Thursday, 11 May 2023 Within the FTDCHE/Sollertia project Department of Information Sciences and Technologies UP FAMNIT visited the Polytechnic University of Bucharest

On Wednesday 26 April asoc. prof. Jernej Vičič and Dr. Branko Kavšek from the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies UP FAMNIT visited Politehnica University of Bucharest (Romania) within the international Erasmus+ project FTDCHE – Fostering the Transversal Digital Competences in Higher Education, where all the representatives of the project met and made new progress. 

At the meeting, the guidelines for the development of a curriculum on digital skills based on the European benchmark DigComp - which provides a common understanding of digital competence and is an important tool to support the EU’s Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 -  were outlined. Besides, the tasks that will give rise to the teaching materials that are part of the project have been planned. 

With a duration of 30 months, this Erasmus+ project integrates five Universities ( the University of Málaga, the University of Applied Sciences of Leuven-Limburg, the University of Primorska, the Polytechnic University of Bucharesti,  Šiauliai State University of Applied Sciences) with the leaders in the research and development of Information and Communication Technologies. The project aims to promote the updating of advanced digital skills of citizens in general and Higher Education students. 

The project worth 250,000 euros, is granted by the European Commission.

Sollertia is the collective name of the 3-year Erasmus+ project KA220-HED »FTDCHE« (Fostering the Transversal Digital Competences in Higher Education), which started in December 2022, and its »LMS« (Learning Management System).

New FTDCHE/Sollertia webpage: https://www.ftdche.eu/.