More specifically, our project will address the following objectives:

• Meet the needs of integration of learning management systems and learning spaces of students and teachers of UNITA alliance institutions and future associated partners, in order to break down geographical, linguistic and temporal barriers and support collaborative digital learning spaces. For this purpose an Integration platform offering an innovative solution of automatic translation and geographical distribution services of learning contents and synchronous or asynchronous monitoring of students by teachers in the framework of international cooperations will be designed and developed.ocesses. To address these major challenges, CONNECT-UNITA aims to offer technical and methodological solutions to support the different actors in teaching and learning processes towards the new era of digital transformation of higher education, thus reducing existing gaps and maximizing inclusion. The European UNITA alliance offers an ideal framework for the development of this project, as it integrates, on the one hand, common elements such as the situation of our institutions in rural and mountainous cross-border regions of southern, central, and eastern Europe; the promotion of Romance languages as common academic languages, thus favoring inclusion; the development of strong links in education and research in 3 strategic axes: cultural heritage, renewable energies and circular economy; Moreover, transnational cooperation between our institutions offers us an ideal context to design and implement a digital and pedagogical transformation strategy enabling the reconciliation of geographical, linguistic, temporal and social barriers, and to promote cooperation and experimentation by bringing together the stakeholders involved in the project of creating European universities and offers a springboard for its dissemination and transfer to other alliances and international cooperation networks.

• Provide a unified framework to guide teachers in the digital and pedagogical transformation in the creation or adaptation of learning resources and activities in order to remove barriers that limit international collaboration in teaching and learning. This framework will provide both a methodology and a technical-pedagogical model aimed at integrating the geographical, multilingual and hybrid learning dimensions and at fostering international collaboration in course construction and delivery.

• Create a living international teaching and learning Lab for teachers and students of the UNITA alliance, as well as for the international community, thanks to the co-design and co-production of courses, oriented both to transfer and multiplication of competences in technical and pedagogical innovation as well as in priority themes for the UNITA alliance (cultural heritage, renewable energies and circular economy). The teaching and learning living lab will also allow the development of virtual mobilities between the members of the UNITA consortium as well as other external members and will offer a space for cooperation in pedagogical and digital innovation.