Projects

COOPACTION (COOperation in Policy making to Augment Co-developed Territorial Impact of social services InnOvatioN) develops integrated solutions with partners from Poland, Italy, Slovenia and Germany to tackle two challenges facing peripheral regions at once: rising care needs among older people and scarce opportunities for young people. Through a bottom-up, multi-level governance process, the project connects policymakers, social enterprises and communities, tests pilot actions in elderly care and youth work, and gathers…

MO-LAB II brings together agricultural teachers, training institutions and digital innovators from across Europe to rethink vocational education in agriculture. Based on an analysis of Agriculture 4.0 requirements, the project updates the competence profile of future farmers – from AI-assisted tools to sustainable practices – and, working closely with practitioners, develops six modular learning units and a freely accessible digital SMART platform for teachers, training institutions and farms. The aim is to keep agricultural training practice-oriented, future-proof and closely tied to real…

NUTSHELL@CE develops solutions to make public transport a genuine alternative to the car in rural and peripheral regions of Central Europe – contributing to the EU goal of cutting transport carbon emissions by 90% by 2050, and to keeping structurally weaker regions from depopulating. The project addresses three key challenges: multimodal access to main public transport corridors (including micro e-mobility such as e-bikes), introducing network-wide clock-face timetables along the lines of the Integraler Taktfahrplan used in…

ThAEP coordinates the Thuringia-wide Erasmus+ mobility consortium "MobiT(h)ür – Mobility without Borders", bringing together eight organisations based in Thuringia. Together with partner organisations from business, education and agriculture, international vocational mobilities are prepared and delivered for learners, apprentices, professionals, and teaching and training staff – aiming to mobilise at least 50 participants each year and to grow the international partner network by at least three new institutions annually. A…

PRO-DIGIT responded to a key lesson from the Covid-19 pandemic: distance learning and homeschooling do not succeed through technical infrastructure alone, but above all through teachers' and learners' readiness and ability to use digital technologies confidently in healthcare vocational education – a concern also underlined by the European Skills Agenda and the EU education ministers' Osnabrück Declaration. Together with partners from several European education systems, the project developed three practice-oriented…

MEDIC was a strategic partnership in medical education, focused on innovative educational content and stronger labour-market relevance. Against the backdrop of an ageing population and rising care needs across Europe, the project developed a competence profile for the "4.0 nurse" – covering digitisation, robotics, telecare/telenursing and environmental protection in the care process – and compared it with the European standard profile (HCEU matrix). This resulted in modern, practice-oriented learning formats (webinars,…

MO-LAB focused on modernising vocational education in agriculture, with sustainable, future-oriented training models and closer alignment of vocational qualifications with technological, ecological and economic change in the sector. The project brought together partners from three very differently structured regions: Thuringia, with its comparatively large farms, Małopolska (Lesser Poland), with predominantly small-scale farms, and Estonia, with a high degree of digitalisation and broad acceptance of digital tools. Over an…

SALUTE4CE (SmALl Green Spots in FUncTional Urban ArEas for Central Europe) examined how upgrading small green spaces can improve ecosystem services across a city as a whole. The concept of Urban Environmental Acupuncture (UEA) was implemented at pilot sites in Erfurt, Weimar, Jena and Apolda.

MAPA (Modern Labour Market and Nursing Education Exchange) promoted the transnational exchange of knowledge, experience and best-practice examples on practice-oriented, labour-market-relevant training content in nursing. The focus was on curricula for elderly-care and general nursing professions in Germany, nursing assistant professions in Austria, and nursing education in Poland – set against the backdrop of ongoing nursing care reforms in all three countries. By comparing the status quo and discussing the transferability…