Closed projects - Strategic Partnership for Higher Education - DIGIPASS

Project: DIGIPASS – Virtual Environments for Supporting Mobility

Involved UNIPV structure: Unità di Innovazione della Didattica e della Comunicazione Digitale, U.O.C. Mobilità Internazionale, GLOBEC - Center for Global Strategic Engagement

UNIPV Team: Prof. Stefano Govoni, Ms. Elena Caldirola, Ms. Michela Cobelli

Total Budget: € 418.422,00

UNIPV Budget: € 69.235

Project Duration: 01/09/2018 - 31/12/2021

Coordinator: The University of Edinburgh - United Kingdom

Ful Partners: Jagiellonian University - Poland; University of Amsterdam - The Netherlands; University College Dublin - Ireland; Universidad de Granada - Spain; University of Pavia - Italy

Description:

The DIGIPASS project aims to enhance international learning experiences for students by providing a holistic approach to online support for mobility experiences. This includes considering options for an international experience before departure, during the mobility period, and after mobility to support the development of intercultural skills and cross-cutting skills to improve students' employability. To achieve this goal, the project will create a kit of Open Educational Resources (OER) containing ICT tools to uniquely support the entire mobility lifecycle and to create a framework that HEIs can use to enhance their existing support systems and help embrace students' digital skills.

The project will address a series of specific objectives:

• Develop pedagogical content in a virtual resource bank and toolkit that specifically addresses all parts of the mobility lifecycle to enhance students' experience and ensure 24/7 access to support and guidance.
• Improve cross-cutting skills, social and civic awareness, digital skills, and media literacy.
• Develop innovative learning approaches such as gamified reflective tools focusing on cultural adaptation and immersion, mental health issues, risk assessment including health and safety, and reflective tools to help students articulate the employability benefits.
• Create effective learning pathways, particularly to widen participation and enable students with special needs to benefit from their physical mobility and offer virtual mobility opportunities to those needing greater confidence so they can explore a physical option later on.
• Design a holistic and transferable model to support both physical and virtual mobility through an innovative learning technology environment, which can be replicated in other institutions, higher education institutes, and even schools.
• Ensure a sustainable and scalable model that provides added value to other European institutions through an informed dissemination strategy and action plan across Europe and beyond.