Meeting the demand for IT specialists in labour market three institutions of higher education both in public and private sector BSUIR, BSPU, VSTU, SBMT and PIMB have agreed on updating their 5 study programmes in IT field. The updated content of the tree study programmes will comply with the priorities of National higher education strategy of Belarus (BY). The participation of the partners from Programme countries in the project will allow for a clearer understanding of Bologna process, which will help in updating the study programmes based on ECTS. Cooperation with Programme countries HEIs will allow developing modern professional competences of BY teachers and graduates taking into account the requirements of foreign specialists, which will allow them to be competitive not just in the BY but also in the countries of EU. Academic staff of BY 5 HEIs who will attend trainings, develop new courses, teaching methods and tools, test the eLearning courses, and deliver them to the students of the above mentioned institutions who will gain innovative competences under the requirements of the labour market in computing area. The overall objective is to increase the competitiveness of BY 5 HEIs offering high-quality higher education that meets the changing needs of the economic environment. The specific objective is to develop modern competencies of computing specialists bringing modern courses, implementing innovative teaching/learning methods and tools, purchasing eLearning equipment for BY 5 HEIs into line with Bologna requirements by October 2018. Having developed the new courses and adapting them for delivering online in EN and RU will support improvement of study quality, accessibility of studies, acquiring new knowledge and competences in computing area, foster transnational institutional cooperation and enrich educational environment of preparation of IT specialists, facilitate the introduction of transfer of credits and recognition of studies abroad using ECTS.

ELA starts from the idea of inclusive education and equity of access and equality of educational opportunity. Teacher training in countries in transition do not equip their students with knowledge about law. ELA’s underlining assumption is that enhancing equality in education requires a collaboration between educators and lawyers to promote rights based teaching, learning, school leadership and governance. Such a meaningful interdisciplinary collaboration requires lawyers to share legal knowledge and educators to show interest in legal matters. ELA's overarching goals are: - to support the partners to respond to the challenges to establish rights based education systems;- to prepare their teachers and school principals to act in accordance with the law and advice on legal matters pertaining to their and their students conditions while at school. ELA's activities will: - develop methodologies on how lawyers could communicate law and legal information to educators and on how to prepare teachers and school principals to act in accordance with the law;- enhance multi- and interdisciplinarity for effective collaboration between educators and lawyers; - redesign teacher training and educational sciences programs to include 14 modules that transfer a basic knowledge of (education) law and rights in education to the students in teacher education in English, Albanian, Belarussian and Russian;- develop online open learning (for students) and teaching (for staff) tools on education law and rights in education in English, Albanian, Belarussian and Russian; - develop online ICT-based testing of the 14 modules on law; - improve the professional level of staff in the partner countries;- disseminate information about the project through an e-newsletter;- disseminate the outputs to stakeholders in education in (inter-)national summer schools, workshops, conferences, forums.The consortium unites 4 units from 3 Member States and 9 units from 3 Mundus regions.

During most of the first decade of the 21st century, Belarus experienced strong economic growth (GDP in 2001-2008 grew on average by 8.3% annually) and made substantial progress in poverty reduction (poverty line declined from 30% in 2002 to 5% in 2010). However, since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, Belarus has experienced significant economic instability. Strong and robust economic growth and development in Belarus going forward will necessarily have to rely on the country’s human capital. For that, it is necessary to move upmarket through a steady increase in labour productivity, which in its turn requires and adequately prepared workforce. Improving the effective functioning of the higher education (HE) system is thus an important priority for the country. The main aim of ‘Fostering Competencies Development in Belarusian Higher Education’ (FOSTERC) has been to strengthen the use of innovative principles and approaches to teaching and learning in the Belarusian Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) for the improvement of graduates’ learning outcomes. FOSTERC has examined the curricular development focusing on graduates’ competencies (knowledge, skills and attitudes). It has fostered competencies development for matching the social and economic demands and in turn to improve the overall quality of HE. Implementing the reforms, FOSTERC has supported the modernisation of governance, management and functioning of Belarusian HEIs, and the upgrade and improvement of teaching and learning methodologies. It has provided trainings, methodological tools and indicators for conceptualization of learning outcomes, and has integrated good practices and new methods into daily activities. It has also provided the necessary information and tools to facilitate the implementation of internal and external quality assurance assessments, supporting, at the end, the modernisation of Belarusian participating universities and being the reference of the modernisation of the rest of Belarusian HEIs.