"ChallengeE-Tech Project was brought to life in the midst of a specific situation which showed that online learning is indeed a very important component of academic education. COVID-19 pandemics forced the educational sector on all levels to redirect the majority of its activities to the web. It also showed that there is a need for a special approach to teaching theoretical and practical STEM subjects online, just as there is a need for appropriate resources. Even though some lecturers managed to conduct their classes, they had to put in a lot of effort to make sure that the teaching program was completed to the extent expected by them and their students. In order to make sure that the teaching and learning objectives are met regardless of the circumstances, academics (and also teachers on other levels of education) must be equipped with the right set of skills to prepare captivating, involving and interesting e-learning classes. They need to be given tools to be used for preparing modern, high-tech resources that will be helpful in their web-based lectures, so that students can be exposed to practical knowledge that is inseparable from theoretical knowledge in their field. Academics need to be supported by a body of experts to whom they will be able to reach if and when they need specialized help. Finally, they need to have tangible material they will be able to use in order to expand their skills in the period when e-learning seems to be moving up in the hierarchy of teaching methods due to COVID-19 pandemics. Solution and project objectivesThe following products will be developed under the project:An e-learning course “Online teaching practice and e-learning courses” for academics;A guidebook entitled ""An Interactive Guide to Online Academic Teaching"" (an open source publication in two versions: ready to print and digital, multimedia version);Open bank of educational resources and tools for virtual laboratory classes; An example, professional a e-learning course for students;A team of experts shall be created within the Cluster of Good Practices in E-learning.The best e-learning experts and practitioners will participate in the development of the materialsThe Partners and Associated Partners involved in the project are:✶Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland and its departments: Center of Modern Education and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering - knowledge and experience regarding designing modern teaching resources and STEM e-courses (GUT);✶Society of Academic e-Learning Poland - knowledge and experience regarding academic e-learning;✶FH Joanneum, Austria - knowledge and experience regarding online teaching of practical vocational skills;✶Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy - experience in conducting open, online courses on a national level.Project is according to priorities: “Innovative practices in the digital era.” and “Promoting and rewarding excellence in teaching and skills development.”EffectProducts that will be created throughout the duration of the project have been designed with the above issues in mind and, as such, they are very likely to improve the existing state of e-learning at universities and other educational institutions, access to high-quality resources useful in preparing practical and theoretical classes and the level of lecturers’ and students’ satisfaction, those participating in online education. The most important long term project outcomes are: improved ability to prepare e-learning courses on technical subjects by academics, popularization of e-learning methods and techniques among academics, increased confidence of academics involved in the project and increased quality of the courses on technical subjects.MethodologyProject will be managed according to PRINCE and PMI principles and guidelines. Designing and development process will be based on good practices of user centered design, design thinking, ux and profesional marketing research."

One of the indicators of progress in the evolving field of transportation & logistics is a 7% growth in the number of logistics lease transactions recorded on the European market in 2015 [http://www.cushmanwakefield.pl,2017]). To be able to flourish, the industry requires innovative solutions which enhance flexibility and competitiveness. The research shows that companies attaching great importance to innovation see the highest increases in turnover (Innobarometer, 2015). According to the report of the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) 2016 on innovation performance of EU Member States, Poland is much below the EU average and is ranked among the performers with an innovation index at 0.29 (the leader is Sweden with an index score of 0.7). The index score of the project partner Italy is at 0.43. Both the countries grapple with problems which prevent them from becoming pioneers and leaders in developing and introducing state-of-the-art solutions. The next project partner is based in Austria, ranked by EIS as a strong innovator with the performance at 0.59 which has been declining since 2014. This project will bridge a gap in the need for transport & logistics workforce equipped with innovation skills and knowledge. The purpose of the project is to improve innovation performance in the logistics industry through: • Raising awareness of the need for implementing innovative solutions among transportation & logistics employees and trainees • Creating and applying in practice the tools to identify the participants' predispositions and competencies for developing innovative solutions as Innovation Designers (IDs) and Innovation Executors (IEs) • Improving innovative solution developing skills in logistics • Gaining more insight into the potential for implementing innovative solutions in logistics companies • Bridging the gaps in the skills demonstrated by transportation & logistics employees and trainees • Developing e-learning courses with individual learning paths which provide their participants with innovation knowledge and increase their capabilities • Affording the project participant countries an opportunity to catch up with European leaders in innovation performance (Sweden, Denmark) • Changing the attitude of transportation & logistics employees and trainees from reactive to pro- active The project consists in building an innovative e-learning platform offering access to courses which boost creativity and innovation skills among transport & logistics employees, students and trainees. In the first place the platform members will be asked to complete a set of tests which identify creative competency and the level of knowledge on introducing and commercialising innovation. The diagnosis results will provide the grounds for allocating the participant to one of two groups: passive IE or active ID. This will enable proposing an individual learning path, designed specifically to close the gaps in areas of knowledge and skills as identified in competency tests. A new tool to use will be Assessment Center (AC) as a part of the SCRUM logic where test users verify the test based on which participants are classified as ID/IE. The subject matter of tests will be subject to control. The tools intended for final users will be amended in line with the test recommendations. The project will involves creating: - a tool to test and dividing users of the platform on two groups: “innovation designers” and “innovation executors” of the innovative solutions in logistics - Developing an online tool to diagnose the TSL employee creativity level and to specify the role of the tool in an innovative logistic organisation - the function of a designer or a conscious innovation recipient- executor - a tool to identify competence gaps related to the knowledge about tools and methods to implement innovative ideas in 4 language versions - Developing an online tool to diagnose gaps in 3 competences needed in the innovative organisation: a. Knowledge about the necessary tools and methods to implement innovative ideas in the organisation (e.g. design thinking), b. Knowledge about innovative solutions in logistics (e.g. Logistics 4.0. solutions) c. Innovation absorption. - e-learning courses in 4 languages The project's originality lies in adapting the course to individual requirements of the participant and offering him or her a custom learning path based on identified competency gaps. A new development will be an intelligent platform with e-learning courses which will automatically adapt and assign training modules to the user based upon the previous verification of his or her knowledge and skills. The project's target group include transportation & logistics employees and students. In the long run, an employee able to think laterally, be focused on the problem, familiar with creative thinking and unconventional idea implementation methods will prepare the ground for the next revolution.

Skills are crucial to ensure employability, innovation, competitiveness, growth and a more resilient recovery in the context of the current COVID-19 crisis in Europe. Therefore, EU policies in the field of Higher Education aim at addressing both the need to overcome skills mismatches and to promote excellence in skills development, while also fostering inclusion, innovation and effective and efficient Higher Education systems.Indeed, institutions must ensure that their content is up to date, that they provide relevant study programmes in fields where skills shortages exist and that they develop methods of learning and teaching that allow students to acquire the breadth and depth of skills they need. On the other hand, the European Higher Education Area emphasizes the importance of a formative assessment of competences to facilitate students’ learning process and the educator’s course strategy, since well-designed HE programmes and curricula, centred on students’ learning needs, are crucial for effective skills development.However, education and training systems are currently facing unprecedented challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and, for many, digital teaching and learning was the only viable emergency response in times of confinement measures and lockdown.Building on these evidences, SAPIENS aims at reinforcing the ability of education and training institutions to provide high-quality and inclusive digital education by providing Professors with an innovative, digital competence-based assessment tool that supports online and blended learning training pathways, which is of increased importance in light of the effects of the COVID-19 crisis in education.Specifically, SAPIENS seeks to:- Develop, test and implement an innovative tool to detect and assess learning shortcomings/gaps among students individually and the class as a whole;- Empower Professors teaching Physics, Mathematics, Statistics and Economics to implement new, competence-based assessment methodologies and tools in online or blended learning pathways in Higher Education studies;- Increase Professors’ skills to design and implement high-quality curricula for students, according to their learning needs and based on evidences provided by the SAPIENS Competence Assessment Tool;- Promote a greater adaptation of curricula and training programmes by adopting an assessment tool that is based on competences, thus making qualifications easier to understand (namely by the labour market);- Enable Higher Education Institutions to improve their capacities to offer online or blended learning pathways, while also promoting their competitiveness in an increasingly more digital world and fostering transnational cooperation. Over the course of 24 months, SAPIENS will achieve the following intellectual outputs:- O1 – Definition of a Competence Framework describing the proposed cognitive itineraries for the different areas of study targeted by SAPIENS, which will be based, integrate and build on the specific micro-competences (and the corresponding knowledge, skills and attitudes) identified and mapped at the internal level of Consortium HEIs. - O2 – Creation of an online Personalised Competence Assessment Tool that will detect and assess that are harder to acquire both in students individually and in the class as a whole, thus enabling educators to guide and adapt teaching programmes accordingly.- O3 – Definition and implementation of the SAPIENS Online Training Course for Professors, which will help to build the capacities of Professors to implement and use the SAPIENS automated evaluation system, so as to promote high-quality and inclusive digital education.The main SAPIENS target groups encompass: Higher Education Institutions and networks (including Professors and Researchers with expertise in Physics, Mathematics, Statistics and Economics); local and regional authorities, decision-makers and/or policy-makers (especially those engaged in education and training, digital education, skill development, youth and employment/employability); institutions and associations supporting educators and/or students.Coordinated by the Loyola Andalucía University, the SAPIENS Consortium brings together 5 institutions from Spain, Germany and Austria, who are experienced actors active in education & training that are strongly committed to improving the assessment of competence acquisition in Exact and Social Sciences HE studies (namely Physics, Mathematics, Statistics and Economics).

<< Objectives >>What the “CSecTOR” project would like to achieve is to assist companies in making their critical operations more secure and ensure their operational resilience, through operational cybersecurity training. A sophisticated OT cybersecurity framework and training course would offer companies ways to prepare and be protected against cyber-attacks on industrial assets, critical to their operations, and to uphold their operational integrity.<< Implementation >>1.Development of Project Management Plan; 2.Development of Quality Management Plan; 3.Design & Development of OT Cybersecurity Methodology; 4.Creation of OT Cybersecurity Self-Assessment Tool; 5.Production of OT Cybersecurity Training Course; 6.Design & Development of the OT Cybersecurity e-Training Platform; 7.Design and Develop OT Cybersecurity website; 8.Development of Share, Promote and Exploitation Plan;<< Results >>• An OT Cybersecurity Methodology, a methodological step-by-step framework • An OT Cybersecurity Self-Assessment Tool • An OT Cybersecurity Training Course, educational package with interactive material including videos, gamification, quizzes • An OT Cybersecurity e-Training Platform, an online interactive platform that hosts the above

The project MISSILE is focused on extremely hot topic, developing key competencies, related to awareness about the information security vulnerabilities, threats and countermeasures. The main goal of the project is to develop a methodology for raising awareness of the information security vulnerabilities, threats and security solutions through learning and training and therefore increase overall security level of users and organizations. It can be achieved by the following objectives: - to define user needs and requirements in the field of the information security training; - to develop a concept for information security training, covering the major issues regarding the contemporary information security issues; - to develop platform, which represents an actual implementation and actualizes the created methodology in a feasible and reliable way; - to create learning materials, related to information security issues, social engineering, users’ beliefs and understandings about sensitive data and information security, as well as selecting and applying properly defined security policies, mechanisms and countermeasures; - to conduct effective valorisation of the created concept and its realization by conducting of piloting with a selected target group of users.By basing our solution into iterative working platform and user trials, we will push our system into piloting for testing and evaluating the created methodology. Apart from the innovative methodology for information security training and learning, we also foresee the formulation and exploitation of security and awareness training methods’ synergies as a major outcome of the MISSILE project. This view is supported by our approach to allow dynamic definition of training and learning and by enabling novel methodology ahead of the state of the art.The MISSILE information security and awareness training / learning strategy is properly designed to have a multi-purposed impact, by (directly or indirectly) affecting the:- creating new ideas and practical results in science;- development of a methodology for training / learning in the field of information security;- reaching a wide public of specialists and non-specialists and new audiences at both European and local levels;- ensuring visibility across Europe, covering different countries and languages;- ensuring further dissemination and strong follow-up.