STEM for ALL - STEFORA is a result of the self-as the results from the on-going STINT project funded by the Swedish Government, where diversity and gender equality are identified as topics of interest aiming at sharing knowledge and experiences in terms of frameworks and empirical studies to investigate Generation Z’s enrolment and involvement in the development of STEM. The on-going (STINT) project was designed by LNU and RIT (AUK), for starting a long-term collaboration in academic development with RIT (AUK) and with other HEIs in Kosovo and the region, for supporting internationalization and enhancement of HEIs’ STEM capacities. A part of the core activities of the project are designed to address the findings of self-assessments and strategic meetings between LNU and beneficiary HEIs in Kosovo and Albania from December, 2021. The other focus is to take advantage of the Committee for Women's RIghts and Gender Equality (FEMM) Study produced by the European Parliament. As such, STEFORA’s is designed with a holistic approach around three wide/general project objectives: (1) digital citizenship focusing on mitigating institutional barriers, (2) apply universal design principles in formal and non-formal learning activities including premises, and (3) adopt norm critical approaches to raise cultural awareness and foster gender sensitive education, in the target countries specific to STEM engagement for women.

Cross-border student and staff mobility as key peace-building instrument among European countries and driver for the circulation of ideas, innovation and graduates is politically enticing. Hence, student and staff mobility in Europe is increasing partially as a result of such mobility promotion and funding instruments as ERASMUS+. Yet, such growth is shown to be unbalanced. The most worrying is that students from unprivileged socio-economic backgrounds are less inclined to student mobility than students from better-off socio-economic backgrounds, thereby turning ERASMUS+ to some sort of social selection mechanism. The same studies suggest that the social segregation of certain Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) contributed to the unbalanced mobility pattern and call for more equal mobility uptakes across universities through tailored incentives. Empirical research among the project’s partners indicates that reduced mobility uptake in remote and socially segregated HEIs also corresponds with lesser capacities of International Relations Offices (IROs).This project responds to the European Commission’s commitment to reinforce ERASMUS+ programme “in particular by reaching out to increasing numbers of people with fewer opportunities,” as those served by the type of HEIs mentioned above.The project, titled “ROAMING - Strengthening International Staff&Student Mobility Offices in the West Balkans,” aims at reducing the unbalanced international mobility uptake of remote and less privileged HEIs in the West Balkans by strengthening the capacity of their International Relations Offices. To this end, we are working to establish a consortium with a mix of experienced and inexperienced Higher Education Institutions from the West Balkans in matters related to ERASMUS+ from Albania, Kosovo* and Motenegro, willing to cooperate with an experienced university from an ERASMUS member country and another university from an associated country, North Macedonia.

Patients in Kosovo, especially those from vulnerable groups, continue to suffer from the low quality and difficulty of accessing allied health services, exacerbating their already disfavoring situation. Yet, there is a lack of updated educational and professional training offers for development of needed competencies among relevant student and professionals. The aim of this Project is to enhance the virtual and mixed reality practice-oriented education in allied health sciences through lifelong-learning (LLL), in line with the Bologna process and collaboration with rehabilitation/health providers, ministries and national industry.The total number of Consortium members is 11, including 2 HEIs from Finland, 1 HEI from Germany, 3 HEIs from Kosovo, HEIs, 1 ministry from Kosovo, 1 professional partner from Germany, 2 professional partners and 1 NGO from Kosovo. The project reaches its goals through establishing the SIAHDPC, teachers and professionals’ training and development and updating of CPD courses.The outputs and results are: - clearly defined relevant competencies;- an innovation and research conducive student-run interdisciplinary allied health digital practice center - two training programs for teachers and professionals;- nine continuous professional development (CPD) courses for students/stakeholders on EQF levels 5, 6 and 7, and a digital platform to support the implementation of the courses and hosting the virtual clinic for teaching and practicing the provision of eHealth and eRehabilitation;- a teacher’s Toolkit and Roadmap on applying relevant pedagogical approaches and designation and delivery of respective services, respectively. - Regional, national and international networks for disseminating and sustaining the project results.The main impacts are: improvement of educational environment, introduction of new learning methods, improve the quality and accessibility of health services and products, and new entrepreneurial opportunities.

Data journalism and more generally, data-based communication represents a rapidly growing experience in higher educational courses and in professional training in European countries, since the media and news systems are more and more appreciating the use of data, in a systematic and scientific way, in the production of journalistic and communication content.WEBJOU project aims to promote knowledge exchange and multidisciplinary teaching and learning innovation in the Western Balkan reality, for what concerns providing all knowledge and skills, in particular from fields such as data science, statistics, visualization and communication, necessary to fruitfully operate in the data journalism and data communication frameworks. The WEBJOU Project has the following four major goals:1. The definition of the profile of data journalism and data communication for the higher education (ISCED-6) with reference to the Wester Balkan higher education system. 2. The design of 6 modular courses, which can be composed to realize different training paths (Big Data, Data Visualization, statistical analysis, Geospatial representations, Story telling, Legislation on data property in EU (GDPR)). The courses will be compliant with a competences assessment and qualification system based on the ECTS credit points.3. The realization of 7 first course/bachelor's (ISCED-6) in Data journalism, one for each partecipating HE, tailored for the Wester Balkan context with particular reference to the Albanian and Kosovan higher education system.4. The development of an online platform. All the resources and teaching aids will be available to the public free of charge through open licenses. (Open Educational Resources -OER) To evaluate these objectives, WEBJOU will test the courses with 70 students with particular reference to females (50). Additionally, both academic and administrative staff will be trained both on the courses and on the learning platform.