"<< Background >>Our project is in line with European ambitions regarding the value of education set out in ""COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS on achieving the European Education Area by 2025. European Society and Economy"" pointing to education as essential to the vitality of European society and economy. This document recognizes that education is the basis of self-fulfillment, employability, and active and responsible citizenship. Education is at the heart of the European way of life, strengthening the social market economy and democracy through freedom, diversity, human rights and social justice. Therefore, as signatories write, a people- centered policy is more important than ever. During the first-ever joint political debate on 8 November 2019, the Ministers Education and Finance Ministers agreed that investing in education, skills and competences is a necessity for all Member States and should be a strategic priority for the EU. Erasmus + is instrumental in spreading effective practices and enhancing cooperation on national and European reforms, and in promoting citizenship, fundamental freedoms, tolerance and anti discrimination through education. The same document notes that education and culture are the key to building inclusive and cohesive societies, and that knowledge makes it the basis of Europe's vitality and prosperity based on common principles of integration, mobility and innovation. In line with these principles, our project of an open educational offer assumes innovation, openness, universality and transdisciplinarity, cooperation and exchange as the basis for creating a modern European offer of higher education. With this project we want to match the activity of the open European educational environment, enrich it and animate its comprehensive developmet.Taking these challenges, our project is a response to the need to develop academic didactics that takes into account an open, universal and humanistic approach to education. We pay attention that the didactic offer of the universities participating in the project does not include truly interdisciplinary and trans-domain subjects, enabling students to cooperate, exchange and dialogue as inspiration for active and responsible participation in the implementation of their own educational projects; there is a need for a greater internationalization of teaching based on the personal, cultural and material resources of universities operating in the consortium, which favors integration and builds real foundations for cooperation and development.We observe the lack of a transgressive approach in designing academic didactics responding to the need to cross the boundaries of individual interests, the content of specialist education, areas of knowledge and customarily defined frameworks for the organization of university life, and the insufficient presence of universal design principles enabling learning by all interested persons, regardless of individual and organizational limitations. The last problem that we diagnose is the limited relationship of education and research with the broadly understood environment, including the natural environment, taking into account the principles of sustainable coexistence and respect, care and protection of its values.Therefore, our main goal is to create a truly international, interdisciplinary and modern student education project, taking into account the recommendations regarding legal regulations, organizational framework, methodological foundations of this solution, defined as the Cross-disciplinary Academic Offer.<< Objectives >>Academic didactics must face new challenges in the contemporary world, which goes beyond binary oppositions, finds a balance between the competing systems, experience online collectivism of network crowds, whose perception is strongly focused on interaction. The main challenge for researchers, academic teachers, people responsible for organizing didactics, and finally students is to go beyond the boundaries and connect despite the differences. Therefore, what we need is a cross-domain, transdisciplinary, international, transcultural approach. Our goal is to create a model for organizing didactics at the international level, to create an educational offer that is open enough to be applied in various cultural, organizational and legal conditions. Such an offer can be designed by an international team of experts: researchers representing various fields and disciplines, managers organizing didactics at various universities, teachers using multiple methodologies. Dialogue/polylogue will allow educators who create the offer and students who will benefit from it to experience the real cooperation, the benefits of diversity and social commitment. These mail goals are accompanied by following, more precise ones:1) exchange of good practices in the field of remote teaching organization in the international and interdisciplinary dimension (including the organization of summer schools), 2) preparation of a collective report containing the frame for the general didactic offer and recommendations for legal, organizational, methodical and substantive solutions enabling the implementation of this offer in various universities (the ones belonging to the consortium in the first place);3) developing a model set of recommendations for the organization of transdisciplinary summer schools;4) preparing a set of ready-to-use class scenarios and teaching materials as a basis for possible implementation of the cross-disciplinary didactic offer;5) strengthening cooperation between the universities involved in the project and all T4E Alliance.<< Implementation >>There are five universities involved in Cross-disciplinary Academic Offer implementation; they are all members of the Transform4Europe Alliance. Four of them: the University of Silesia in Katowice (project leader), The Universidad de Alicante, Sofia University and Vytautas Magnus University will form the consortium to work out the three project outputs. Forth higher education institution, Saarland University (the Transtorm4Europe Alliance leader), as an associated partner, will not only consult the outputs but also promote the project results among other T4E members. Saarland University will also guarantee that project results will be implemented at as many universities belonging to the T4E Alliance as possible and will support them in creating an European campus together.Following activities are included in the project:a)5 Transnational Project Meetings (2 online, 3 face-to-face meetings at each of the consortium members) b)3 intellectual outputs: - International University Educational Offer. Report and methodological-organizational recommendations- Good practices in the implementation of transdisciplinary summer schools- Set of class scenarios with educational materials enabling the implementation of the University Educational Offerc)6 disseminating events/workshops organized at all consortium partners and addressed to different groups of recipients (education management, academic teachers, students as well as school teachers – 60 people) The University of Silesia in Katowice as the project leader, intends to fully implement the project results as part of a second-cycle studies reform. Other consortium members (including an associate partner) will partially implement the results according to each institution's possibilities individually. Project outputs will be promoted among other Transform4Europe Alliance members: the University of Trieste, Vytautas Magnus University in Kowno, Estonian Academy of Arts.The character of the CROCODILE project results from the need to internationalize academic education and organize it in a deeply interdisciplinary way to respond to the challenges of the contemporary world. Working out a new, modern frame for organizing academic education based on virtual mobility and an interdisciplinary, trans-domain approach to teaching and learning will enable universities to educate engaged and responsible graduates ready to face the challenges of their professional, social and economic future.Delivery of all the results will be as green as possible both at the planning stage (e.g. increased carbon-free digital contact between partners) and at theimplementation stage (use of distance learning methods and tools). The selection of partners allows us to ensure the diversity that is so characteristic of today's relations in Europe and the world. All the project partners contribute to: - project management - quality assurance -dissemination on the country level - other local activities - ensuring the sustainability of project results. CROCODILE project's output and outcomes will be disseminated and communicated through several actions in order to increase the expected informed and reached the audience. All activities planned during the project implementation intend to increase utilization of the project results by the target groups, potential users and other interested organizations. The project is designed for a long-term impact and perspective that go beyond the period of implementation under Erasmus+ programme co-financing.Project activities and results are clearly in line with the missions and current actions of all partners, who will, therefore, embed project results within their operations, profiting from this opportunity to widen and improve the quality and scope of their current activities. In doing so, all partners ensure that project results are maintained and possibly further improved through current use.<< Results >>Three following project results are expected: 1.International Cross-disciplinary University Educational Offer. Report and methodological-organizational recommendations (containing indications and recommendations regarding the development and implementation of the University Educational Offer as an element in the offer of all universities participating in the project);2.Good practices in the implementation of transdisciplinary summer schools (a guidebook as a model set of recommendations for the organization of transdisciplinary summer schools);3.Set of class scenarios with educational materials enabling the implementation of the Cross-disciplinary University Educational OfferIt is assumed that the project results will have a practical nature, corresponding with the universal European values. Therefore, the project results will have a significant impact on various institutions and groups of recipients:-universities involved in the project that will be able to enrich their educational offer by introducing new, international, cross-disciplinary element;-other consortiums of higher education institutions in Europe that are willing to introduce such element into their didactic offer;-high school teachers and people responsible for organizing school didactics. The project results can inspire a significant change in the way teachers and students regard academic education. A joint academic didactic offer will give the participants the possibility to collect different, multicultural experience. Unlimited availability without barriers will allow students and teachers of various types of schools to develop creativity, openness, and education potential. Also, European universities under the T4E Alliance will benefit from strengthening cooperation which increases the virtual mobility of students and academic staff and enanables optimal use of research and didactic resources of all consortium members"