Religious and cultural diversity are today more than ever a critical and political challenge as the recent emergencies related to geo-political and economical global transformations clearly show. European countries are concerned by a big immigration flow that demands an educational effort in order to foster the mutual understanding and integration.

Within the scope of European policies and to combat educational disadvantages for migrant children, numerous actions have been taken to improve the position of migrant children in education. In secondary education the emphasis lies on diversification of the offered teaching methods and extra guidance of the pupils. Some schools in Europe have set up measures to increase the continuity of the educational support in terms of migrant pupil inclusion and orientation.

VALS will establish sustainable methods and processes to build knowledge partnerships between Higher Education (HE) and companies to collaborate on resolving authentic business problems through open innovation mediated by the use of Open Source Software (OSS). OSS provides the means whereby HE institutions, students, businesses and foundations can all collaborate to resolve authentic business problems. Not only does OSS provide the necessary shared infrastructure and collaborative practice, the foundations which manage the software are also hubs which channel the operational challenges of their users through to the people who can solve them.

Renewal of 2011-1-PT1-ERA10-08645, 2012-1-PT1-ERA10-12523.

To provide the development of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial culture across borders, in order to promote self-employment of finalists and/or new graduate students, the Entrepreneurship Education for European Students Intensive Programme (E3SIP) intends to offer, through a comparative, innovative and interdisciplinary approach, the demanded international knowledge and multicultural competences.

The project reacts to the growing importance of mass-medial commercial ways of dealing with history in public space that in many respects does not comply with the EU standards for history teaching. However, mass media verifiably influence the historical perception of pupils, and therefore they constitute an important factor in history teaching. Thus arises an irrefutable demand in history and civic education for a combination of intercultural and media-critical competences in studying history multi-perspectively. Following in the footsteps of successful EU projects dealing with “European History Crossroads” (shared historical topics in Europe that point out the diversity of national historical viewpoints) EHISTO,

Renewal of 2011-1-PT1-ERA10-08645.

To provide the development of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial culture across borders, in order to promote self-employment of finalists and/or new graduate students, the Entrepreneurship Education for European Students Intensive Programme (E3SIP) intends to offer, through a comparative, innovative and interdisciplinary approach, the demanded international knowledge and multicultural competences.

The evolution of new technology and its increasing use, has for some years been making the existence of informal learning more and more transparent, especially among young and older adults in both Higher Education and workplace contexts. However, the nature of formal and non-formal, course-based, approaches to learning has made it hard to accommodate these informal processes satisfactorily, and although technology bring us near to the solution, it has not yet achieved.