The Project Title: “Change in Classroom: Promoting Innovative Teaching & Learning to Enhance Student Learning Experience in Eastern Partnership Countries” (PRINTeL)The main goal of the project is to enhance student learning experience in Armenia, Georgia and Belarus by promoting development and innovation in teaching and learning (T&L), supporting integration of instruction with technology, and dissemination of good practices. This goal is achieved through the accomplishment of the following objectives:1. Strengthening Teaching Staff Development Centres (TSDC) in PC universities through enhancing capacities of staff and trainers, modernizing infrastructure and introducing innovative teacher training programmes. 2. Building up capacities of partner country higher education institutions (PC HEIs) teaching staff by developing their innovative and technology-enhanced T&L skills and competences.3. Establishing Virtual Academy of Teaching & Learning (VATL) as an international community of teachers interested in applying innovative T&L methods and tools and using open educational resources (OER).4. Promoting awareness on the types and methods of innovative and technology-enhanced T&L and disseminating best practices.The following outcomes and outputs are achieved as a result of the project implementation: • 30 staff and 100 trainers of the PC HEIs’ TSDCs have been trained on organization and operation of present-day TSDCs and on innovative technology-enhanced T&L and online instructional methods. • 4 new TSDCs have been established in the PC HEIs and the 5 existing TSDCs have been modernised and strengthened with new technology, trainers and teacher training and counseling programmes. • 18 technologically-enhanced Active Learning Classrooms (ALC) for teacher trainings and 9 multimedia Lecture Capture Studios (LCS) for video-content building have been established, 5 new teacher training courses on innovative and technology-enhanced T&L are introduced in the PC HEIs TSDCs. • Over 4,500 university teachers have been trained in innovative and technology-enhanced T&L methods, online instructional tools and technics, and OER development. • Virtual Academy of Teaching & Learning (VATL) has been established (https://vatl.ysu.am/ ) as an online interactive experience sharing and mutual learning platform to promote innovative T&L practices, creating digital educational content, and serving as an OER depository. • 5 Virtual Ccommunities of teaching practice, Annual virtual forum on innovative T&L and 9 Institutional annual award programmes for the excellence in T&L and promoting development and awareness on innovative pedagogy are created. • 800 copies of the good practice Teacher’s Handbook on Innovative and Technology-enhanced T&L are published and an e-version is made available in the project website: http://printel.am/uploads/page/pdfs/Teacher's%20Handbook__.pdf

Armenia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan have shared a common historical background. Since their independence in the 90s, agriculture has undergone a period of transformation. The social, economic and political changes have had an impact on the entire higher education system.TOPAS aims at filling the gap within a common former soviet inherited agricultural sciences higher education system in these countries and practical training in real working environment to provide a better match between job market needs and the qualifications offered. The vocationally oriented practical programs should be introduced and improved based on learning outcomes and competencies approach with flexible learning pathways and permeability among the different agrarian management programs. Within the program partnership between universities and stakeholders (farm industry and associations) will be fostered.A wide-range of activities will facilitate the transition from teacher centered knowledge-based form of education to student-centered practice based education in Agrarian studies and hence employability by enhancing the cooperation between universities and agriculture enterprises through adequate internship schemes with government support to recognize formal and informal learning and endorse ECQIP.Another innovative aspect of the project is the creation of a databank for applied sciences on the field of agriculture management for teaching purposes in the field of data collection of students, teachers and researchers. This databank will consist of data on production inputs, costs and outputs of major cash crops of these countries and will offer valid data for agricultural management study courses.The experience of the last decade showed, that missing practical orientation and knowledge of BA and MA students is one of the most important obstacles for professional qualification. While curricula development was well adapted in many fields, the cooperation with farms and industry has to be built up

"MODEST project aims at modernization of doctoral education in Science in Partner Countries. Wider project objective is ""To enhance cooperation capacities of Higher educational institutions of Partner Countries in the field of Doctoral Studies within European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and European Research Area (ERA)"" and specific objectives are:- Improve quality and employability of doctoral graduates of PC HEI's by modernizing doctoral education towards interdisiplinarity, internationalisation, enhancing mobility, using new teaching methodologies in line with Salzburg Principles, BFGU recommendations- Facilitate successful adherence with Bologna reforms and its instruments by organization of special training sessions for academic and administrative staff of HEI's in PCs- Improve up-skills of research and educational staff by retraining them on new teaching methods and create modern learning and research environment based on student centred approach, competence based program development- Improve structure and internal capacities of services of doctoral education and reseach by setting up Doctoral Training Centers in PC HEI’s; ensure their sustainability and cooperation with EU partners by establishing a professional network using modern ICT tools. To meet these objectives, the project will make use of the analysis of best EU practices and of the needs of PC to develop training materials and organize intensive retraining of HEI’s staff. Structure and content of DTCs will be worked out, including set of regulatory documents, instructions for DTC creation, programs and materials for DTCs and interdisciplinary Summer schools for doctoral students. To ensure sustainability, a web-platform and Virtual Network environment will be developed using participatory approaches and ICT methodologies. Synergy with other European initiatives will be sought via participation of consortium members in EU networks and organizations (Coimbra Group, EURASHE, etc)."

The “4Ps for Youth: Public, Popular, Progressive and Productive” project was built on the methodology of non – formal education taking into account the needs and motivations of the consortium members as the starting point of the programme. This project was designed as an open learning process based on active and collaborative learning, on sharing experience and ideas, on implementing the gained knowledge in practice and on involving all participants in decision making based on consent to achieve the best results.This Project aim was to bring together young people from different partner organizations for the promotion of their aims and achievements and empowering them with the skills of Public Relations and Communication in youth work to recognize that they can be active agents of change, to build constructive relations with their partners and target audience; to make their organisations and daily work public, popular, progressive and productive.The entire project had 4 activity stages: we met in Italy for a contact-making and preparatory meeting, where we had an opportunity to discuss the issues we have, the expectations we have from the project, and design the upcoming stages of the project. The next stage was a training course in Germany. Members of the participating organisations were trained on the communications and public relations topic, gained new skills, discussed with the experts the issues they face in their countries. At the end of the TC, all the organisations had a draft plan for local awareness-raising campaigns. During the TC several visits to Communications museum and organisations were implemented as well. After the TC, it was the time to implement the draft plans in practice. The organisations had to evaluate their work, find out the objectives and goals and promote their work and organisations. For that each and every organisation designed their own information and awareness-raising campaigns. Only the promotion of the project was with the same style. The final activity stage was the evaluation meeting in Armenia, to evaluate all the stages of the project, to find out the outcomes, and to think about future steps. The objectives of the project were:A) To strengthen awareness and understanding of the significant role of Public relations and communication. B) To increase participants’ knowledge in the field of media related to the process of constructing reality and develop a more critical and selective approach towards media, social media among representatives of youth organizations; C) To improve knowledge of participants how to work successfully with media and how to promote NGOs and the “Erasmus +” programme;D) To enhance participants’ knowledge of the Erasmus+ Programme and its Key Actions and to encourage the development of new project ideas and initiatives under this Programme.E) To inform participants on how to produce press releases that are used and how to prepare successful press conferences.F) To equip participants with the different types of communication tools; introduce them to the diverse types of media and its specific requirements (e.g. how journalists work and what they need).G) To strengthen participants’ competences as youth workers/leaders to use media tools at their professional work and acknowledge the ways media and digital tools can be used for addressing diverse societal issues more effectively;H) To provide participants an opportunity to share good practices, as well to reflect on common challenges in the field of community and youth work and strengthen the existing networks, including obtaining new contacts for further cooperation in the youth field;I) To give participants an opportunity to realize the gained knowledge and developed tools/techniques in their communities;J) To create Manual and online animated book with concrete instructions and working methods for practical implementation for everyday work.