"<< Background >>BackroundThis project aims to develop STEM students' and academic staff's competences in using advanced technologies (like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning) in processing the information provided by Big Data (open source ) and to facilitate an exchange of experience and good practices to the academic staff regarding new methods of teaching and learning that will be used during post-pandemic period. There are sets of open source Big Data about the environment pollution and climate change. Processing these data, students and academic staff will become more aware, more sensitive to the environmental issues, in the context of existing climate change and will improve their green competences. The project partners are from complementary fields and are led by the same needs, to improve their human resource's (both students and staff) competences and to increase the employability of own graduates, contributing with higher taxes to the development of their local communities.These collections of big data represent a perfect environment for the new Artificial Intelligence applications, and change the way that we have experienced innovation. It is necessary for students and academic staff to develop their skills in using advanced technologies to process and use this information.Into this project, the team plans to address to the following needs:1. At individual level- developing digital, green and STEM competences (for the students at Science and Engineering faculties)- need of training in new methods of teaching and learning adapted to the post-pandemic time (for the academic staff)- applying ""advanced technologies"" in scientific research (for the academic staff)2. At Institutional level:- increasing graduates' degree of professional insertion on the labor market by their training in using advanced technologies- increasing students' degree of satisfaction by improving the quality of educational act given by academic staff-increasing the number of published scientific papers and number of multidisciplinary research projects 3. At Community level:- development of some environmental strategies by the local decision makers based on some information given by the processing existing data- community development based on the collecting higher taxes from the highly skilled graduates' salaries and slowing the rate of labor migration of the graduates from higher education in other more developed European regions- attracting in their region of some companies that need a highly skilled workforceBeneficiaries:-direct beneficiaries: target group (40 students, 10 academic staff), team of project implementation-indirect beneficiaries: other students and academic staff from the partner universities where will be implemented project results and will use them, research community where will be disseminated some of the project results, mass-media that will communicate to the local community about the benefits of this project (increasing the employability of the high skilled graduates in advanced technologies, information about processing data related to the environment protection), partner universities (will have more satisfied academic staff and students, more published papers, more multidisciplinary projects, more international relations), companies (will find easier highly skilled workforce), community (will decrease the migration process of young people)<< Objectives >>Project Objectives:O1.adapting teaching and learning methods to be useful in the post-epidemic period for 10 academic staff and 40 students until begining of academic year 2023-2024O2.to develop digital and STEM competences using big data related to air pollution, green energy in the context of climate change for 40 students (from which 5 has experienced economical issues) and 10 academic staff, until begining of academic year 2023-2024O3. to increase the graduates' employability in their field for the graduates from project with 10% in the first year after they graduated.<< Implementation >>The overall activity is structured in 8 work packages (WP) with start and end time (initial month-final month), shortly presented, in the following:WP1 Project preparation (m1-m3)WP2 Information, promotion and dissemination of the project activities at each partner university (m1-m24)WP3 Target group's recruitment, selection and involvement in the project activities (m1-m4, m12-m16)WP4 Training for academic staff (from the target group and project implementation team) in: 1. innovative teaching and learning methods for the postpandemic time, 2. Artificial Intelligence and statistics, 3. Machine Learning and Big Data (m1-m13)WP5 Intensive training for students/summer school (students from the target group, 2 groups) (m5-m19)WP6 Writing the content of a scientific paper about advanced technologies in working with big data (m1-m17)WP7 Multiplier events preparation (m12-m24)WP8 Project management (m1-m24)Each work packages has established main tasks and associated deliverables and milestones.<< Results >>Tangible results:1. a curriculum for an optional course in Advanced technologies (AI, ML, BD) used in processing data (design and implemented in all partner universities) and a handbook (minimum 100 pages)2. an inovative tool kit of sensors for students (to learn how to build, programm, use them in laboratories and process aquired data)3. a scientific paper that has used the data given by an open BD, using AI, presented to an international conference 4. a book (minimum 100 pages) about innovative methods of teaching and learning usefull for the postpandemic timeIntangible results:1. increasing the degree of satisfaction of the graduates from the target group (who improved their digital, green and STEM competences and choose as bachelor or master thesis a subject connected with the topics of this project)- checked with questionnaires2. positive effect at partner universities in recruiting new students from High schools (the best advertisement of a university is made by the satisfied graduates)3. positive effect on the business environment that will find highly skilled graduates in their region to employ4. positive impact on the community (will collect higher taxes from the graduates' salaries that will contribute to the development of community; educated people related to environment protection and green sources of energy)"