Purpose of the Project is to establish south and east European center of excellence for the EU Competition and State aid law and thus to create a missing links between academic institutions from east Europe and beyond. This center would be a regional center and focal point for academic research, teaching, debate and reflection in the field of EU Competition and State aid Law. It will bring together prominent Competition law academics and experts from totally eight (8) countries, two EU Member state countries (Croatia and Italy), three EU candidate countries (Serbia, North Macedonia and Albania) and three EU partner countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova and Tajikistan). Joined under the Project, Project partners will organize and coordinate their resources, lead research activities and promote innovative contributions to the study of the Competition Law topics relevant for EU integration and EU economic interests. Moreover, the Project aims at identifying, discussing and rethinking the convergence issues in these states and their specific response to European policy demands. Special focus will be on Competition law in digital markets, post - COVID 19 Competition law enforcement and State aid rules. Project will reach broad types of beneficiaries: students (graduate and postgraduate); members of academia (university professors of different academic profile); corporate lawyers, national (mostly administrative courts) judges, local and national policy makers, representatives of local of/ and national Government, local business, compliance officers in companies which are regional market leaders. Project will deliver 12 events with at least 500 beneficiaries from 8 countries. Besides that, it is expected that Project will reach totally 1.000 website visitors; 5.000 social media followers and 10.000 people through media coverage in all 8 Project partner states.

Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek (abbreviation used further in the text - UNIOS) as a higher education institution provides study programs and research frameworks within all scientific fields. It strongly focuses on internationalization in all university activities, and it welcomes international students, teachers and staff by constantly seeking to provide high quality framework for exchanges. UNIOS actively participates in European and international cooperation projects, and the Erasmus+ programme is considered as a main tool to achieve internationalization objectives. Therefore, individual mobilities realized in this Erasmus+ project with the partner universities in Armenia, i.e. with the University of Yerevan - YSU, and with the Armenian State University of Economics - ASUE, are a great contribution to promotion of UNIOS world-wide. Individual mobilities of staff and students realized in this Erasmus+ project are in support of UNIOS strategic objectives of international relations development and directly enhance UNIOS international profiling. Within this first Erasmus+ project with partner universities in Armenia, UNIOS is building its capacities to form sustainable partnerships with more distant universities. Incoming students have realized exchange period for the purpose of studying at the University of Osijek in the scientific field of Economics. Although there were only 4 of them, their contribution to the project cooperation was great and their mobility experiences will be used in further cooperation that is already agreed to be realized within the study of entrepreneurship and innovativeness. The experience of incoming students will be surely disseminated among home university students in Armenia to result in raised awareness about the importance of international student exchange programmes, especially of Erasmus+. Participating staff, a total of 3 incoming staff that benefited from this project have realized training or gave lectures at the host UNIOS in the filed of agriculture and economics, and one staff from UNIOS realized training related to the filed of agriculture and wine growing in Armenia. Their experiences gained during the mobility will be useful at home institutions to improve teaching or to support scientific or professional activities in order to develop this initialized cooperation to full extent. Cooperation established in this project will be supported also in the following years.

"Both educational and research components of the ""European support for children at risk of poverty"" project support children who have social and economic barriers linked to discrimination and fewer opportunities by helping students and professionals to address their inclusion and diversity challenges. To help create a supportive environment and enhance capacities of children at risk of poverty, this project builds new and deepens the existing competences of students and professionals that work with children and enables their better professional growth, increases their employability, and provides expertise needed on the labour market. This objective is achieved through summer school and e-training. Both activities are intended for social work students and professionals as well as students and professionals who traditionally do not have content on children living in poverty and EU support mechanisms within their regular curriculum (early childhood education, primary teaching, social pedagogy, pedagogy). Two e-trainings will be delivered to students and professionals from Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo. A publication will be produced as an online available resource for all those willing to make their practices more sensitive for children at risk of poverty and in line with EU guidelines. The summer school will be delivered for Croatian students from diverse professions that work with children. As part of the summer school, five community interventions within geographically diverse areas will be delivered. Through its research component, the project takes on the emerging field of implementation science to help determine the factors and strategies that influence the uptake and use of social mentoring in routine practice settings. The research will contribute to accountability of the social welfare system and the sustainability of social mentoring as well as generate insights that can support EU policymaking when supporting families living in poverty."

The Jean Monnet Module ‘’European Union and Gender Equality’’ responds to known challenges associated with building an inclusive and gender equal European society by providing law-oriented teaching and research in order to improve young peoples’ sense of inclusion and openness, and to raise awareness of young people and general public of an understanding of the European Union context, notably as regards the common EU values, with the emphasis on gender equality and diversity. Activities of the Module include: Teaching: teaching units in the framework of existing 3 courses (Constitutional Law, Basics of Constitutional Law and Introduction to Human Rights) and 2 seminars (Constitutional Law and Introduction to Human Rights) each year (155 hours total),110 students per year: Events: 1 promotional event, 3 workshop a year, and closing conference; Research:6 papers in 3 years written by project staff, 20 conference papers.Methods: IT technologies (PowerPoint presentations, long distance learning), group work, pair work, debates will be applied in teaching approach. The visibility of the JMM will be achieved by the JMM subpage on the Faculty of Law website, the Facebook and Instagram profiles, interviews in local newspapers and radio, by leaflets and posters, by international conference, publishing research results in international journals and the special issue of Pravni vjesnik. Outputs: original curriculum with renewed courses and seminars will be developed. Beneficiaries of the JMM: 50 law students per year, 30 students of Administrative Study Programme per year, 30 students of social work per year, 20 students, academics, local and regional officials, civic organizations representatives per year (workshop), 30 academics, local and regional officials, civic organizations representatives (conference). Main outcome: reinforcing a European dimension of the studies and raising the awareness of the general public on the common EU values, with the focus on gender equality.

Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek (official abbreviation used in the following text: UNIOS) is a public higher education institution that offers up-to-date study programmes and fosters research within vivid academic atmosphere. Within its strategic objectives, UNIOS is focused on active participation in European and international cooperation projects, among which the Erasmus+ programme is is considered as the most important tool for realization of international cooperation. Given the possibility to apply for the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility projects, UNIOS has recognized the potentials of such cooperation to strengthen its partnerships worldwide. By participating in the Erasmus+ ICM, UNIOS has been promoting itself as an open academic community that offers high quality research and teaching. UNIOS participation in the Erasmus+ programme by realizing individual mobilities of staff and students within the project 2016-1-HR01-KA107-021828 supports UNIOS future development in terms of international cooperation strengthening. Apart of UNIOS as the project beneficiary, this project involved 10 partner institutions from 5 countries with the objective to support exchange of 31 members of (non)teaching staff and 7 students. Staff involved in this project were mostly teachers that improved their teaching skills or performed research in their field of interest. Students participating in this project that realized incoming and outgoing mobility were usually master level students studying law or food technology and within their exchange programme they gained sufficient ECTS to obtain recognition at their home universities. Realization of these individual mobilities represents for UNIOS and for partner institutions a significant achievement in building of strong and sustainable partnership relations for future projects. This Erasmus+ project provided a framework for continuing cooperation in the exchange of staff and students, thus providing benefits not only for individual participants, but also for all involved universities and for broader social community.