ENTEP Joint Project proposal has been initiated with the aim of improving the quality of education and teaching, enhancing teaching practices and further developing educational science in Russia and China. Partners experienced in HE teacher training formed a consortium in order to benefit from their different experiences, profiles and specific expertise and to produce relevant and high quality outcomes. The Project is focused on building cooperation and exchange of good teaching practices among European, Russian and Chinese Universities, which will eventually result in the modernization of PCIs.Effective teacher education is key to teachers’ ability to face educational change and handle various socioeconomic conditions, however, more professional training is required throughout a teacher’s career as different professional needs emerge and contextual circumstances shift. RU and CN educational authorities require that HE teachers, who lack pedagogical education, must receive training through professional development in-service programs on theory and practice of teaching, including advanced teaching methods and pedagogy. Thus, the proposed establishment of Centres for Teaching and Learning at PCIs with trained personnel and methodological support will provide a model for such high quality training on a regular basis and engage educators with the most up-to-date technologies to support teaching design and delivery. In order to be able to fit the changing learning environment, University teachers will be informed of modern pedagogy, curricula and syllabi design, contemporary teaching methodologies and psychology in the classroom, thus, being able to teach graduates who will meet needs of the labour market. Consequently, continuous professional development of university teaching staff will be focused on shared international and national ‘centres of excellence’, best practices, advanced teaching methodology and educational psychology in convergence with EU initiatives.

This action supports physical and blended mobility of higher education students and staff from EU Member States and third countries associated to Erasmus+ to any country in the world. Students in all study fields and cycles can take part in a study period or traineeship abroad. Higher education teaching and administrative staff can take part in professional development activities abroad, as well as staff from the field of work in order to teach and train students or staff at higher education institutions.

The aim of the KA 103’s participation was increasing the mobility of students, lecturers and administration within Europe. For this purpose, the vast network of Erasmus partner universities was used, which the University of Hildesheim has established over recent years.The focus of KA 103 in 2015/16 was on student mobility. In the field of SMS 217 students studied at partner universities in other European countries. In the field of Teaching Mobility (STA) 13 lecturers taught abroad and in the field of Administrative Staff Mobility (STT) two administrative staffs used the Workshadowing. Erasmus+ placements were handled in a consortium headed by the Leibniz University Hannover, so that they do not appear in this report.More than 93 percent of the outgoing students and 100 percent of the abroad lectures are very satisfied with their stay abroad. This satisfaction and positive progress reports have helped to arouse the interest of other members of the University of Hildesheim and contributes to a further increase in the mobility numbers.The participation in KA 103 with the associated stays abroad of students, lectures and administrative staffs lead to a more cosmopolitan university, better prepared students for the labor market and a higher quality of teaching.

The IN SITU project combines research and experimental actions to advance the innovation-related practices, capacities, and potential of CCIs based in non-urban areas of the EU, a constituency of the CCI sector that has grown in visibility and significance over the last decade in Europe and internationally but which is still vulnerable due to the lagging attention of research and policy to its needs, characteristics, and potentials. The project aims to advance understanding of the forms, processes, and governance of innovation involving cultural and creative industries (CCIs) located in non-urban areas of Europe and to advance the ability of non-urban CCIs to act as drivers of innovation, competitiveness, and sustainability for the locales in which they are located. IN SITU brings together leading approaches to investigating economic evolution and diversification, a challenge-oriented approach to processes of innovation, non-urban place-based planning and development, and creative industries entrepreneurship to investigate the situation of CCIs in non-urban areas. The project couples this with a pragmatic capacity-building programme to enable CCIs to address some of the key issues of their communities/region and of our time. The core defining aspect of IN SITU is the interlinking of research and practice through place-based IN SITU Labs, hubs for projects in 6 non-urban regions across Europe, located in Portugal, Ireland, Iceland, Finland, Latvia, and Croatia. Involving both Europe-wide research and place-based experimentation, IN SITU will provide an in-depth knowledge of the direct and indirect effects, cross-sectoral connections and spillovers, innovative strategies and systems, and needs of CCI practitioners in non-urban areas. Complementary to this, the project will assess and advance the multi-level innovation and culture policy and planning frameworks that contextualize and can enable this work.

The European Master in Lexicography (EMLEX) is targeted at students who show an avid interest in working with dictionaries and online lexicographic resources. The EMJM-EMLEX provides an international and interdisciplinary degree in Lexicography. The master's programme focuses on building expertise in theoretical and practical Lexicography, Digital Humanities, Language Technologies, Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence directed towards the needs of a changing digital and global society. The distinguishing features of the EMJM-EMLEX are its international orientation, the interaction between theory and practice, the promotion of multilingualism (languages of instruction: German and English + acquisition of other European languages), innovative approaches to teaching and learning, as well as a comprehensive mobility plan and a close link to private and social sectors. Admission requirements are a bachelor's degree in study fields such as Humanities, Language Technologies, Computational Linguistics and good knowledge of German and English. The duration of the programme is 4 semesters (120 ECTS): the 1st semester focuses on fundamentals of Lexicography, languages and soft skills. The 2nd semester is an obligatory mobility semester at one of the HEIs. The 3rd semester is dedicated to advanced modules and the internship that is held in close collaboration with public and private sector institutions. The 4th semester is dedicated to the master's thesis. The Joint Degree will be awarded by the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Université de Lorraine, Universität Hildesheim, Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem Budapest, Universidade do Minho, Università degli Studi Roma Tre und Ilia State University. The Degree Programme is supported by eight associated partner institutions and many academics from around the world.