Type of the project

Research, transfer and scientific culture

modality

Cooperation

Field of action

European

Status of the project

Closed

Initial date

01/01/2023

End date

31/12/2024

The Academy 4 Business project has been a project that has brought together higher education institutions and business entities from Estonia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Spain: the Vysoká Škola Báňská - Technická Univerzita Ostrava and Digiskills from the Czech Republic, Akademia Techniczno-Humanistyczna w Bielsku-Bialej and Agencja Rozwoju Regionalnego SA from Poland, the TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme Foundation, the Mataró City Council and Lurtis Rules SL from Spain, and finally, EdTech Estonia, Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences, Tallin City Enterprise Center and Tallinn University from Estonia,

These institutions and entities have worked together to develop and implement an interdisciplinary, cross-border and intersectoral course that has allowed the entrepreneurial mindset to be brought closer to generating innovative solutions in the field of educational technologies (EdTech) through the reciprocal transfer of knowledge and support for entrepreneurs. 

The project has designed online mentoring sessions (led by Tecnocampus) with a tailored methodology to generate technological solutions in the educational field. In these sessions, students have worked with academic mentors, EdTech experts and public institutions, to generate innovations in EdTech. The mentoring has been repeated for 3 cycles throughout the project and each cycle has ended with a face-to-face meeting in the “Winter School” format at TecnoCampus and the “Summer School” at the University of Tallinn, Estonia and at the Akademia Techniczno-Humanistyczna w Bielsku-Bialej in Poland.

In the third mentoring cycle, students had the opportunity to present their projects and the two winning students were able to enjoy a scholarship each to participate in the international event "DigiEduHack” at Tallinn University.

The course has generated different innovative digital deliverables aimed at a wide audience, such as a Mentoring Book, an innovative guide created as a result of the project that, through a Design Thinking methodology, advises mentors on managing groups of people to generate creative solutions in the Education Technology sector. You can access the result here.

Within the framework of this project, two students from the entrepreneurial pathway have also participated in the program "BIP (Blended Intensive Programs) - Educational Communication and Development through EdTech Tools", which has focused on educational communication and development through EdTech tools at the University of Bielsko-Biała, in Poland.

Below you can find the bases and resolutions of the different calls for proposals for the project:

The first cycle of mentorships takes place from October 11, 2023 to November 29, 2023 and the "Winter School" stay takes place at the TecnoCampus from January 29, 2024 to February 2, 2024:

The second cycle of mentorships takes place from 13 March 2024 to 29 May 2024 and the "Summer School" stay takes place at Tallinn University from 26 to 28 June 2024

The third cycle of mentorships will take place from 7 to 10 October 2024 and will be open to 10 students. The two students who present the winning project will receive a travel grant of 900 euros each to participate in the international event.DigiEduHack” which will take place face-to-face at the University of Tallinn (Estonia) from November 15 to 17.

As part of this project, entrepreneurial students are encouraged to participate in the "BIP (Blended Intensive Programs) - Educational Communication and Development through EdTech Tools", which focuses on communication and educational development through EdTech tools. The program consists of a virtual part that will take place on days 5, 7, 12, 14, 19 and 21 November this year, as well as a face-to-face part that will take place from 25 to 29 November at the University of Bielsko-Biała, in Poland.

Project managers

Màrian Buil Fabregà

principal researcher

Project team

Marta Carceller

Project technique and research support

Funding sources

Financed by the European Commission within the call for Erasmus+ "Cooperation partnerships in higher education". The total subsidy to be distributed among all partners during the two years of implementation is €400.000.

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Granted amount

€71.172,00

Amount of the project

€71.172,00

- Tallinn University (project coordinator)

- Technicka Univerzita Ostrava

- Akademia Techniczno-Humanistyczna w Bielsko-Bialej

- TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme Foundation

- Lurtis Rules, SL

- Agencja Rozwoju Regionalnego, SA

- Know How Club, SRO

- EdTech Estonia

The project has the support of Mataró City Council, the Dóna't un Impuls association, FAGEM and PIMEC. 

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