In September 2019 Mykolas Romeris University in cooperation with 5 partner Universities from Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland and Austria has started to implement Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project which aims to elaborate different study and teaching materials for development of interdisciplinary and soft skills of students.
Nowadays communication, teamwork, cooperation conflict management – so called soft skills – are very important for any professional in any field. Experience shows that very often students lack those interdisciplinary skills. Only rarely are there specific courses tackling these topics and skills. Also, there is a lack of training materials, which academics can use in the study process to teach those skills to students.
This Erasmus+ project will focus on ability of students to cooperate for team work, set professional and academic goals by means of modern coaching, time management skills and efficient planning, multicultural communication and conflict diagnostics as well as conflict management. These skills are crucial for to be able to efficiently study in universities of the modern world.
Curriculums of universities do not offer separate courses to tackle these areas. Moreover these skills are required not only during academic studies, but even after graduation to be prepared for professional life challenges. Therefore a goal is set to create inter-faculty study materials for students from Law, Business, Communication and other Social science faculties in order to improve these skills and so university teachers could widely access such study materials.
The main aim of the project is to develop and implement innovative practices – elaboration of interdisciplinary study materials and tools (including mobile application) for students and teachers of different faculties.
The main results will be video lectures, study materials, mobile phone application for daily studies, reading materials and self-study materials. In the framework of the project, partners will also train the students and trainers.
The first project meeting took place October 9th, 2019 in Riga's Turiba University.
Duration of the project: 36 months (01.09.2019.-30.08.2022.)
The project is implemented with the support of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Programme. Project Number: 2019-1-LV01-KA203-060423.
Project coordinator at MRU is Prof. Dr. Agnė Tvaronavičienė, a.tvaronaviciene@mruni.eu
Project partners are:
TURIBA UNIVERSITY, Latvia (coordinator)
MYKOLAS ROMERIS UNIVERSITY, Lithuania
UNIVERSITY OF GENOVA, Italy
UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ, Austria
JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY, Poland
NETHERLANDS BUSINESS ACADEMY, Netherland