MEDDICS

MEDDICS’s activities consist in teaching mainly WUT’s students (but also teachers and other educational actors), no matter of specialization or area of interests.

Through this project we intend to offer an innovative & updated curriculum through 6 courses with mainly students from WUT.

Through the designed 6 courses, we intend:

• to develop innovative courses, that are not only addressing some of the challenges that Europe is facing today and in the near future along with enhancing their digital citizenship competences

• to equip the WUT students with digital and media literacy skills

• to prepare the WUT students to become active & responsible digital citizens.

We will also organize workshops & webinars, where we expect other related stakeholders to join us to discuss & better understand the EU dimension in such related contexts.

The project team involves highly qualified staff from WUT university and from 2 different faculties. They have European tailored experience both in teaching (Erasmus teachers, teaching in EU MA, EU Summer Schools) and in research: working in international EU projects and research teams (ie books and articles), attending conferences, research specialization in EU studies etc.

MEDDICS outputs are: a project website, 5 courses, scholarly papers and articles, a digital observatory with students’ & teachers’ creations, a social media presence, annual workshops and project reports.

The MEDICS’s module is intended to all WUT students, no matter of specialization or area of interests. There will be courses offered to all Bachelor students, as optionals, cross-curricular, 2ECTS and also non-compulsory courses, offered by two distinct faculties/departments that have different Bachelor students (some of them prospected teachers and some students of Digital Media Programme (without the EU studies dimension). There will be intensive training courses for MA and Postgraduate students (some of them already teachers), developed under a CC license. For the compulsory courses, the team will use their students and prospective and current teachers from all levels of education, as well as other relevant stakeholders, incl policy makers. For the optional courses, the participants will be selected according with the WUT internal procedure: each student from all WUT’s 11 faculties should opt in the previous (first and second) academic year for the next year (second and third) 3-7 optional courses. Each course will be hosted on the WUT e-learning platform; will include new technologies, tools and methodologies, have cross-disciplinary activities with OER integrated.

We estimate approx. 200-350 students to participate in this module (with blended courses) each year. An annual dissemination workshop will also be organized within the module.

The estimated impact of the project refers to:

• diversifying teaching and research by incorporating both new and critical important topics for our students/society into subjects that do not traditionally cover EU matters in their core content;

• an interdisciplinary approach that target multidisciplinary knowledge and beneficiary on the topic of European integration process, both from university and pre-university level, as well as educational policy practitioners;

• platform for lifelong learning and intergeneration open discussion, interdisciplinary network;

• creating initiatives that better meet society’s needs by enhancing the overall development of students, both professionally and personally;

• emerging models and innovative methodologies, such as flipped classroom, allows university to make college credentials more accessible, transferable towards other Romanian universities, and design programs that offer a better value proposition for learners at all stages.