The 3rd Transnational Project Meeting was organized by UPPA partner in France, an important meeting took place on 15-17 January, between the partners of the European project Connect-UNITA.
DATE: From 15- 17 January 2025
LOCATION: Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (UPPA), Campus Montaury, Anglet, France
TARGET AUDIENCE: Allproject partners.
GOAL
The main objective of this 3rd Transnational Project Meeting was to prepare for the end of the Connect-UNITA project.
The agenda focused on the following main points:
Project Results deliverables: Elaboration and publication on Connect-UNITA Wiki
Simultaneous Multiplier Events: Organization & Communication
Final reporting: technical, administrative, and financial aspects
Project evaluation: WP Leader & Co-Leader, and members satisfaction
Connect-UNITA Platform: Long-term future and potential use after the project.
From September 20 to 22, 2023, UPPA organized a conference with all GEMINAE NETWORK partners. During this three-day event, 60 participants from 25 universities, including 15 GEMINAE associate university partners and 10 UNITA member universities, shared ideas, best practices, and strategies in the fields of teaching, research, innovation, and languages.
DATE: From 20th to 22nd September 2023
LOCATION: Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (UPPA), Campus Pau, France
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Fucape Business School, Brazil
Institut 2iE, Burkina Faso
Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Universidad Católica de Colombia, Colombia
Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico
Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil
Universidade Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Université d’Antananarivo Madagascar, Madagascar
Université de Boumerdes, Algeria
Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Université Hassan II de Casablanca, Marocco
See the Connect-UNITA website for video testimonials from all GEMINAE participants.
GOAL
The aim of this conference was to enable GEMINAE partners took advantage of this event to learn more about UNITA’s activities and projects under the Erasmus+ program. Feedback workshops on project set-up were organized, with a particular focus on possible partnerships between European and non-European universities.
Participants, after having explored the possibilities for cooperation and received training on the various calls for projects, are now well equipped to seek appropriate funding for future cooperation initiatives.
Connect-UNITA project results have been presented by UPPA and UNIZAR partners to GEMINAE NETWORK members to share solutions for overcoming temporal, geographical and linguistic barriers within the UNITA alliance.
The 1st Transnational Project Meeting was organized by UVT partner at Timișoara in Romania an important meeting took place on 19-21 October, between the partners of the European project Connect-UNITA.
DATE: 19-21 October 2022
LOCATION: Universitatea De Vest Din Timisoara (UTV), Strada Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 16, Timișoara 300115, Romania
TARGET AUDIENCE: Allproject partners
GOAL
The main objective of this 1st Transnational Project Meeting was to prepare for the methodology and pedagogic design framework of the Project Results 2 and the Bip4Bips planning and design.
The agenda focused on the following main topics:
Dissemination and administrative tasks
Demonstration of PR2 methodology: methodology and pedagogic design framework
Presentation of the Bip4Bips proposal : Organization and planning
Workshops on Bip4Bips design: Learning Outcomes, Learning paths, Labs, and assessments.
Connect-UNITA Website: logo, colors, template, and content.
The 3rd Transnational Project Meeting was organized by UNITO partner in ITALY, an important meeting took place on 17-19 October, 2023, between the partners of the European project Connect-UNITA.
DATE: From 17- 19 October 2023
LOCATION: Università degli Studi di Torino (UNITO), Turin, Italy
TARGET AUDIENCE: Allproject partners.
GOAL
The main objective of this 3rd Transnational Project Meeting was to work on the 2nd serie of courses design et the learning rooms connection from 6 partners.
The agenda focused on the following main topics:
PR1, PR2 & PR3: Bip4Bips progression & results, platform, methodology & 1st serie of course
PR3: Proposal, design of 2nd serie of courses production
PR1: Connect UNITA platform: Current state of development and plan for next months.
PR1: Physical learning spaces (Rooms’ presentation and connection from 6 partners)
The Connect-UNITA was presented by Ernesto Exposito, Mamadou Lamine Gueye, and Nicolas Evain from the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (UPPA), who participated to the 2023 European Researchers’ Night in Hendaye, France on Friday September 29, 2023. This remarkable event served as an ideal platform for disseminating the project’s work and connecting with a diverse audience.
A big picture about the evolution of the education, educational challenges, and innovations are presented through a porter.
DATE: Friday September 29, 2023
LOCATION : Château Observatoire Abbadia,Hendaye, France
TARGET AUDIENCE: Diverse audience
GOAL
During the event new pedagogical innovation in the field of education by using the digital innovation for blended learning were presented. In this context the introduction of the Connect-UNITA dimensions for HE for teachers and trainers and its methodology received a significant attention and generated discussions between researches and attendees.
The Erasmus+ France / Education Formation agency is organizing its Erasmus+ Higher Education 2024 days from Monday June 24 1pm to Tuesday June 25 2pm at the Centre des Congrès de la Cité Mondiale in Bordeaux.
UPPA partner with the project coordinator Ernesto EXPOSITO presented the Connect-UNITA project, and shared best practices around DIGITAL INNOVATION SERVING EUROPEAN COOPERATION.
On the Erasmus+ website, you’ll find the “higher education” project collection, presenting Connect-UNITA in a selection of ten Erasmus+ projects involving French higher education establishments. This selection illustrates the diversity of opportunities offered by the “Cooperation” action of the Erasmus+ program, which funds initiatives that are both structuring and innovative.
DATE: From 24- 25 June 2024
LOCATION: Centre des Congrès de la Cité Mondiale in Bordeaux, France
TARGET AUDIENCE : Universities, schools, institutes, high schools with STS programs, CFA for higher education,…
GOAL
During this event, we explained that the various project partners face cooperation difficulties due to geographical, linguistic, and temporal barriers (linked to time zones). To provide solutions, the CONNECT-UNITA project aims to identify digital innovation solutions to help overcome these obstacles. These include blended intensive programmes (BIPs), which combine online learning activities with a period of physical mobility of at least five days.
As part of the CONNECT-UNITA project, coordinated by Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (UPPA), 7 universities met in Bayonne from June 5 to 9, 2023 (the University of Beira Interieur (UBI) and the Polytechnic Institute of Guarda (IPG) in Portugal, the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) and the Public University of Navarre (UPNA) in Spain, the Transilvania University of Brasov (UniTBv) in Romania and the University of Turin in Italy (UNITO)).
Co-design and co-production of learning ressources and activities, integrating Time-Spatial-Linguistic dimensions.
Discussions focused on the central question: “How can we overcome geographical, linguistic and temporal barriers to enable maximum international collaboration within UNITA and beyond?”
LOCATION: Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (UPPA), Campus de la Nive, Bayonne, France
TARGET AUDIENCE : PhD students, researchers, teachers and members of staff from UNITA
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: English
ORGANIZING BOARD : Ernesto Exposito (UPPA), Mamadou GUEYE (UPPA), Philippe Arnould (UPPA) Bruno Silva (UBI), Javier Fabra (UNIZAR), Gabriel Bizoi (UVT), Sorana Cimpan (USMB), Matteo Sacchet (UNITO), Francesco Floris (UNITO), Marina Marchisio, Pedro Inácio (UBI).
GOAL
The aim of this program was to design and implement Blended Intensive Programs (BIP) through the living experience of one BIP in the framework of the Erasmus+ Connect-UNITA project. This BIP4BIPS aims to enable the development of transnational and transdisciplinary programs of study, as well as innovative learning and teaching methods, including online collaboration, research-based learning, and challenge-based approaches, to address societal challenges.
BIP4BIPS enabled participants to share and exchange ideas on innovative teaching and digital practices. Thanks to this scheme, 3 BIPs projects integrating alliance partners from the first and second phases were conceived. It has also served as the basis for the development of future BIPs to be organized by UniTBv, IPG and UPNA.
