Project meeting in Málaga (Spain)
On November 28, 2023, a new meeting of the international partners of the Erasmus + project FTDCHE - Fostering the Transversal Digital Competences in Higher Education - took place at the University of Malaga (Spain).
Its School of Engineering and Computer Science hosted researchers from the University of Applied Sciences of Leuven-Limburg (Belgium), the University of Primorska (Slovenia), the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (Romania) and Šiaulių valstybinė kolegija / Higher Education Institution (Lithuania). It is the second face-to-face meeting held by the project members since FTDCHE began its journey last December.
The FTDCHE project focuses on the creation of an advanced platform for training in digital skills in higher education: Sollertia. On this occasion, partners discussed relevant aspects related to the dissemination of the project through its website and, especially, through the Sollertia Learning Management System, which already has a sample of content for each of the five courses it integrates. The first lessons can be consulted without prior registration and provide the general outline that will be followed in the remaining 11 topics.
Likewise, the partners established control mechanisms over the quality of translations into the official languages of each member country to facilitate dissemination among students who have not mastered the English language. In this sense, Sollertia constitutes a platform completely integrated with each of the partners’ languages, where the study contents and the evaluation and self-assessment tests are fully translated.
The possibilities of teaching an official course were also discussed from the academic-administrative perspectives of each partner. The final objective is to provide students with the possibility of receiving official accreditation for the digital competencies taught through Sollertia (equivalent to 10 ECTS). The initial proposal is to hold the course during the spring semester of 2025.
Finally, the partners agreed to hold the next Transnational Project Meeting in Hasselt, Belgium, in April 2024 under the auspices of the University Colleges of Leuven-Limburg (UCLL).
