Adaptive learning environment for competence in economic and societal impacts of local weather, air quality and climate – ECOIMPACT

Erasmus+ Programme. KEY ACTION 2: COOPERATION FOR INNOVATION AND THE EXCHANGE OF GOOD PRACTICES (CAPACITY BUILDING IN THE FIELD OF HIGHER EDUCATION)

Project duration: 15.10.2015-14.09.2019

Grant coordinator: University of Helsinki (Finland).

The project aims at building capacity at universities in Ukraine and Russia for improving the educational level of society in the area of local weather, air quality and climate change impacts on modern life towards more resilient social and economic development.

Specific objectives:

  • To develop educational content for the learning environment on economic and societal impacts of local weather, air quality and climate targeted at university students, hydrometeorology professionals, and managers at weather-sensitive enterprises and public bodies
  • To develop hardware and software components of the learning environment and integrate them with educational content
  • To test the integrated learning environment in a university, professional update, and sectoral settings
  • To design a commercialisation strategy for the adaptive integrated learning environment system

Partners:  Agricultural University – Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Stredoeuropska vysoka skola v Skalici (Slovakia), Kherson State Agricultural University, Odessa State Environmental University, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine), Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Advanced Training Institute (Zheleznodorozhny, RF)

Project web-sites: http://www.atm.helsinki.fi/ecoimpact/ , http://e-impact.net/en/ , http://osenu.e-impact.net/ , http://ksau.e-impact.net/, https://ecoimpact-ple.com/