At all partner universities of the Una Europa Alliance, selected projects will be supported from January 2022 onwards.

CeDiS supports your selected cooperation projects by:

• advising you individually on questions of e-learning didactics and the planning of your digital, international teaching and learning offers
• providing you with selected workshops from the CeDiS training programme that will support you in the digitalisation and internationalisation of your teaching offer
• assisting you technically and didactically in the realisation of your digital scenarios and course offerings
• supporting you in the production of video and audio resources
• Peer Learning Sessions: regular physical and virtual exchange with European partners
• giving you the opportunity to present your project at an international conference
• assisting you in applying for suitable funding from FU schemes
  
  • Una Europa Starter Funds to initiate contacts for teaching cooperation projects with Una Europa partner universities
  • Erasmus+ funding to initiate contacts with EIT partner universities
  • E-Learning support programme of Freie Universität to support collaborative teaching/learning scenarios (e.g. work contracts)
  • Funding of travel costs for teachers and students in the context of blended mobility formats

OpenU also supports project proposals that are already supported within another funding line or that emerge from other teaching collaborations.

From January 2022, we will support projects that aim for:

• designing and conducting joint European online and blended teaching and learning formats, e.g. blended seminar, online seminar, etc.,
• develop digital international course offerings, curricula, or multiple/joint degrees (MOOCs, etc.),
• develop online collaborations, e.g. digital lab.

The following prerequisites apply to the support of cooperation projects:

• Your project aims to provide students of Freie Universität Berlin with international experiences through virtual/blended mobility scenarios or teaching-learning scenarios.
• Your project implies cooperation with at least one teacher or researcher from the Una-Europa University Network or the EIT Innovation Community.
• Your digital teaching or course is available to students from at least one other partner university from the Una-Europa University Network or the EIT Innovation Community.
• The teaching formats or E-Learning content to be developed is offered in English.

Deadline and next steps

01/10/2021

•  Launch of 2nd Call for Projects
  • feedback on submitted project proposals
  • if necessary, partner matching within the Una-Europa university network and the EIT Innovation Community

15/12/2021

• Deadline for submission of project proposals

03/01/2022

• Announcement of the final selected projects

from 03/01/2021

• Joint course/session design with the aim of implementation from April 2022
• Start of production for course content, MOOCs or curricula/degrees

Information on international teaching-learning scenarios for virtual and blended mobility

Here you can find the annex document "International blended and online learning formats for virtual mobility" for download.

The following questions can serve as inspiration for finding a project idea:

• Which topics that you research or teach are appropriate for an international format?
• For which contents and competencies is an international exchange with students from the partner universities particularly suitable?
• For which contents could international discussions and collaboration produce exciting results? How do other international perspectives contribute to a better understanding of the seminar content?
• What existing courses, curricula, materials, etc. could you convert into an international format?
• Are there assignments/projects/questions in your courses that lend themselves to joint processing in the form of learning tandems or group work between the international student groups?