Realizacja projektu była kontynuacją intensywnych działań nawiązujących do strategii internacjonacjonalizacji uczelni Beneficjenta. Celami projektu było zwiększenie mobilności studentów oraz pracowników uczelni; umożliwienie uczestnikom mobilności pozyskania nowych umiejętności i kompetencji; wzbogacenie oferty dydaktycznej uczelni prowadzonej w języku angielskim oraz transfer dobrych praktyk w zakresie organizacji i zarządzania nowoczesną instytucją o profilu międzynarodowym.W projekcie udział wzięło 35 uczestników:25 studentów i 10 pracowników. 14 studentów wyjechało na praktykę, a 11 studentów zrealizowało semestr studiów. Na studia wyjechał 1 student studiów II st. kierunek zarządzanie, 4 studentów st.I stopnia kierunek stosunki międzynarodowe, 2 studentów studiów I st. kierunek zarządzanie, oraz 4 studentów studiów I st. kierunek informatyka. Z wyjazdów na praktykę skorzystało 14 studentów w tym 3 studentów studiów II stopnia z kierunków zarządzanie, oraz 11 studentów studiów I stopnia z kierunków stosunki międzynarodowe, zarządzanie, informatyka, bezpieczeństwo narodowe i filologia angielska.W kategorii wyjazdy kadry trzech pracowników wyjechało w celu prowadzenia wykładów w uczelni partnerskiej (w tym 1 wyjazd z grantem 0), a siedmiu pracowników wyjechało w celach szkoleniowych z uwagi na większe zainteresowanie kadry uczelni beneficjenta tym rodzajem mobilności. W mobilności kadry udział wzięli pracownicy naukowi (6 osób) i administracyjni (4 osoby).W związku z realizacją projektu uczelnia realizowała działania promocyjne, organizacyjne i upowszechniające. Do działań promocyjnych należało prowadzenie kampanii informacyjnej, która obejmowała m.in. organizację spotkań informacyjnych, produkcję materiałów informacyjnych, zamieszczenie informacji w internecie.Działania organizacyjne obejmowały obsługę umów międzyinstytucjonalnych, rekrutację uczestników, organizację wyjazdów studentów uczelni Beneficjenta, organizację pobytu studentów z uczelni Partnerskich, regularny monitoring i ewaluację postępu realizacji projektu. Działania upowszechniające rezultaty projektu prowadzone były w uczelni Beneficjenta i poza nią w celu dzielenia się dobrymi praktykami i doświadczeniem przez uczestników wymiany z innymi osobami.Realizacja projektu przyczyniła się do zwiększenia przez Beneficjenta zdolności współpracy na poziomie międzynarodowym. Wzbogaciła się i zwiększyła jakość dostępnej oferty dydaktycznej uczelni w języku angielski. Udoskonalone zostały również procesy obsługi studentów realizujących swoje wyjazdy w ramach programu Erasmus+. Project delivery was in line with University internationalization strategy. It was aimed to increase mobility of students and staff; to enable mobility participants acquisition of new skills and competences; to enrich university didactical offer in English language and to transfer best practices in the scope of organization and management of international institution. 35 participants from Beneficiary organization were covered with mobility activities:25 students and 10 staff. 14 students did mobility for placement and 11 students did mobility for study. As a result of selection procedure, 1 student of master in management, 4 students of bachelor in International Relacions, 2 students of bachelor in management and 4 students of bachelor in computer science took advantage of Erasmus+ mobility for study. 14 students did mobility for placement, including 3 students of master in management and 11 students of bachelor in management, international relations, computer science, national security and English philology. 3 staff from Beneficiary organization did staff mobility for teaching (1 with 0 grant) and 7 staff did mobility for training which was due to increase in training mobility among staff. Staff mobility was shared by both academic and administrative staff. Activities undertaken by Beneficiary organization to deliver this project included promotion, organization of mobility and dissemination of project results. Promotion included information activities addressed to students and staff carried out by delivery of information meetings, distribution of advertising materials and information about Erasmus+ academic mobility published in Internet. Organizational activities included management of interinstitutional agreements, selection of mobility participants, organization of outbound and inbound mobilities, regular monitoring and evaluation of mobility activities and project timeline and budget. Dissemination activities to share project results with other stakeholders were carried out inside and outside Beneficiary organization.The project provided for increase in Beneficiary organization capacity to work on international level, enhanced educational offer in English language. The project provided also for improvement of quality of mobility service addressed both to inbound and outbound students and staff.

Project „Knowledge without Borders – Inovative Methods of Teaching Adults” took place between 1 December 2016 and 30 November 2018. It was funded by EU Commission under programme Erasmus+ Action 2: Strategic Partnership, project number 2016-1-PL01-KA204-026669.Project has been carried out by four partners:1.WSB University (before 15 April 2018 known as The University of Dąbrowa Górnicza)2.Polish Cultural and Educational Union in Czech Republic,3.Polish Cultural and Educational Union “Rodacy” in Lativia, 4.Polish and Lithuanian Scientists Society in Lithuania.The theme of the project concerned transcultural and transgenerational long-life learning as well as elements of research and innovation for improvement of education quality. The project was coordinated by WSB University which has a well-grounded experience in education of adults and significant achievements in recurrent education. The university has been using professional e-learning systems in academic and non-formal education for years. The rest of the partners have experience in non-formal education that they wanted to further develop in the project as well as digital competence and network cooperation.Project was run by three international teams, which were composed of representatives of partner organisations (i. e. young person and senior) and worked under the supervision of mentors – academic staff from WSB University – in a system of transgenerational, international and trans sector cooperation. The partners used communicative-level Polish which allowed them to conduct their ideas freely. During the on-line consultations and four international project meetings the participants of the project got to know non-formal education system of adults, building of a e-learning platform and had a chance to consult the ideas of creating their own, pilot e-learning courses. The outcome of 2 years of carrying out the project was the achievement of the following intellectual results:1.The creation of free-of-charge and widely available e-learning platform used in non-formal education of adults www.wiedzabezbarier.eu, that allows for educators and adults to create their own courses (innovative aspect),2.The creation and placement on the e-learning platform of three pilot Polish language courses positioned on different levels of advancement and adapted to needs of the recipients of at least three different partner countries: Lithuania, Latvia and the Czech Republic allowing beginner level learning of Polish, in addition to simplifying education in the field of language culture, which is useful for Polish people from different countries as well as for foreign people. 3.The creation and placement on the e-learning platform of two pilot courses: “Entrepreneurship 101” and ITC courses.4. The creation and placement on the e-learning platform of two e-handbooks: for users of the e-learning platform and for creators of courses for the e-learning platform,5.The creation of innovative methodology of non-formal education in e-learning system in a scientific-social partner mode of transgenerational, international and trans sector character (i. e. presuppositions and boundary conditions of implementation, procedures, technical requirements and requirements in the field of ITC competences of users, patterns of behaviour, recommendations and good practices etc.)The priorities established in the application form have been completed:-The educators of adults (members of project teams) have broaden and developed ITC competences and skills required to use modern e-learning platform dedicated to non-formal education,-an effective offer for improvement of basic skills and other key competences has been developed and implemented thanks to non-formal education in a form of e-learning for all potential users interested in such a form of education, no matter where they live (the ability to receive access to the implemented e-learning platform),-better basic and high-level basic skills were mastered in the perspective of lifelong learning, expanding the network of cooperation between organizations and institutions using the emerging innovative e-learning system in the field of non-formal education outside the project Partnership, i.e. in organizations and institutions from partner countries. -At the end of the project, an international conference disseminating the results of intellectual work was organized in Poland. Representatives of all the partners of the project took part in it. During the conference, courses placed on the e-learning platform were presented. The conference was also a chance for representatives of networks of organizations active in the field of adult education in Poland and partner countries to meet.