Bringing Opportunities and Organizational Success To Small Local Universities in Ukraine (BOOST)
- Akademia Nauk Stosowanych W Elblagu
- Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogikal University
- Donbaska Natsionalna Akademiya Budivnytstva I Arkhitektury
- Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University
- Izmail State University of Humanities
- Kremenets Taras Shevchenko Regional Academy of Humanities and Pedagogy
- Mukachevo State University
izr. prof. dr. Sonja Rutar
The BOOST project primarily addresses the overarching priority of ‘Digital Transformation.' At the same
time, the project touches ‘Sustainable Growth and Jobs’ and ‘Migration and Mobility’ with both
capitalizing on the main overarching priority of Digital Transformation.
Ukrainian universities located in remote towns, who are not able to compete with top educational
establishments, face multiple challenges ranging from low technical capacity to falling behind the latest
approaches in learning and to underdeveloped soft skills of both staff and students. This is primarily the
result of being located outside of central cities and having a limited scope of communication. At the
same time, their survivability is vital for their communities as the local universities keep/push the general
level up. This project undertakes an ambitious aim to support remote universities that have never
enjoyed international project experience. The project will enrich the participating universities with simple
tools to increase their performance in different areas ranging from capacity to internationalization.
In this proposal, we use the term local university for a university located in a remote area, far from the
capital and center of its region.
The BOOST concept can be described as know-how sharing “from a local university to a local
university.” The following facts explain the project rationale:
1) local and central universities face different educational challenges and perform different community
roles.
2) local universities are often disregarded as potential international cooperation partners.
3) international cooperation at the level of the same size ensures easier experience exchange,
particularly for newcomers as the educational entities of the same level understand each other better.
This rationale has given rise to a project idea that local EU universities can share know-how with
motivated local universities from Ukraine who have never experienced international cooperation. The
partnership includes 3 EU universities and 6 UA universities. This is their first international project for 5
UA universities and 1 EU university. The BOOST partnership also includes a relocated university (BE
005) that in 2014 had to start its educational activity from scratch due to the warring activities happening
in Makiivka (which is not under the rule of Ukraine/Kyiv now). Having BE 0005 in our partnership means
engaging a socially and financially disadvantaged partner, disadvantaged teachers and students.
Our EU team has several people who speak Russian or Ukrainian. It means that participation in some
courses, development teams, and a study trip to Estonia can be offered to the participants with limited
English abilities. We hope that this opportunity will encourage them to improve their language skills in
the future and apply for opportunities which are beyond their capacity now.
The partnership has EU partners from Estonia, Poland, and Slovenia. We believe this cooperation will
help the participating Ukrainian universities comprehend what and how it was done when these
countries joined the European educational space and how the system of education had to change. The
gained experience can later be developed into a Roadmap for Local/Remote Universities so that other
first-timers or local universities can save resources and adapt this experience to their needs.
BOOST will progressively increase the technical and IT capacities of the Ukrainian first-timers, improve
digital and blended learning formats practiced at the UA partners, deepen the introduction of studentcentred
learning, promote the professional development of the teaching and administrative staff, and
expand international communication and internationalization of the Ukrainian institutions involved. Due
to the limited previous international cooperation experience, the project will likely become an eye-opener
for the UA partners, who are predominantly newcomers. This project is also an easy case for the EU
newcomer who has rich experience in IT, tech, and applied sciences but has never participated in any
activity. It will be a perfect opportunity for the Polish university to develop their Erasmus+ KA2 capacity.
The straightforward plan of the project with three focuses will help ensure the smooth running of the
project purposefully developed for inexperienced participants:
Focus 1: boosting hardware and software capacity
Focus 2: boosting student-centered blended learning capacity
Focus 3: boosting international cooperation and grant capacity
We expect that the project activities will bring rich fruit. During the zoom sessions that Lead Partner had
with UA partners to discuss the project issues, they expressed willingness and interest in the future
development that they will receive, which is, unfortunately, out of reach without of this project.
The BOOST project primarily addresses the overarching priority of ‘Digital Transformation.' At the same
time, the project touches ‘Sustainable Growth and Jobs’ and ‘Migration and Mobility’ with both
capitalizing on the main overarching priority of Digital Transformation.
Ukrainian universities located in remote towns, who are not able to compete with top educational
establishments, face multiple challenges ranging from low technical capacity to falling behind the latest
approaches in learning and to underdeveloped soft skills of both staff and students. This is primarily the
result of being located outside of central cities and having a limited scope of communication. At the
same time, their survivability is vital for their communities as the local universities keep/push the general
level up. This project undertakes an ambitious aim to support remote universities that have never
enjoyed international project experience. The project will enrich the participating universities with simple
tools to increase their performance in different areas ranging from capacity to internationalization.
In this proposal, we use the term local university for a university located in a remote area, far from the
capital and center of its region.
The BOOST concept can be described as know-how sharing “from a local university to a local
university.” The following facts explain the project rationale:
1) local and central universities face different educational challenges and perform different community
roles.
2) local universities are often disregarded as potential international cooperation partners.
3) international cooperation at the level of the same size ensures easier experience exchange,
particularly for newcomers as the educational entities of the same level understand each other better.
This rationale has given rise to a project idea that local EU universities can share know-how with
motivated local universities from Ukraine who have never experienced international cooperation. The
partnership includes 3 EU universities and 6 UA universities. This is their first international project for 5
UA universities and 1 EU university. The BOOST partnership also includes a relocated university (BE
005) that in 2014 had to start its educational activity from scratch due to the warring activities happening
in Makiivka (which is not under the rule of Ukraine/Kyiv now). Having BE 0005 in our partnership means
engaging a socially and financially disadvantaged partner, disadvantaged teachers and students.
Our EU team has several people who speak Russian or Ukrainian. It means that participation in some
courses, development teams, and a study trip to Estonia can be offered to the participants with limited
English abilities. We hope that this opportunity will encourage them to improve their language skills in
the future and apply for opportunities which are beyond their capacity now.
The partnership has EU partners from Estonia, Poland, and Slovenia. We believe this cooperation will
help the participating Ukrainian universities comprehend what and how it was done when these
countries joined the European educational space and how the system of education had to change. The
gained experience can later be developed into a Roadmap for Local/Remote Universities so that other
first-timers or local universities can save resources and adapt this experience to their needs.
BOOST will progressively increase the technical and IT capacities of the Ukrainian first-timers, improve
digital and blended learning formats practiced at the UA partners, deepen the introduction of studentcentred
learning, promote the professional development of the teaching and administrative staff, and
expand international communication and internationalization of the Ukrainian institutions involved. Due
to the limited previous international cooperation experience, the project will likely become an eye-opener
for the UA partners, who are predominantly newcomers. This project is also an easy case for the EU
newcomer who has rich experience in IT, tech, and applied sciences but has never participated in any
activity. It will be a perfect opportunity for the Polish university to develop their Erasmus+ KA2 capacity.
The straightforward plan of the project with three focuses will help ensure the smooth running of the
project purposefully developed for inexperienced participants:
Focus 1: boosting hardware and software capacity
Focus 2: boosting student-centered blended learning capacity
Focus 3: boosting international cooperation and grant capacity
We expect that the project activities will bring rich fruit. During the zoom sessions that Lead Partner had
with UA partners to discuss the project issues, they expressed willingness and interest in the future
development that they will receive, which is, unfortunately, out of reach without of this project.
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