The main priority of the C-Extended project emphasises the crucial role of Higher Education Institutions in boosting innovation, with an approach deeply rooted in the principle of partnership and with a novel focus on interdisciplinary and intersectoral education.
The project was created in order to outlines the strong need to bridge the lack of intersectoral dialogue and collaboration between the academic and the business sector, boosted reflection on the goals of innovation that is mobility across scientific disciplines and strengthening of higher education regionally.
The main activities:
1. Participation of students to learning activities in interdisciplinary modules during standard Erasmus+ mobility scheme at participating higher educational insitutes (host universities). The mobility will be enhanced with a set of interdisciplinary courses (with pre-approved mutual recognition) specific for each combination of home-host institution.
2. Participation of students to learning activities in their home universities exploiting extended blended learning approaches for the newly developed interdisciplinary modules before and after the physical mobility to enhance their skills acquisition and competences evaluation.
3. Participation of students to training intersectoral activities using the C-Extended mobility funding for up to 2 months to involve the students in an interdisciplinary and intersectoral placement in an organization (business, social enterprise) embedded in the local ecosystem of host universities.