About project

The project is conceived to strengthen the digital readiness, resilience and capacity of educators and students and build their digital and sustainability competences. This will be done concretely through the creation of a new and innovative course and learning and teaching materials on data analytics & environmental data analytics, and through cross-sectoral transnational cooperation. The project will help overcome the skills mismatch on national and EU level by increasing the number of IT graduates who are trained to analyze data, spot trends, make forecasts, and extract information to help decision-makers make better-informed decisions. Project outputs will be developed in cooperation with the business sector, in particular the IT corporation Oracle and the green company Knauf Insulation, which will join as associated partners.

Oracle will provide information about IT industry and labor market trends, and will be involved in both the development of the course curriculum and in dissemination activities aimed at increasing its use beyond the project consortium. Knauf Insulation will contribute to raising awareness about green sustainability, i.e. the cross-road between environmental health, economic vitality, and social benefits. The project will overall contribute to the expansion of the role of higher education in local communities in two ways. Firstly, by making the developed course curriculum and materials available to young people who are not enrolled in higher education (NEETs) and developing especially for them a digital module with practical exercises. NEETs will be enabled to attend lectures at the premises of the higher education institutions involved in the project, and they will complete the digital module under the supervision of partner Trokut’s trainers. The inclusion of young people who would otherwise not be part of the higher education system, and the international nature of the project consortium would increase the inclusion and diversity of all involved partners for the project duration and after that. This will be done through the joint development and localization in 4 EU languages of a course curriculum, a digital module with practical exercises, and learning and teaching materials, and through networking across sectors (with the business sector, vocational schools and a NEET academy) and countries (Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia and Czechia). Secondly, the project will support the green capabilities of the higher education sector by addressing the climate crisis & environmental challenges arising on local and global level. This will be done by cooperation with Knauf Insulation but also with local authorities which will provide data and case studies to be used in practical training exercises. The intersection between digital and green will lead to the identification of sustainable solutions of environmental challenges on local, national and EU level, while the inclusion of diverse target groups will increase local impact.