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Project description

Boosting cross-sectoral talent circulation and academia-business collaboration

The importance of seamless and accessible education was highlighted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. While technologies capable of meeting these challenges already exist, further adaptation is required to modernise education. Unfortunately, the collaboration between academia and the rapidly developing Educational Technology Sector (EdTech) has been rather limited. In this context, the EU-funded EdTech Talents project aims to strengthen collaboration between academia and non-academic entities in Estonia, Hungary, and Serbia. By facilitating knowledge transfer between widening and advanced countries, it will foster continuous innovation, idea exchange, and impactful educational solutions. The project aligns with the ERA Policy Agenda and ERA Talents call for cross-sectoral talent circulation and academia-business collaboration, with a particular focus on widening countries.

Objective

The recent COVID-19 era demonstrated the need for seamless education, accessible under most challenging circumstances. It was revealed that while the technologies for facing these challenges exist, more work is needed to adapt these in modern education – a task that requires significant collaborative effort from academia and the rapidly developing Educational Technology Sector (EdTech) in order to involve best practices and validate novel products and services for the real world classroom use. For various reasons, this collaboration has been meagre so far. The goal of the EdTech Talents project is to strengthen academia/non-academia cooperation and reinforce the EdTech innovation ecosystems of Estonia, Hungary and Serbia by conducting a long-term knowledge transfer process for (a) the researchers and their support staff of these widening countries to learn from the EdTech spin-offs and consulting companies of Austria, Germany and Spain; and (b) the researchers of these advanced countries to share their relevant intellectual capital with the EdTech start-ups of these widening countries. During this process, knowledge transfer is supported via dedicated mentoring and training that aim at establishing continuous and more impactful flow of innovation, ideas, knowledge, know-how and relevant services among all involved, corresponding with the scope of ERA Policy Agenda and ERA Talents call for cross-sectoral talent circulation and academia-business collaboration, with the focus on widening countries.

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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions

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(opens in new window) HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-03

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Coordinator

TALLINN UNIVERSITY
Net EU contribution

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€ 1 105 955,00
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Narva Road 25
10120 Tallinn
Estonia

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Region
Eesti Eesti Põhja-Eesti
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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€ 1 105 955,00

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