LEAD IN: Leadership for Innovation and Sustainable Tomorrow – The Future Starts Now

In Industry 5.0, where technology and artificial intelligence meet human-centricity and sustainability, leaders are no longer simply "process managers" but, above all, architects of change. Their role is to combine innovation with social responsibility, financial results with employee well-being, and data with empathy. This is precisely what LEAD IN prepares future leaders for.

LEAD IN is an innovative, new-generation leadership course specifically designed for technical university students who are poised to become the leaders of Industry 5.0. This project addresses the key challenges of the 21st century by combining advanced engineering skills with an ethical, sustainable, and innovative management style.

Strengths and Unique Course Structure

1. International Expertise from Three Universities:

The course was developed as a KA220-HED partnership by three leading European higher education institutions from Poland (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology), Sweden (Linkoping University) and Portugal (Lusofona University). This synergy of knowledge and experience from diverse academic environments guarantees a broad perspective and the highest quality of content.

2. Integrated Thematic Modules

The program is divided into strategically interconnected modules that comprehensively prepare students for a leadership role:

• Leadership for Innovation: Focuses on defining innovation, key competencies for innovation leaders, and creating a conducive environment for implementing change within teams
• Leadership for Diversity and Inclusion: Demonstrates how Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) becomes a strategic driver for innovation
• Leadership for Sustainable Change: Teaches how to integrate sustainable development goals (ESG, Triple Bottom Line) with an organizational vision to lead long-term, adaptive changes.

3. Innovative Methodology and Interactive Tools:

Forget boring lectures! LEAD IN prioritizes active learning:

• Decision-Making Games and Role-Play: Students participate in interactive exercises, role-play scenarios, and mini decision-making games that simulate real-world leadership and managerial challenges
• Practical Case Studies: Analysis of complex business cases (e.g., Elon Musk/Twitter, Paul Polman/Unilever, Patagonia) allows for the immediate application of theory to practice
• Knowledge Exchange: Utilization of platforms for peer-review in online assignments, which deepens reflection and teaches constructive feedback.

LEAD IN is an investment in your future – it is a course that transforms technical students into conscious, innovative, and responsible leaders capable of driving global, sustainable transformation.

In brief:

This isn't just another e-learning course with static presentations to click through. The entire LEAD IN framework is built on mechanisms from Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and ABC learning design. Students learn through listening, watching, doing, discussing, collaborating, and creating their own solutions.

In practice, this means:

• mini-video lectures
• podcasts featuring business practitioners
• interactive quizzes
• discussion forums
• peer-review exercises
• decision-making games and digital escape rooms

LEAD IN website: LEAD IN Project

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the authors(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Development of the Model and Common Information Space of Virtual Exchange Programs - MOVEx, 2022-2025 under the framework of Erasmus+ programme

Disclaimer

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the authors(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

The main aim of MOVEx project

Organizing an effective Virtual Exchange Program (VEP) as a platform for professional and intercultural interaction, exchange of experience, to ensure high-quality educational services and create conditions for developing collaboration and communication skills of young people to navigate the world’s challenges and broaden access to international learning for every student, regardless of their circumstances, background, or ability, especially at a time when student mobility is limited by financial resources or national security issues.

Objectives

1. Creating an effective mechanism of supporting and Virtual Exchange Program, adapting to the new academic context and integration into the education system of the host university.
2. Formation of global competencies and skills (digital literacy, cultural awareness and the ability to negotiate and cooperate across borders) necessary for career growth among young people in Ukraine and Georgia.
3. Improving the qualifications of the administrative and teaching staff to gain skills in working with mobile students and helping them master the skills of intercultural communication and organizing effective interaction with students as representatives of different cultures.
4. Development of a tool for exchange of information and intercultural dialogue among students and teachers at different universities, nationalities, cultures, religions and languages, improving the efficiency of the educational process by creating the web portal Common Information Space (CIS).
5. Creating an international consortium within the system of advanced administrative and teaching staff training to work with intercultural groups and to develop the educational, scientific and cultural potential of all program participants.
6. Improving the areas and forms of cooperation and communication for all academic and administrative units of the universities, methodological and technical support for Virtual Exchanges implementation and other issues that have a significant impact on the involvement of students in Virtual Exchange processes.

MOVEx Consortium 

• P1  POLITECHNIKA WROCLAWSKA, Poland - Coordinating institution 
• P2  HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY, Greece  
• P3  Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia 
• P4  IVAN FRANKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LVIV, Ukraine 
• P5  Kryvyi Rih National University, Ukraine 
• P6  KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF RADIO ELECTRONICS, Ukraine 
• P7  KHMELNITSKY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, Ukraine 
• P8  SOKHUMI STATE UNIVERSITY, Georgia 
• P9  SHOTA RUSTAVELI STATE UNIVERSITY, Georgia 
• P10  AKAKI TSERETELI STATE UNIVERSITY, Georgia 
• P11  PUBLIC ORGANIZATION "UKRAINIAN SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL IT SOCIETY", Ukraine 
• P12  Kryvyi Rih Foundation of the Future, Ukraine 
• P13  Laboratory of Ideas, Ukraine 

List of workpackages

• WP1 Project Management, Coordination, Quality Assurance
• WP2 Development of methodological support for a model of Virtual Exchange Programs
• WP3 Creating a network of Consulting Offices for Academic Mobility Programs
• WP4 Development of the web portal Common Information Space (CIS)
• WP5 Practical approbation of the Virtual National and International Academic Exchange Programs
• WP6 Dissemination

Project Management Board meetings

November 2023 meeting

Contact data:

Mariusz Mazurkiewicz, Project Coordinator

 mariusz.mazurkiewicz@pwr.edu.pl

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UNIVERSITY TEACHERS' CERTIFICATION CENTRES: INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO PROMOTION TEACHING EXCELLENCE / UTTERLY

Project Reference Number: 619227-EPP-1-2020-1-UA-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP
ERASMUS+, Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education,
KA2 – Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices – Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education, Selection 2020

Consortium

• Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Leader) 
• Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania  
• Universitaet Bayreuth, Germany 
• Universite De Versailles Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines, France 
• Politechnika Wrocławska, Poland 
• State Higher Educational Institution Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman, Ukraine 
• Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, Ukraine 
• Kryvyi Rih National University, Ukraine 
• Lutsk National Technical University, Ukraine 
• Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University, Ukraine 
• Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University, Ukraine 
• Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University, Ukraine 
• Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine 
• Union of Rectors of Higher Education Institutions of Ukraine, Ukraine 

Duration 36 months, January 2021 - December 2023

Aim of UTTERLY

To contribute the modernisation of higher education systems in Ukraine by introducing universities centres of teaching excellence for promotion of European educational innovations by professional university teachers’ certification.

UTTERLY Objectives

1 To modernise the formal system of university teachers’ professional development and certification in Ukraine by establishing of 9 independent Centres of Teaching Excellence, as well as creating their network, focusing on enhancing quality of university teaching;

Creating CTEs will provide an opportunity for university teachers to get an alternative, quality and affordable opportunity for certification of excellence and the right to choose a place to achieve it. This option will increase motivation to improve professional qualification. Using of successful European experience in training courses will improve teaching process and provide better education for students. Creating CTEs and alumni network will provide massive and sustainable influence for qualification development in higher education system of Ukraine. Within the framework of the project will improve educational infrastructure (opening 9 CTEs) and raise the educational potential of higher education. Ukrainian CTEs will be supervised by European Universities during active project period for better learning international experience.

2 To introduce the professional university teachers’ certification programs based on European good practices and education innovations for ensuring teaching excellence;

Certification program will be developed joint European and Ukrainian experts. CTEs will provide higher education certification program based on good practices and education innovations. During the program university teachers will be evaluated according to the European standards. After certification database of university teachers will be created. During the project, professional standards for university teachers will be developed and regulation for university teachers attestation will be improved.

3. To develop and pilot a new teaching excellence curriculum based on teaching excellence framework, including courses syllabi and MOOCs which are permeable with education needs of academic communities in Ukraine and resulting in professional certification of university teachers.

Teaching excellence curriculum will respond to the current challenges in higher education and will take into account professional profiles of modern university teacher. Certification will allow to improve excellence in European teaching innovations. The learning process will be richer, more interesting and useful for students. University management will get more proficient staff, retrained in EU. The system of pedagogical skills development will be improved. Launching new certification processes encourage teachers to personal and professional growth.

Contact data:

Mariusz Mazurkiewicz, Project Coordinator

 mariusz.mazurkiewicz@pwr.edu.pl