WORK PACKAGES

WP1. Management and Coordination

• Project management and coordination
• Organizing and implementing project transnational meetings and Rectors' Assembly meetings
• Planning, monitoring and reporting

WP2. Cooperation Model, Quality Assurance System, and Evaluation

• Setting up the strategic guidelines of INVEST cooperation and joint development
• Establishing the joint structure and bodies and adopting common rules for quality assurance, internal evaluation and impact assessment
• Developing a common Quality Assurance System (QAS) and the impact assessment tools
• Evaluation of the reached impact in terms of project target groups and HEI learning practices at partners’ countries and on EU level
• Seeking the establishment of an International agency for quality assurance in higher education (IAQAHE).

WP3. Study programs, courses, learning strategies, and supporting tools

• Establishment of a WP 3 team
• Accreditation frame work
• Design and implementation of a model for joint degrees
• Design and implementation of joint degrees ( Bachelor, Master and Doctor level). centered around the focal points of INVEST.
• Design and implementation of new appropriate innovative teaching, learning and learning strategies
• Design and implementation of integrated, multidisciplinary modules, using innovative teaching and learning strategies for the joint degree programs
• Development of a repository of digital and paper teaching and learning tools and materials
• Creating conditions for multilingual studies and language skills improvement through the offering of foreign languages courses and training in different languages according to the learners’ preferences choice
• Co-development of lifelong learning courses including in-service trainings and flexible study paths with the associated partners and stakeholder in the fields of the focal points of INVEST including In-service trainings and flexible study paths
• Offering topical winter and summer schools, research projects and field studies.
• Establishing a link between ECTS and ECVET on the bases of learning outcomes recognition
• Transferring know-how between partners
• To adapt and implement the EDUC8EU digital framework for recognition of credits and study planning by individual students and staff
• Establishing a living lab in each of the INVEST Universities
• Organizing meetings with civic society and the relevant associated partners to formulate the regional sustainable knowledge agenda.
• Developing and implementing applied research projects and field studies, within the framework of the regional sustainable knowledge agenda’s

WP4. Co-creation of student and staff competencies and sustainable INVEST tools

• International interregional degree and non-degree program pilot tool
• Physical and digital mobilities
• Winter and summer schools
• Life-Long learning activities, trainings and flexible study paths
• Student services including enrolment and accreditation
• Knowledge management pathway
• Learning community

WP5. Sustainability and dissemination

• Dissemination and Communication
• Stakeholder Community Engagement & Coordination with relevant EU initiatives
• Roadmap and policy recommendation for EU
• Exploitation Strategy & Sustainability Plan