“Ocean energy, especially wave energy, can contribute to achieving European renewable energy expansion targets by diversifying usable (marine) renewable energy sources. However, ocean energy is still relatively far from commercial operation and faces technical and economic challenges. The COIN project aims to find solutions to these challenges.”
The European Commission has announced that it will award nearly 3 million Euros to a consortium of 13 universities and arts organizations across Europe and the South Pacific, to advance cultural democracy. The project is entitled “Intercultural and Transcultural Competence Through Collaborative Cultural Expression” (INTRACOMP), and will develop global, regional and national educational frameworks and policy directives for arts and culture.
In the project ‘Gender Diversity in Information Science: Challenges in Higher Education’ (GEDIS), the team is investigating gender aspects in library and information science degree programmes. It is looking at teaching materials, curricula and academic citation practices. Initial results show that the gender perspective is hardly addressed in curricula. An analysis of the reading lists used by all partners in their teaching clearly shows that women are severely underrepresented in the works cited.
The project ‘Moving Europe – Negotiating legacies of migration at the museum’ brings together young people, museum staff, academics and representatives of migrant NGOs from across Europe. They take a nuanced approach to examining experiences and backgrounds of migration and its effects. The aim is to raise awareness of the complexity of migration.
EduAId (Transforming Education with AI Micro-credentials for Educators, Teachers, and School Heads) aims to foster change in the educational landscape by integrating AI-related tools and practices through a micro-credentials approach, targeting teachers, school heads, and educators.
Students from all disciplines are given the opportunity to present their research findings in the five national parliaments of cooperation partners and in the European Parliament in Brussels. This creates a strong European network for student research at an institutional and individual level.