilot phase and in the ConnectUnita project which looks at the university of the future from the digital and pedagogical transformation perspective. This selection will be based on a needs analysis, in particular to improve the teachers' competences in the challenge-based and STEAM approaches, and to support them in the development of the UNITA teaching activities (BIP, Virtual mobility, UCIL and micro-credentials).
Develop the UNITA teacher training offer.
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Implement the teacher multi-series training and award badges. Collect the trainees' feedbacks on the quality of training and on the application acquired competences in educational activities. Collect feedbacks from students regarding their learning experience and the impact of teacher training on learning. Adjust the teacher training approach.
Implement and test the UNITA teacher training.
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Once set the requirements of the call for innovative projects in education, launch the call and select and finance the best projects to be implemented.
Launch yearly calls on Innovation in Learning & Teaching.
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Focused on sharing best practises and creating new knowledge to advance the teacher training domain. Disseminate to other alliances and universities.
Develop the UNITA communities of practice.
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Open-source solutions that have already proven their viability in the first phase of implementation of projects dedicated to the development of European University Alliances will be taken over and customized. Analyse and draw lessons for the development of the UNITA Inter-university Digital Campus of the pilot phase. Studying the solutions of other multi-lingual, multi-site and multi-modal lifelong learning environments and the ones implemented by other university alliances, through the exchange of experience and the examples of good practice presented in FOREU2, especially in the digital services and data sharing subgroup. In this way, open-source solutions that have already proven their viability in the first phase of implementation of projects dedicated to the development of European University Alliances will be taken over and customized. Analyse and draw lessons for the development of the UNITA Inter-university Digital Campus of the pilot phase.
Set up the UNITA inter-university digital campus.
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The actions will correlate naturally and consist of identification, analyse and validation of the requirements for the multi-modal digital campus as a whole and as regards romance languages intercomprehension and teaching, the UNITA comprehensive course cartography, learning and mobility support services, R&I and outreach projects. The partners will agree on the interfaces and standards and the degree of in- and out-sourcing to partner IT units, the UNITA Legal Entity and third parties.
Set the specifications of the inter-university digital campus.
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The creation phase of the digital campus will be an iterative process, integrating services one by one, and testing them one by one, in an agile way. Make the beta version of the digital campus available; test the beta version in specific case-scenarios across partners and missions in education, R&I and outreach; collect and assess feedback from students, academic staff, support staff, lifelong learners, territorial actors; accommodate the functionalities to the feedbacks; intensify and widen digital campus use and functionalities by systematically adding new services when ready. Collect and assess feedback from students, academic staff, support staff, lifelong learners, territorial actors. Accommodate the functionalities to the feedbacks.
Implement and test the UNITA inter-university digital campus in a continuous monitoring and follow-up approach.
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The Smart Specialization Strategies of all UNITA regions will be mapped, as well as the ways in which each university is aligned with them. Synergies among the strategies will be identified, as well as synergies with the UNITA thematic hubs of Task 4.2. A general layout of each innovation ecosystem will be portrayed, categorizing each agent according to their role in the quadruple helix model. Particular attention will be paid to the interaction mechanisms between the universities and the rest of actors (interfaces). This introductory analysis, complemented with the findings of the InnoUNITA project, will set the general framework for the in-depth analysis and connection carried out in the rest of the Task activities, which will focus on four innovation domains: entrepreneurship, industry-oriented teaching and learning, technology transfer and science dissemination.
Chart the cartography of the smart specialization strategies and ecosystems.
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We will continue connecting and sharing incubators and accelerators for start-ups and spin-offs, as well as entrepreneurship promotion and training programs, seminars, and mentoring. A special emphasis will be placed on the incorporation of the new members of the alliance to the network and on the development of inter-territorial teams and entrepreneurial projects.
Enlarge and reinforce the UNITA entrepreneurship network created in the InnoUNITA project.
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We will chart and connect the educational programs, services, and activities that UNITA universities run in cooperation with public authorities, regional clusters, companies, and NGOs. This will include upskilling and reskilling programs for companies, in line with the European Skills Agenda, challenge-based education programs and competitions (including industry- driven bachelor and master thesis), and internship allocation services. This connection will lead to cooperative, shared, or joint programs and activities, including in particular the facilitation of Erasmus Internships in local companies for students of partner universities.
Build an industry-driven and challenge-based teaching and learning network.
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We will create a permanent connection among the UNITA technology transfer offices, identifying roles and procedures and sharing best practices and contacts. In collaboration with Task 5.2 and the Legal Entity, a map of research and innovation calls will be identified at regional, national, and European level, in which the actors of the ecosystem (companies, institutions) may participate together with the Universities to promote technology transfer and inter-territorial knowledge sharing. Equipped with the cartography of UNITA researchers and the innovation ecosystems layouts, this network will facilitate the formation of consortia for the different calls. It will also be able to respond to any technological or scientific territorial actor need with all the resources of the vast UNITA research community. Thus, the network will become a relevant actor in the financial sustainability of the alliance.
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This activity follows the path laid by the UNITA Citizen Science (U-night) project. Coordinated with the rest of the networks, the scientific dissemination community will support inter-territorial citizen-science initiatives, share services, and promote science shops, living labs, maker and coworking spaces, and other science dissemination tools.
Enlarge and reinforce the UNITA science dissemination community.
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To include researchers from new and existing partners. Organize a feedback seminar on strategic R&I plans to develop the links between current hubs on new perspectives and thus the updating of the strategic R&I plans, notably the financial endowments of the hubs. An analysis of the publications of all the partners will be performed in order to suggest enrichment of the cartography. This cartography will be continuously updated along the UNITA life, possibly including GEMINAE partners.
Evolve and update the researcher's cartography.
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Test the communication plan on a sample of communication and dissemination priorities per target group and per organization. Analysis of the feedback from the target groups regarding the impact of the multilingual dissemination plan. Verify the results of the communication activities engagement of the audience segments. Social media: publishing regular messages.
Implement and test the Communication Plan.
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In order to establish networks of researchers, making visible their expertise within the alliance and at European level. Organize joint actions to create new thematic hubs to strengthen the impact of the alliance on its territories and beyond, to involve more researchers of all partners, according to a process of co-creation between partners and their stakeholders. An analysis of the publications of all the partners will help identifying scientific themes to which the alliance can contribute significantly in terms of critical size and excellence. Matching events will be organised to define within the academic communities the new joint research projects, and to strengthen exchanges with the partners of the UNITA ecosystem. Accompany the development of the Hubs by a common organizational design based on previous best practices. Each Hub will organize workshops during the project, both on-line and face-to-face, open to socio-economic partners.
Design, implement and deploy the new hubs and reinforce the existing ones.
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Piloted and fine-tuned during actions and events gathering researchers, students, citizens, industry and NGOs representatives. A forum will be organized to share good practices to promote FAIR data development and to incite researchers to open science in line with the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (COARA). New actions aiming at disseminating research results will be developed by mobilizing original tools (videos, comics, STEAM approach, etc.).
Develop common principles, rules, and procedures informing UNITA Open Science research policy.
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Within which research activities will be conducted jointly around an identified program. These emerging centres will embed inter-territorial interfaces (T4.1) shared infrastructures (T4.3) and graduate schools (T4.4) and will operate "outdoor" or/and with physical location. They could give rise to European and national labels of excellence, such as the IRL label of the CNRS in France.
Evolve this common basic organization into more institutionalized international research centres.
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Exchange of good practices regarding the management and sharing of infrastructures. Draw lessons for the further development and sharing of infrastructures and related serviced.
Complete and update the mapping of partners infrastructures and related services developed by Re-UNITA.
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Agree on UNITA preferential fees, fee waivers and the allotment of costs. Prioritise access focusing on major and complementary infrastructures that have a greater potential of being used by all the partners (including Associated Partners and GEMINAE network) relevant to the alliance focus area in education and R&I aiming to become part of a European infrastructure project repository.
Consolidate the model for sharing research infrastructures and services, based on a decentralized management and Open Data approaches.
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To enable researchers work, in priority on multi-partner projects, and also to address gaps in infrastructure, making proposals for longer-term solutions, involving national, private and EU funding. Set up an interactive user-friendly platform for infrastructure sharing in the UNITA inter-university digital campus to create a UNITA "scientific marketplace" and facilitate matchmaking partnerships, including training on infrastructures use. Implement and test the procedures for the systemic sharing of services and infrastructures and granting mutual access to facilities.
Launch regular calls to co-finance access to infrastructures.
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Needed and the procedures being put in place to realise them at each partner institution and accommodate them legally, technically, and financially to develop a UNITA corporate identity of shared research services and infrastructures.
Assess the necessary system modifications.
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To reach an integration of the areas of research capacities into the shared UNITA corporate identity. The widening process will integrate in the network the facilities provided by Associated Partners and GEMINAE partners.
Enhance the system by adapting necessary changes and intensifying the sharing of services and infrastructures.
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Collect and chart current master and doctoral training activities (in the partner institutions and in a sample of other organisations), subject-specific (in the alliance focus areas) or horizontal, in particular those that tackle challenges of immediate relevance to communities and regional development. Cross-examine possibilities for inter- regional synergies.
Collect and chart current master and doctoral training activities.
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Define standards for the elected UGS programmes to award them the UNITA label. The elected programmes elaborate on existing courses in alliance focus areas and include subject-specific trainings validated by the alliance research hubs. They are designed following the EU principles for innovative doctoral training (for both the master and doctoral levels) and include mandatory mobility. Agree on actions to develop and inter-connect partners master and doctoral education programmes, such as joint "doctoriales", summer schools, "My three-minute thesis" competition, etc. Define the selection process of the UGS candidates considering the HRS4R principles. Promote the enrolment in the UGS master programmes among the alliance and the GEMINAE network. Refine existing PhD co-tutelles schemes. Apply to Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (Cofunds, Doctoral Network) and Erasmus Mundus joint master programmes.
Define standards for the eligibility of learning programmes for the UGS.
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Identify strengths and weaknesses of the implementation. Assess attractiveness and impact of programmes, procedures, and inter-connectivity of the UGS. Rely on the GEMINAE network and beyond to intensify dissemination of the UGS programmes. Study potential enlargement of the UGS of other research areas.
Progressively implement the UGS in the UNITA focus areas.
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Carry out a survey of activities, content and formats carried out in the first part of the project. Identify any gaps in the communication developed in the first phase. Share and integrate Communication Officers' work methodologies with new partners. Identify possible new communication channels.
Chart current practices of communication and dissemination.
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Identify people, organizations or groups that can be positively affected by UNITA at local, regional, national and international levels. Identify stakeholders interests, motivations, and priorities. Identify stakeholders role and level of influence. Define strategies to engage relevant stakeholders and keep their attention constant. Publish map online.
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Update and develop a multilingual communication plan. Implement an internal procedure to collect information. Create common harmonized formats and templates to be used by partners through different media channels considering the type of information and user. Create a common events agenda. Create harmonised communication tools and strategies at alliance and partner level.
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Establish a collaborative activity with the communication departments of each partner. Harmonization of the format and use of identity marks of UNITA and respective members. Promote the use of inclusive and positive language. Create narratives that create empathy.
Contribute to increasing the sense of belonging to UNITA of our university communities.
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The new partners of the alliance will be introduced to the UNITA Sustainability Plan developed in the pilot phase. The existing fundraising strategies of partners, existing calls in other countries and potential synergies and areas of collaboration will be pooled as well.
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An economic model will be co-created and further embraced in the UNITA legal entity used as a tool to channel and manage third-party funding. This economic model will guide the development of a common financial methodology correlated with the European policies. In the case of applications to common projects, clear procedures and requirements will be defined to be considered a part of the "UNITA Constellation" . Other lighter cooperation paths, including projects participated by UNITA members, agreements, consultancy, and any other financial source will be also defined. Particular attention will be paid to the UNITA micro-credentials and other educational activities and training for lifelong learners (Task 3.2), as well as to the opportunities and needs detected in the interaction with the local ecosystems ( Task 4.1)
Define the economic model and common financial methodology.
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To strengthen the UNITA economic model, a joint structure, UNITA Project Engine Office, will be created within the Legal Entity, as a new common structure among member universities for systemic cooperation. Its effort will be focused on consultancy, on identifying alternative funding sources, on finding and classifying different calls (project scouting) and on the development of fundraising campaigns. This will include consultancy services by UNITA experts in various fields; partner searching to streamline consortium building using suitable databases (e. g. cartography of research, Task 4.2, or local ecosystem layouts, Task 4.1); connecting external financing opportunities with the education, research and innovation within UNITA; and identifying the needs for lifelong learners and the update of the UNITA micro-credentials offer (Task 3.2). The opportunities created by companies or institutions interested in supporting the innovative solutions provided by the partner universities will be made available to our community. Also, stimulating the Alumni communities to contribute to maintaining the level of excellence of the UNITA European University is another focus of this activity. In the first months of operation, the UNITA Project Engine Office will be supported by a consulting/training service provided by a highly qualified expert in the field of Higher Education strategic fundraising opportunities, selected as sub-contractor following public procurement procedures.
Set up and run the UNITA Project Engine Office.
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Each activity, output and profit-generating initiative will be monitored from a financial perspective, providing feedback for the improvement of the Sustainability Plan and for the refinement of the common financial methodology.
Implement the UNITA Sustainability Plan and refine the common financial methodology.
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A benchmarking of green strategies across the UNITA alliance will be carried out, identifying key alignments and potential pooling of resources. Discussions will be held to unify criteria and clarify concepts. Partners will exchange best practises on green sustainability and the environment-focused curricula will be analysed to identify areas of collaboration. The Green UNITA project, a joint initiative prepared during UNITA firs phase, will be used as starting point.
Create the general framework of the green sustainability approach for UNITA actions.
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This action plan, aligned with the European green deal, and shaped by widely accepted and state-of-the-art metrics for universities, will define the main actions and initiatives with a potential impact on the green sustainability of UNITA. It will suggest sustainability and energy efficiency topics to be introduced into the curricula, promote sustainable mobility as an alliance priority, and seek to create a culture of sustainability in the UNITA community. In addition, it will discuss measures to reduce carbon footprint and energy consumption within UNITA, and present possible targets.
Design the UNITA Green Sustainability Action Plan.
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With the purpose of preparing the graduates to address sustainability challenges in their future profession, short courses or modules on sustainability topics will be designed and offered for BA and MA students in collaboration with the academic responsible of the degrees. A redesign of existing courses to include the sustainability perspective in them will be also encouraged. Prizes for the best master's thesis on sustainability will be awarded. An offer of short courses or micro-credentials on green sustainability will be offered to lifelong learners.
Introduce sustainability topics into the students' curricula.
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In cooperation with Task 2.4 (mobility) and interacting with students and staff, the most sustainable and healthy ways of transport between UNITA Campuses and around them will be identified and promoted. Green mobility will be adopted as the preferred type, and incentives to promote it will be introduced in all UNITA calls.
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Create a culture of sustainability in daily life, education, research and innovation. Different events, round tables and debates will be organized, including common events such as the "UNITA Day of Nature" , Challenge- based / Hands-on Workshops staff weeks, sustainability hackathons, or the "Sustainable Campus" Contest for the most innovative idea on how to make campuses more sustainable. In cooperation with Task 2.1, student organizations promoting sustainability will be connected.
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Chart and examine with experts what methods are best suited to measure the impact of Task outputs on internal and external target groups (e.g for impact on students: the European Graduate Tracking Initiative) and stakeholders and notably the specific indicators we defined under each Task.
Identify the methods for impact measurement.
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Discuss methods of impact measurement (e.g., surveys) with Task teams and end users such as students, academic and administrative staff and other stakeholders. Agree on a process owners and calendar to conduct measurements data collection. Design an impact monitoring dashboard supporting and leading UNITA strategies decision bodies.
Design methodology, data collection and interfaces dashboard principles.
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Involving one-third of long-term vision strategies. Expand the test to two-thirds of long-term vision strategies and use the results to participate to an external impact monitoring system.
Implement and test first series of impact measurements.
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On the impact measurement methodology and their results. Accommodate the impact measurement methodology to the feedback received
Collect and assess feedback from target groups and stakeholders.
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And use the results toparticipate to an external impact monitoring system and share with other alliances and networks in Europe and beyond,including the European Higher Education Observatory.
Intensify and widen the impact measurement methodology to all strategies.
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Chart and examine current inter- alliance and international collaborations of all the partners. Introduce the new ones: to the FOREU2 network of the 24 European Alliances of the 2nd wave; to the students of European universities meetings; and to the European universities' community. Redefine with the new UNITA partners the list of universities involved in the GEMINAE initiative, adding to it new partners that can bring an added value to the Alliance. Then design the UNITA international relations policy strategy and plan according to the UNITA priority fields in education, R&I and capacity building (Tasks 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2). Create an action plan for the following years.
Introduce the new partners to the UNITA international network.
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In order to integrate progressively the GEMINAE universities in UNITA different activities we will offer to GEMINAE partners, among others: virtual (namely UCIL, intercomprehension courses) and physical mobility programmes for students and staff (including KA171); rural mobility opportunities for UNITA students in their countries; participation in staff weeks on relevant thematic and best-practices exchanges; access to the thematic research cartography; or procedures to exchange and cooperate on shared funding opportunities, including the collaboration with other alliances.
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To exchange good practices, raise issues, propose solutions and present the UNITA model of institutionalized European University. Particularly two in presence biennial meetings with GEMINAE partners, possibly in parallel with a major international event (such as EAIE), will be organized (M23, M47), also for the granting of the Best Practises Award. Discuss in a forum or workshop with the European Commission, the National Authorities, and other Alliances the role, the governance and the mission of European Universities. Interact with European Associations of Universities, and especially those focused in UNITA themes.
Participate and organize inter-alliance events.
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In collaboration with Task 5.4 on the impact of the actions undertaken. Accommodate the impact measurement methodology to the feedback received.
Collect and assess feedback from target groups and end-users.
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