Projects

Project No. 2024-KA220-VET-BBADAA4B
Project Coordinator: BUDAPESTI MUSZAKI ES GAZDASAGTUDOMANYI EGYETEM, Hungary
Project Duration: 2024.11.01 – 2026.10.31
Project Website: https://www.discosms.eu/
Project Title: Digitally Signed Credentials – Smart Motivation with Stackability
Project Acronym: DISCO SMS

Other Project Partners:

• OGRES TEHNIKUMS, Latvia
• INNOPARES CONSULTORES Y FORMADORES S.L., Spain
• MILITOS SYMVOULEUTIKI A.E., Greece
• KNOWLEDGE INNOVATION CENTRE (MALTA) LTD, Malta
• LIETUVOS NUOTOLINIO IR E-MOKYMOSI (LIEDM) ASOCIACIJA, Lithuania

Project Aim:

The DISCO SMS project aims to enhance education and training by focusing on soft skills recognition by creating methodology that combines them with Open Badge technology. It proposes a trainer and VET teacher training course that utilizes gamification techniques using digital open badges to recognize and reward these soft skills in a visible, transferable, and multilingual manner, supporting learners in a diverse social and professional environment.

Project Results:

A 30-hour online course and downloadable trainers’ and teachers’ guidebook with 3 modules on gamification, on how to recognize soft skills, and on interoperability and stackability, including scenarios covering all educational sectors, in English, Hungarian, Latvian, Spanish, Greek, and Lithuanian, designed to allow for self-learning. The material is supported with a running and operational OB 2.1 compatible Displayer certified portal with enhanced stackability functions and services.

How to organize STEM school activities online? How to enrich School STEM curriulum with the resources from museums? These are the main project ideas that the partnership focus on. LieDM Association being a partner in the project focus on helping schools to find innovative solutions for STEAM teaching, for creating online courses and in assisting them to organize the project activities online.

Project aims at contributing to STEAM school education to promote secondary school students basic skills and key competencies that help them to adapt to the demands of the labor market. Project seeks to identify the opportunities what museums environment may offer and to develop new learning methodological approaches and several STEAM materials with the focus on empowering STEAM school education using technologies.

ERASMUSE project results are planned as follow:

• ERASMUSE e-learning platform (available at erasmuse.liedm.net);
• A handbook – educational programme and the resource pack for STEAM educators: Facts on Steam Education and Instructions for Steam Education Through Museum Based Resources and Tools;
• miniMOOCS with active learning scenaios for enaging students in digital learning at museums.

Project No. 2019-1-SE01-KA201-060604
Project coordinator: Ostra Gymnasiet, Stockholm, Sweden
Contact person at LieDM association: Estela Daukšienė (estela.dauksiene@liedm.net)
Project duration: 2019.09.01 – 2022.08.31
Project website: N/A

The recognition and transfer of individual credits through ECTS was created for an era of physical mobility and is optimized accordingly. EU recognition instruments, such as the diploma supplement and the EQF, support the award of qualifications in the areas of formal learning and are supported by recognition procedures for non-formal and informal learning.

While these tools can be used to support open education and virtual mobility, a number of caveats exist to their use, including that:

• little to no guidance exists on how to document virtual mobility / open education experiences for the purposes of credit transfer;
• procedures for recognition of prior learning or of non-formal/informal learning do not scale to the massive numbers of students enrolling in open education programmes such as MOOCs;
• there is no European approach to recognizing, transferring or scaling open education modules.

These problems are so pronounced, that many open educational providers are creating parallel systems of credentials that are not even described in terms of ECTS – leading to a situation where millions of students per year are enrolling in open courses offered by universities which do not necessarily award valid or recognized forms of credit.

OEPass intends to address these issues by creating a standard format for describing open education and virtual mobility experiences in terms of ECTS which:

• addresses common criticisms (lack of trust) of open education, in particular with respect to student assessment and identity;
• is scalable to hundreds or thousands of students through automatic issuing and verification of certificates;
• can capture a wide range of non-formal and formal open education experiences.

Project No. 2017-1-DE01-KA203-003546
Project coordinator: Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Heilbronn – DHBW, Germany
Contact person at LieDM association: Estela Daukšienė (estela.dauksiene@liedm.net)
Project duration: 2017.11.01 – 2020.01.31
Project website: http://www.oepass.eu

Project No. 2016-1-HU01-KA202-022916
Project coordinator: Budapest University of Technology and Economics – BME, Hungary
Contact person at LieDM association: Estela Daukšienė (estela.dauksiene@liedm.net)
Project duration: 2016.11.01 – 2018.10.31
Project website: http://www.vocalerasmus.eu

Other project partners:

• Lithuanian Association of Distance and e-Learning – LieDM, Lithuania
• Vytautas Magnus University – VMU, Lithuania
• Baden-Würtemberg Cooperative State University Heilbronn – DHBW, Germany
• Universidad de la Iglesia de Deusto – UDEUSTO, Spain
• Ogres Tehnikums – OT, Latvia

The project aims to foster the open collaboration of HE teachers and VET trainers to design online, open and collaborative learning activities for diverse target groups embedding digital, social, and intercultural competences.

In order to meet this aim, the partnership will develop training materials and organise face-to-face, week long training events where teachers and trainers will be able to

• develop skills to digitalise quality learning resources, to design online collaborative learning activities embedding digital, social, and intercultural competence development, and to tutor international, intercultural diverse learner groups,
• collaborate designing mutually online and open curriculum for diverse international learner groups, and
• establish open educational practices for future references.

The project will enhance access to training for all through C-VET developing online and open curriculum and empowering teacher and trainer collaboration.

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Project No. 2015-1-ES01-KA201-016090
Project coordinator: Fundacion Deusto, Spain
Project partner: LieDM association
Contact person at LieDM association: Vida Žvinienė (v.zviniene@liedm.net)
Project duration: 2015.11.01 – 2018.04.30
Project website: http://odl.deusto.es/

Other project partners:

• Ellinogermaniki Agogi S.A. (EA), Greece
• Universita Degli Studi di Palermo (UNIPA), Italy
• Hariduse Infotehnoloogia Sihtasutus (HITSA), Estonia

ODL equips European school teachers to use micro-MOOC – an innovative approach for deploying STEM laboratories. By applying these to everyday teaching practices, ODL strengthens the profile of the teaching profession.

The project objectives are to:

• Establish a MOOC platform comprising a collection of micro-MOOCs, learning scenarios, OERs, and STEM laboratories.
• Embed STEM micro-MOOCs in school curricula.
• Disseminate micro-MOOCs with STEM labs to a wide range of EU audiences.

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Project No. 2014-1-LT01-KA202-000562
Project coordinator: Šiauliai VET
Project partner: LieDM association
Head of the Project: Airina Volungevičienė (airina.volungeviciene@liedm.net)
Project coordinator Estela Daukšienė (estela@liedm.net)
Project duration: 2014.09.01 – 2016.08.31
Project website: https://liedm.net/en/projects/openprof

Other project partners:

• Universidade Aberta (UAb), Portugal
• European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN), UK
• Fondo Formación Euskadi (FFE), Spain
• Auxilium pro Regionibus Europae in Rebus Culturalibus (Aux), Austria

The aim of OPENPROF project is to foster open and international professional collaboration for innovation by training them to openly collaborate in the development of online innovative curriculum designing using open educational resources. The requirements raised in this project for the innovation of curriculum will allow to create learning services suitable for diverse learners and target groups, including work – based learning.

The training materials created during the project implementation focus on OER sustainability models, tools for OER creation and adaptation and teaching programm adaptation for work-based teaching and learning. Project partners will collaborate on OER creation and adaptation, as well as their integration into modules for work-based teaching and learning.

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Project No. LLP-LDV-TOI-2011-LT-0087
Project coordinator: Vytautas Magnus University
Project partner: LieDM association
Head of the project: dr. Airina Volungevičienė airina.volungeviciene@liedm.net
Project coordinator: Estela Daukšienė estela@liedm.net
Project duration: 2011.10.01 – 2013.09.30
Project website: http://www.reviveproject.eu/vet/

Other project partners:

• European foundation for quality and e-learning (EFQUEL), Belgium
• Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Hungary
• SCIENTER, Italy
• Kaunas VET (KMPPMC), Lithuania
• Fondo Formación Euskadi (FFE), Spain
• European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN), UK

REVIVE VET project aims to review and revive VET practices applying innovative ICT integration methodologies and building online communities of VET and cVET professionals, who collaboratively work together, seeking to improve the quality, attractiveness and accessibility of VET services.

Broadening the forms of collaboration for school community introducing the model of shaping the moral values and innovative educational methods

Project No. VP1-2.2-ŠMM-05-K-01-070
Project coordinator LieDM association
The head of the project: dr. Airina Volungevičienė airina.volungeviciene@liedm.net
Project coordinator: Gintarė Vaitonytė gintare@liedm.net
Project duration: 2010.11.25 – 2012.11.24

Project partners:

• Prienai “Žiburys” gymnasium
• Prienai “Ąžuolas” secondary school
• Priena Nemunas primary school
• Šiauliai Didždvario gymnasium
• “Šėltinio vaikai”

After implementation of the project the forms for school community collaboration is going to be broader as the model of shaping moral values and innovative educational methods are implemented in formal and informal education. Following international experience, innovative tools for project target group collaboration in local and national level are applied by creating networking collaboration possibilities for school communities. The focus is on positive attitude in different age groups of school pupils, integration of family and parents into informal educational activities, and developing competences of tolerance in the school community. Project exploitation is ensured by activities created in virtual learning environment and the created tradition of school community collaboration for solving social and psychological problems.

Project website: http://bendravimas-vertybe.ziburiogimnazija.lt:8080

Project summary:  The well-being of students and educators in digital education is crucial. Our policy experimentation project addresses the lack of understanding, strategies, and coordinated policy efforts in this area. We build evidence, create solutions, and conduct experiments to refine and implement systemic policy changes. The project begins with comprehensive evidence building through research, assessment, and policy mapping on digital well-being. We then develop Digital Well-being Framework, integrating:

1. Person-specific factors including digital competences and health considerations.
2. Context-specific factors involving educational environment, learning design and school culture.
3. Device-specific factors pertaining to the types of digital devices and best practices for safe and balanced use.

The Digital Well-being Framework provides principles for responsible technology use and strategies for creating balanced digital learning environments. It includes practical recommendations for selecting technological solutions well-suited for learning design. We test the Digital Well-being Framework through experimentation in real-world educational settings. This iterative process refines our strategies, ensuring they are effective and relevant. Ultimately, we influence educational policies at regional, national, and European levels. By creating evidence-based policy recommendations and fostering systemic change, we strive to embed digital well-being into every classroom. A strong partnership of universities, schools, policymakers, and EdTech experts, enhances the project’s capacity to address the complex challenges of digital well-being in education.

Partners:

1. KIC – Knowledge Innovation Centre (Malta)
2. TLU – Tallinn University (Estonia)
3. UOC – Open University of Catalonia (Spain)
4. EDEN – Digital Learning Europe (Estonia)
5. EUN – PARTNERSHIP AISBL (Belgium)
6. EDUCRAFTOR OY AB (Finland)
7. NATIONAL AGENCY FOR EDUCATION (Lithuania)

Associated partners:

1. LieDM – Lithuanian Association of Distance and e-Learning (Lithuania)
2. LKNUC – Lithuanian Educational Centre for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Lithuania)
3. Stifterverband – Stifterverband fur die Deutsche Wissenschaft (Germany)

General Objectives:

1. Improve digital skills and competences among teachers and students to support effective learning and teaching.
2. Develop and refine digital learning environments to ensure they support students’ physical, cognitive, emotional, and psychological well-being.
3. Integrate digital competences into curriculum design to foster a cohesive and inclusive educational experience.
4. Engage educators, policymakers, and communities to collaboratively promote digital well-being in education.
5. Use research, data, and policy experimentation to inform policy development and implementation strategies that enhance digital education practices.
6. Contribute to the strategic goals of the European Education Area, the European Higher Education Area, and the Digital Education Action Plan.

Work packages:

1. PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY ASSURANCE
2. ASSESSMENT OF DIGITAL WELL-BEING IN EDUCATIONAL ECOSYSTEM
3. INSIGHT ANALYSIS AND FRAMEWORK DEVELOPMENT
4. EDUCATOR EMPOWERMENT
5. POLICY EXPERIMENTATION AND IMPLEMENTATION
6. DISSEMINATION, OUTREACH AND IMPACT

DISCLAIMER: “Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.”

Project partners:

1. Evro-sredozemska univerza, Slovenia
2. Vytautas Magnus university, Lithuania
3. Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany
4. IMC Fachhochschule Krems, Austria

The aim of the project is to develop OER course modules, conveying digital teaching and learning methods of online collaborative learning in a blended learning context for educators in higher education (HE), aiming to increase the capacity and readiness of HE institutions to manage an effective shift towards digital education.

Project results: The OER-CODEX project results can be distinguished in three types:

1. A methodology to develop OER courses is developed with all partners, which will be openly available for all educators, who already have experience in digital learning and teaching methods and also want to develop OER courses to further strengthen the use of digital tools and therefore shift towards digital education. Furthermore, this methodology includes a special aspect that in the developed course modules also exemplary OER content is created with educators as a core output, which itself will be OER and therefore readily available for all interested educators to be used freely.
2. The developed course modules: All course modules are structured within the areas of the EU DigCompEdu framework and therefore are directly fitted to the objectives identified by the EU. As these modules are also aimed to increase the competency levels of educators form A1 (Newcomer) to B1 (Integrator), the educators will have the defined competencies after successfully completing the respective course.
3. The OER output of selected course modules: As the course modules are designed to generate OER output collaboratively with the participants in the direction of the taught learning content, the piloting of these courses will generate OER output, which can be published as an OER as well. Furthermore, each time one of the course modules is taught, it will generate a different OER output and therefore increase the available variety of OER content for educators looking to engage in digital education and therefore developing digital readiness, resilience and capacity independent from institutional support. Higher Education Priority: Stimulating innovative learning and teaching practice As this consortium is a well-balanced mix of higher education institutions from 4 different nations, it is capable of engaging in interconnected higher education systems and with the designated OER content of course modules and generated OER output in these courses, we are developing the digital skills and competences of HE educators. As this is a concrete effort to foster virtual and blended learning by giving the educators the expertise and tools for digital education, we stimulate innovative learning and teaching practices in HE. Experienced educators are also giving a methodology with which they themselves can develop OER course modules for digital education. This also leads to a new impulse for the spread of digital education. Furthermore, we give the educators concrete exemplary OER content, which can be used freely from the start of their efforts to implement digital education. This gives the educators a concrete idea on which the further development of their own blended courses can be based.

Project partner in Lithuania: KTU

Project website: https://steam-active.pixel-online.org/

Contact person in LieDM association: Vida Drąsutė (vida.drasute@gmail.com)

Project partner in Lithuania: Kauno Juozo Grušo meno gimnazija

Project website:  https://game-work.eu

Contact person in LieDM association: Vida Drąsutė (vida.drasute@gmail.com)

Professional guidance & counseling in transformation – academic knowledge and skills of CGC practitioners (HE)

Project partner in Lithuania: VšĮ “eMundus”

Project website: digitransformation.net

Contact person in LieDM association: Vida Drąsutė (vida.drasute@gmail.com)

Project partner: KTU
Project website: https://v4t.pixel-online.org/
Contact person in LieDM association: Member of Directorate Vida Drąsutė (vida@liedm.net)

Project partner: Kauno Jono ir Petro Vileišių mokykla
Projekto website: https://parsifal.pixel-online.org
Contact person in LieDM association: Member of Directorate Vida Drąsutė (vida@liedm.net)

Project partner: Kauno Juozo Grušo meno gimnazija
Projekto website: http://www.goscience.eu/
Contact person in LieDM association: Member of Directorate Vida Drąsutė (vida@liedm.net)

Project partner: KTU
Project website: https://mathe.pixel-online.org/
Contact person in LieDM association: Member of Directorate Vida Drąsutė (vida@liedm.net)

Project partner: VšĮ “eMundus”
Project website: http://tik.pixel-online.org/
Contact person in LieDM association: Member of Directorate Vida Drąsutė (vida@liedm.net)

Project coordinator: Klaipėdos Universitetas
Project website: https://www.ku.lt/focus
Contact person in LieDM association: Member of Direstorate Dalia Baziukė (Dalia.Baziuke@ku.lt)