Through INNO-EEN 2014 project six 7-days service package services will be provided to four SMEs with significant innovation activities and high potential for internationalization and two SME instrument beneficiaries. As the national consortium is responsible for providing services at whole territory of the country, this project will also cover the same area. The services are delivered by two project experts/Key Account Managers (KAM) from UKIM, member of EEN Macedonia. In this way the project will be linked to EEN Macedonia. The activities within the project are organized in two work packages: key account management (KAM) for the beneficiaries of the SME instrument and enhancing SME innovation management capacity for innovating SME independently from a specific project. The selection of SMEs will be done based on identified criteria whereas services will be delivered in line with the specified common format with the packages. The team will use the IMP³rove tool as an assessment tool. The KAM will undertake gap assessment and needs/ identification activity and support the SMEs in selection of lead coach. It will then facilitate interactions between the SME, the lead coach and EC. The planned duration of the both work packages is six months (July – December 2014). The services, benefits and experiences from these activities will be part of the internal evaluation. The beneficiaries of these activities will be also used for identification of potential needs for trainings in the future.

The project Towards Modern Slavic Studies stems from the need of modernizing the study programs in Slavic studies at the engaged universities. The project aims to reduce the shortage and mismatch of skills in Slavic philology and to promote internationalization in higher education. This will be achieved by developing international study programs in Slavic studies.The project addresses the demand: despite the high demand on the market for Slavic scholars with competences in Slavic languages and cultures (manifested, for example, by the insufficient number of registered sworn translators in the combinations of Slavic languages included in the project), there is a decline in interest in such studies. From the point of view of the labor market and society as a whole, it is therefore necessary to make the educational offer more attractive and improve it. The same conclusion has also been reached in surveys among graduates. One of the promising ways to better meet the educational needs of students, and at the same time the desired modernization and improvement of Slavic studies, is to enable candidates to complete international Slavic studies. In such studies, the student will firstly benefit from the human, technological, and social resources of several university centers. This will allow the student to get to know the reality and culture of the other country in practice already during his studies and in a much more profound form than in the framework of standard mobility, thanks to the fact that the entire study program will be designed as a coherent scheme of joint teaching at two different universities (in a Polish-Czech and Macedonian-West Slavic combination). This dimension of the project will enhance strategic and structural cooperation between the universities involved.The main result of the project is therefore a program of international Slavic complementary MA studies with detailed syllabi and educational materials for the courses provided in the program. The intention of the applicants is to create study programs which will be trans-disciplinary and which, in addition to the literary and linguistic background, will also equip the graduate with well-established knowledge of contemporary social and economic life of both cultures. These materials will also be partly developed in the form of e-learning. This will also make the course of studies more flexible. Currently, due to the small number of students enrolled in Slavic studies, in practice the student has no influence on the path of his or her studies and adapts to linearly planned modules. Distance learning in combination with mobility are ways to make teaching more flexible. The second inherent dimension of the project is to improve the teaching competences of Slavic staff at the universities involved and to promote student-oriented learning. This ambition will be achieved through two series of training courses on modern educational methods and innovative pedagogical methodologies (distance learning, flipped classroom, tandem teaching, etc.) and consolidated and disseminated through the publication of guidelines for Slavic teachers in the form of a Book of Good Practice.Both the developed educational materials and the guidelines for pedagogical methodologies will be tested already in the project - during pilot courses.The project involves three partners: The University of Silesia (Poland), the University of Ostrava (Czech Republic) and the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (Republic of North Macedonia), and one associate partner. The project team has a total of 10 participants. A total of 35 people will take part in training activities: 15 Slavic studies educators as part of the training and 20 students participating in the pilot activities, which will be led by previously trained teachers. In the long term, the programs of international studies are to be of long-term importance: they are to be used to implement international Slavic studies with a double degree. The position of a graduate of such studies in the labor market will increase significantly. The success of this project will open the possibility for the universities involved to apply for an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree grant in 2023.

The global objective of the project is to enable potential beneficiaries to gain a better knowledge and understanding of EU practices and to be prepared for accession through strengthening the contacts and mutual exchange of experience in veterinary sectors of civil society in the Member States and Turkey, encouragement of exchange of knowledge and best practices on planning and implementation of EU policies. Our project fulfills these requirements on farriery subject. Specific objective is to encourage horse related professionals and poor families working with horse and donkeys, enterprises with organizing farriery training activities, to improve working equine welfare. The Project coordinator AKU and other partners, Macedonian and Latvian Agricultural Universities are public bodies responsible in Veterinary training in the region. Planned activities are to form project team, to form a list of requirements, to determine educators, to provide physical equipments (farriery tools, computer etc.), to determine education activity program, to arrange visual materials such as brochures etc. in order to deliver the trainees and their families, to prepare leaflets brochures etc. in order to present the project, to determine trainees, to form education workshop, to do farriery trainings in Lethonia and Macedonia with local and foreign experts, to do traininig activity in Macedonia with participation Turkish veterinary related students for enhancing awarenes level of students on importance of foot trimming on animal health, to produce and deliver a short film, to do farriery apprenticeship to trainees, to arrange tours stud farms, to prepare outcome reports with the project outputs. Farriery training activities in Macedonia and Lethonia will be the cornerstone of the project because these trained skilled personnels will have basic animal welfare training capacity to local veterinarians and other relevant persons in their countries. Staff of partner associations are to be trained in Macedonia and Lethonia, and subsequently to establish a farriery training curriculum, with the support of the partners. The veterinary related persons participating at Vocational Trainings in partner universities are expected to deliver their required experiences and competences through the project duration via seminars, local, national, international, workshops. Furthermore, international farriery conference will be held in Turkey with the participation of local and foreign partners. It is aimed at training experts from the region and other regions and in collaboration on a long-term basis at national and European levels. An exhibition about the history of farriery in partner countries will be organized in order to raise an awareness on the disappearing profession 'farriery'. Also a competition under evaluation of experienced farriers will be run among the participants of training activities who will take place in farriery Trainings. Historical farriery museum will be established in the AKU. The museum will include former unused antique farriery tools/equipments which will be collected from older forges. The museum will exhibit the history of farriery in Turkey. The activity will raise the awareness of the disappearing profession and help to promote dissemination events. The project has been planned for completion in two years.

Dramatic rise in cyber-attacks has made cybersecurity a major concern for the world. It is estimated that cybercrime cost world economy about a $1 trillion in 2020. In February 2021, a cyber-attack targeted a water treatment facility in Florida to change chemical levels in water supply. In May 2021, ransomware attack targeted the largest fuel pipeline in the USA. Cyber-attacks come in all shapes including worldwide data breaches, affecting both companies and people. For instance, a social media app cyber-attack resulted with 1.3 million users’ information leakage. Changing landscape of cybersecurity threats requires urgent need for comprehensive, dynamic, and applied cybersecurity education to qualify cybersecurity professionals for prevention, mitigation, and management of threats. CyberMACS proposes a full time 2-year joint European MSc programme (120 ECTS) focusing on “Applied Cybersecurity” to provide solid background within cybersecurity with focus on educating future cybersecurity experts to detect, prevent, mitigate, and manage cyber-attacks. Students will be trained on basics of cybersecurity in first year, then opportunities will be provided for specialization in the second year with compulsory following the winter/summer schools as well as compulsory internship. Besides specialization tracks, students will receive training in soft skills such as entrepreneurship and complete their degrees with master theses. To guarantee CyberMACS’s vision of high-quality education, three European higher educational institutions combine their complementary competencies: Kadir Has University (KHAS), SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences (SRH-Berlin), and Ss. Cyril and Methodius University-Skopje, Macedonia (UKIM/FCSE). CyberMACS is a strong institutional cooperation for European excellence in higher education with a high level integrated & transnational study programme on applied cybersecurity targeting best students worldwide.