"In line with its objectives, the mobility project realised by the West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin (WPUT) in the academic year 2017/2018 in the framework of Erasmus+ programme, Higher Education Action 1 Learning Mobility of Individuals contributed significantly to implementation of WPUT's institutional internationalisation strategy 2013-2020, the following objectives in particular: 1) increasing the number of students outgoing for study and placements abroad, 2) increasing access to internationalisation at home for non-mobile students through exchange of academic teachers realising teaching assignments enhancing their international teaching competencies and 3) enhancing quality of student and staff mobility through staff training periods abroad increasing key competencies of internationalisation processes. The project covered 158 flows of WPUT's students and staff members including:- 59 outgoing flows for one- or two-semester study period at partner universities abroad,- 32 outgoing flows for traineeship at partner institutions or enterprizes abroad, including 23 student and 9 recent graduate flows,- 55 outgoing flows of academic teachers conducting teaching activities at partner universities abroad,- 12 flows of staff members completing training periods at universities and enterprizes abroad.WPUT's students completed 59 study periods including 39 flows within the 1st and 20 flows within the 2nd study cycle. Mobility for traineeship purposes covered 32 flows, including 10 flows within the 1st, 7 flows within the 2nd and 6 flows within the 3rd study cycle as well as 9 flows completed by recent graduates. WPUT's academic teachers completed 55 teaching periods abroad. The participants included 10 junior staff members (four of them mobile twice), 26 intermediate (five of them twice) and 19 senior staff members (five of them twice).Staff mobility for training purposes covered 12 flows, out of which 6 were realised by non-teaching staff. The participants included 6 senior (one mobile twice), 4 intermediate and 2 junior staff members.The total of 18 students with disadvantaged background (low family income) took part in mobility for study and traineeship purposes.In addition, in the academic year covered by the project 218 incoming Erasmus+ students completed a one- or two-semester study period at WPUT.As the result of the project, the participating students acquired knowledge, skills and international competencies significantly enhancing their employability on the domestic and international labour market. The participating staff members acquired skills and enhanced competencies considered essential for internationalisation processes at the home institution and for ensuring high quality of academic mobility.The completed project has had the following impact on the West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, being in line with its strategy of internationalisation:- increased number of outgoing students and staff,- increased number of students incoming for study purposes,- enriched educational offer,- increased level of internationalisation ""at home"",- strengthened and expanded network of partnerships essential for quality international educational projects,- increased capacity for international cooperation projects with special emphasis on development of joint study programmes,- strengthened WPUT's image and better visibility in Poland and abroad.The following long-term benefits, being in line with WPUT's strategy of internationalisation and the EU's modernisation and internationalisation agenda in higher education, are expected:- enhanced quality of teaching achieved through including innovative content and teaching methods into the offered study programmes as well as better programme adjustment to the labour market requirements,- increased number of students having access to internationalisation ""at home"",- enhanced WPUT's participation in international bilateral and multilateral cooperation projects with special emphasis on development of joint study programmes,- enhanced research and educational activities carried out in cooperation with partner institutions abroad,- enhanced cooperation of higher education institutions and business partners,- enhanced modernisation of WPUT, including improved management of its resources,- enhanced attractiveness of Polish and European higher education."

SEAFOODTOMORROW aims to validate and optimize commercial solutions for improving the socioeconomic and environmental sustainability of the seafood production and processing industry, while contributing to product quality and safety. Activities will focus on the sustainable production and processing of nutritious and safe seafood products through the demonstration and first application in the market of eco-innovative, sustainable solutions of marine and aquaculture-derived food products and nutrients. The proposal will take into account impacts across different regions and population segments, as well as the specificities of different types of seafood. Activities will include among others: utilization of agro and seafood byproducts to develop sustainable feeds for aquaculture enabling the production of tailor made products fortified with specific essential nutrients for consumers, assess the feasibility of salt replacers in seafood, validate digestible, attractive, functional and nutritionally adapted seafood for senior people and youths, validate strategies to prevent/remove contaminants from seafood, and optimize sensors and biosensors for the assessment of safety, among others. The consortium expects strengthening the wider utilization of eco-innovative solutions, as a result of greater user acceptance, higher visibility of these innovative solutions and creation of scalable markets, and increasing the availability of healthier seafood to improve consumers' diet and health. The consortium is built on interdisciplinary research teams of 19 RTDs involved, renowned by its top-quality applied technological development and with strong and cohesive links gathered in previous funded activities (e.g. FP7 ECsafeSEAFOOD), thus anticipating successful outcomes. In addition, 4 IAGs and 13 SMEs with diverse and complementary interests in the solutions under validation and optimization will also integrate the consortium.

Engineering education is a combination of theory and practice. The practical education is mostly given to students by engineering laboratory hours, by projects and rarely by ICT tools. Engineering laboratories may be hands-on labs with real instruments, simulated or virtual labs; remote or distributed learning labs or a mixture of all above.The need to increase the integration of digital interactive learning resources to pedagogic strategy has been clearly established at European level: the EU-wide framework for education and training includes the priority, “improving the quality and efficiency of education and training”, and the HEI Modernization Agenda, recommendation 11 states, “HEIs should support their teachers so they develop the skills for online and other forms of teaching and learning opened up by the digital era”. There are wide benefits for investments in the uptake of technology in education, on the student side. By engaging with more complex digital learning platforms in the classroom and beyond, students will be better placed to become productive, innovative employees or entrepreneurs. The aim of ESCOLA is to develop a new supportive digital learning environment for engineering laboratory classes to help students to understand and evaluate engineering applications in practice. This learning environment is designed and introduced for engineering teachers who use laboratories for their courses, so that they can efficiently improve the quality of learning experience for students with the help of visual and interactive tools. The environment is based on an extensive desk study and research based on available sources, assessment of them from pedagogical and technological viewpoints, a needs/capacity analysis to understand the background and needs of the users and a well-defined methodology constructed by the framework. The designed and launched learning environment is presented by learning activities, multiplier events and piloting sessions, the feedback driven from the end-users and beneficiaries were considered and necessary updates were made on the beta version. The project is carried out by a balanced consortium of 7 partners from Turkey, Bulgaria, Denmark, Ireland, Poland, The Netherlands, and Spain including universities, research institutions, SMEs and foundations. All partners have valuable networks, access to dissemination platforms and relations with higher education institutes in their region so that the realisation and dissemination of project results were facilitated. In the long term, the ESCOLA learning environment will be more adopted as a strategy for course development by the lecturers, laboratory experts and university administrations. It is obvious that in the future the outcomes of this project may also be extended to other subjects, education levels or to other target groups such as VET or other technical education training programmes.