Results
EPOS Intellectual Outputs
EPOS Intellectual Outputs included: Report of the analysis of needs of the labour market in organic sector (O1); Presentation about innovative teaching tools/methods (O2); E-learning platform (O3), Educational materials for e-learning (O4), curriculum of the Intensive Study Programme (O5), Educational materials for Intensive Study Programme (O6), Programme of Students Internships/Problem Solving Projects (O7), Analysis of needs for improvement – elearning & Intensive Study Programme (O9), Analysis of needs for improvements – Students Internships (feedback from students & stakeholders) (O10-O11), Summary analysis of needs for improvements & Improved programmes of the educational activities (O12), Curriculum to be implemented in the study programmes of partner universities (O13), Presentations for a conference ‚Innovative Education towards the Needs of the Labour Market’ (O14).
Other tangible results of the project
A manuscript summarising results of the analysis of needs of the labour market in European organic sector (prepared; not published yet); Project website, Project Facebook profile (https://www.facebook.com/eposproject/); Reports from Transnational Meetings; Leaflet & on-line post about the planned educational activities; Flyer about the EPOS project; Students’ reports of the needs of stakeholders and strategies to address the needs; Constructive feedback reports from various activities; Articles about EPOS in newspapers & on-line magazines; Numerous dissemination presentations.
Intangible results of the project
Knowledge and experience of project participants (Educational activities organised within the project allowed students to gain multidisciplinary, quality knowledge, and allowed lecturers to exchange their experience on teaching contents and new curricula approaches); Promotion & spread of innovation in educational methods used within partner universities and beyond; Increased skills of project participants, thus increased chances on the labour market (Participation in the project activities clearly strengthened students’ team working-, communication-, analytical and problem solving skills, ability to adapt to new situations, and entrepreneurship, and built their confidence in communication in English. Knowledge & skills gained during the project gives students’ better position on the labour market. Moreover, the Internships opened interesting cooperation with stakeholders); Gaining valuable experience & building network by the key representatives of universities participating in the project; Increase of the volume of students & staff mobility and improvement of the quality & volume of cooperation between higher education institutions in Europe; Increase of transparency & compatibility between European universities; Improvement of the cooperation between universities & enterprises.