“Supporting Ukraine through citizen engagement at Baltic Universities” is a new 2-year Erasmus+ KA2 project starting in February 2023.The project aims to enhance Baltic universities’ social responsibility through civic engagement actions to address the current Ukrainian humanitarian crisis in the Baltics. Baltics4UA focuses on the need to empower higher education institutions (HEIs) to support active citizenship within formal education, while answering the need of Ukrainian refugees to continue their learning and life journey in the Baltics or in Ukraine.
The project foresees enhancing HEIs’ resilience and cooperation with the quadruple helix actors (policy, industry, society) in humanitarian crises, as well as upskilling academic staff, students and citizen to actively engage in social action to support Ukrainian populations in the Baltics. The project will unfold in a series of experience cafés, the production of open educational materials for academic staff and the release of a podcast series in which higher education staff involved in citizen engagement actions will share their experiences.
Baltics4UA will deliver:
- Landscape analysis: Examples of citizen engagement initiatives for Ukraine organised by Baltic Universities.
- Open access publication: “Academia as catalyst of the quadruple helix implementation for social responsibility in the Baltics”.
- Policy brief: Higher education in humanitarian crises: resilience, social inclusion, innovation.
- 6 experience cafés.
- Methodology for the design, implementation and assessment of citizen engagement.
- Podcast series: Capacity building with and for academic staff
- Open access publication: Ukrainians in the country and abroad: social and technological dimensions in crisis response within and beyond HEIs.
Partnership
Tallinn University (coordinator)
Kaunas University of Technology (LT)
Web2Learn (GR)
University of Tartu (EET)
Latvia University (LV)
Lviv Polytechnic National University (UA)
