Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Pierpaolo Magliocca
Administrative Coordinator: Dott. Giulio Esposito
Project duration: 01/12/2022 – 30/11/2025
Number of partners: 6 (Beneficiary: University of Foggia, Biznesa Makslas Un Technologiju Augstskola RISEBA, Institute of Social and Economic Initiatives, Kyiv National University Of Technologies And Design, Mingachevir State University, Kyiv Education, Training And Youth Centre)
Funding: This project is funded under the Erasmus+ Key Action 2: Cooperation among organisations and institutions.
Project Number: ERASMUS-EDU-2021-VIRT-EXCH-NDICI
The VEHUB4YOU project focuses on business knowledge’s transfer from EU to young people of Eastern partners countries (13 to 30 years) by virtual exchanges technologies. As part of Goal 9 EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027 “Space and participation for all” consortium members will undertake common efforts for organizing a network of international virtual business hubs and teaching of doing business for high school pupils, college students and university students of both economic and non-economic specialties by creating VIRTUAL YOUTH BUSSINES HUBS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK which includes 60 virtual international business hubs atschools, universities and rural libraries in Ukraine and Azerbaijan.
The VEHUB4YOU project is expected improve the quality of business education by providing access to modern European education; at the organizational level promoting entrepreneurial learning and on the level of individual project participants is expected to get the skills of planning for a business, marketing the products and obtaining the instruments to create their own business. It is expected upgrading school, college and university educational programs in accordance with new trends on virtual learning and raising the efficiency of virtual education.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
The objectives of VEHUB4YOU are in line with the main objective of the Erasmus+ Program, namely:
- encouraging intercultural dialogue with third countries not related to the Program through online interactions between people based on digital technologies;
- promoting different types of virtual exchanges as a complement to Erasmus+ physical mobility, which will allow more young people to benefit from intercultural and international experiences;
- promoting the development of digital and soft skills of students, young people and youth workers, including foreign language practice and teamwork, in particular to increase employment;
- strengthening the youth dimension in the EU's relations with third countries.
The project is planned to involve schoolchildren, lyceums, teachers of schools and lyceums, college students, universities, university professors, young people who do not study in higher education and business representatives. The promotion of VEHUB4YOU, the realization of the selected goals is related to the achievement of the goal and objectives of the Erasmus+ Program. Thus, the Action is a step towards achieving the overall goals set by the Program to improve and modernize education, training and youth systems. The action develops the Erasmus+ Program, which, in turn, supports the promising idea of expanding the European educational area beyond its borders, promoting existing EU instruments and initiatives. It also supports the implementation of EU international policy.
Vieste 16-20 June 2023
The University of Foggia continue to work on the internationalisation and digitalisation of higher education together with Ukrainian, Latvian, Azerbaijani and Italian universities.
On June 16-20, Assoc. Prof. Pierpaolo Magliocca – Scientific Coordinator, Assoc. Prof. Olesia Benchak, Oleksandra Tverezovska, Giulio Esposito – head of the international office and Administrative Coordinator – participated in the first
workshop “Innovations in Virtual Exchange: Facilitator Training and Organization of Virtual Exchanges” was held within the Virtual Youth Business Hubs Intenational Network project that was held in Italy - Vieste (Fg).
The VEHUB4YOU project focuses on business knowledge’s transfer from EU to young people of Eastern partners countries (13 to 30 years) by virtual exchanges technologies. As part of Goal 9 EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027 “Space
and participation for all” consortium members will undertake common efforts for organizing a network of international virtual business hubs and teaching of doing business for high school pupils, college students and university students of both economic and non-economic specialties by creating VIRTUAL YOUTH BUSINESS HUBS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK which includes 60 virtual international business hubs at schools, universities and rural libraries in Ukraine and
Azerbaijan. European universities, with the help of universities and youth organizations in Ukraine and Azerbaijan, will share their business courses and experience of teachers with the youth of the Eastern Partnership countries. As a
result, 2500 representatives from 60 hubs and 250 facilitators from Eastern partners countries will take part in the project, 220 participants from other specified regions will be involved as well (Southern Neighborhood and Sub Saharan Africa).
