The Center of Teaching and Learning and It at UNAK gets 400.00 EUR grant from Erasmus+

The grant is the highest amount in its category
The Center of Teaching and Learning and It at UNAK gets 400.00 EUR grant from Erasmus+

The cooperation project CUTIE - Competences for Universities using Technology in education and Institutional Empowerment is financed by Erasmus+ program KA220-HED - Cooperation partnerships in higher education. The project got a 400.00 EUR grant from the Erasmus+. The grant is the highest amount in its category and the application got a total score of 94 out of 100.

The project is coordinated by Helena Sigurðardóttir Educational developer and E-learning specialist at The Centre of Teaching and Learning and IT at UNAK. The project partners are six European universities and one tech company. The project is built on results from a former Erasmus+ project called CUTE which ended at the beginning of 2023. In that project, the partners made a platform to support the journey to design an institutional strategy to improve digital competencies for university teaching.

The CUTIE project aims to develop methodologies and materials to improve and enhance Digital Teaching Competences (DIGCOMPEDU) in Higher Education Institutions.

CUTIE supports digital transformation in the University and aims to increase the capacity and readiness of our institutions to manage an effective shift towards digital education by increasing the power of their members to make decisions and contribute to the processes associated with it.

Project partners: University of Akureyri (Iceland) – coordinator, University of Copenhagen (Denmark), University of Galway (Ireland), AGH University of Science and Technology Krakow (Poland), University of Zagreb (Croatia) and University of Murcia, as well as the company Global Training Network Solutions GmbH (Austria).

The Center is proud to have received the grant and hopes that working on the project will influence the development of the digital competencies of the staff at the University of Akureyri.