The aims of the TRANSLITERACY project are to understand how teenagers are learning outside the school and to introduce those experiences into it. The ethnographic identification and analysis of the (trans)media skills will be at the centre of the research program. Once identified the informal learning strategies applied by young people outside the formal institutions, the team will translate them into a series of proposals to be implemented into the schools. The TRANSLITERACY Project will involve an interdisciplinary group of 25 senior and junior researchers with sound experience in fields such as media literacy, transmedia storytelling, user-generated contents and participatory culture, ludology, traditional and virtual ethnography, pedagogy and innovation in education. The research will focus on the following set of skills: • Problem-solving strategies developed by teens in video gaming (Videogame literacy) • Content creation, production and sharing strategies developed by teens in fan fiction (Participatory culture literacy). • Content creation, production and sharing strategies developed by teens in social media (Web / social networks literacy). The research will focus on 12-18 years old teens, an age characterized by a short but intensive experience in the use of new media and digital technologies. The fieldwork –based on surveys, interviews, focus groups, participant observation, and online activities analysis- will be simultaneously developed in 9 countries: Australia, Colombia, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, and Uruguay. The duration of the research will be 3 years. After mapping the transmedia practices and informal learning strategies the team will produce an open and customizable Teacher’s Kit based on the outputs of the research. The kit will propose learning strategies and activities to be developed with students into the schools.

"With the capacity building project ""DigiUGov"", the project partners aim to make a significant contribution to an inclusive digital transformation at universities in Colombia, Mexico and Europe. By supporting (early stage) researchers, digital teaching and research will be strengthened locally, internationally connected and finally consolidated through the establishment of corresponding structures and governance mechanisms at the participating institutions. With the same objective, the digitalizationof the university administration will be promoted through international exchange and adequate consultation formats. Science managers and representatives of the various status groups at the participating universities are being recognised as key players and their competences are being strengthened. The systematic engagement of civil society actors and relevant companies in the exchange formats and in the implementation projects ensures that the project goals set are accurately and that they can be adapted to the needs of the situation during the project. The capacity-building goal of the project is to enable the establishment of sustainable structures at the partner institutions by involving and activating these groups and through pilot projects."

The main objective of I-MAT is to empower the capacity of Latin American HEIs (Colombia, Peru and Brazil) to attract students and academic and non-academic staff to mobility initiatives, through digital and innovative approaches.The specific objectives are: to bring together key actors in European Countries, responsible for international mobility and cooperation, to better understand the challenges that these three countries are facing to attract students and academic and non-academic staff to mobility initiatives and its exacerbation by the COVID-19 pandemic; Filter the best practices/strategies used in European HEIs to attract the targeted group to mobility initiatives, through digital and innovative approaches; Support Latin American (LA) partner countries in addressing the challenges that their HEIs are facing to attract the focus group to mobility initiatives; Address concrete recommendations and good practices to those involved in mobility initiatives; Create and implement a training framework to strengthen the LA HEIs capacity to attract the targeted group to mobility initiatives, through digital and innovative approaches.The planned activities are distributed among specific work packages dedicated to different phases (Preparation, Development, Implementation and Impact and Dissemination):The preparation phase will include a status report, based on surveys to LA HEIs and Fact-Finding Study Table for EU Partner HEIs on International Mobility. Based on these results, the development phase will focus on innovative tools to attract the targeted group for international mobility (Catalogue of Innovative Tools of the best European practices and its adaptation to the targeted LA HEIs; International Mobility Interactive App “I-MOB”) and Training programmes in the LA partner HEIs for academics and administrators working with international mobility strategies. The Implementation phase will include activities in the LA HEIs to attract the targeted group to International Cooperation and Mobility.

The NATOUR project is implemented by a consortium of 9 universities – 2 in Colombia, 2 in Chile, 2 in Brazil and 3 in Europe, joined by a consultancy company. 9 non-academic institutions support us as associated partners. Among them are public bodies responsible for tourism sector in the PCs, international unions and associations promoting ecotourism, conservation and sustainable use of the natural resources, ecotourism consultancy and environmental NGO.Needs analysis carried out for this proposal identified a discrepancy between the demand of the ecotourism sector in Colombia, Chile & Brazil for a new type of professional with a wide range of technical, managerial, interpersonal (interpretive) and sustainability skills, and lack of HEI offer of study programmes that could prepare such specialists. The project addresses this gap by setting the objective to develop, validate and implement a joint PC-EU HEIs’ post-graduate study programme in ecotourism and interpretive nature guiding in line with national and sectoral priorities of the PCs and in accordance with EU higher education quality standards.The NATOUR programme lies in the cross field of sustainable management and use of natural resources, protection of ecosystems, ecotourism entrepreneurship and heritage interpretation. It will prepare a new type of graduates who will be able to plan and manage nature-based tourism in a sustainable way, start a business in the ecotourism sector, develop and deliver ecotourism products to customers, and act as interpretive nature guides. This post-graduate course of 30 ECTS will allow for joint PC-EU HEIs’ delivery, student mobility, transfer of credits, joint recognition of learning outcomes and award of qualifications. Students who will complete it successfully will receive a professional Diploma from the PC HEIs and EU Certificate of Interpretive Nature Guide from European Association for Heritage Interpretation.