Projekt BOOST Bringing Opportunities and Organizational Success to Small Local Universities in Ukraine

Project name: Bringing Opportunities and Organizational Success to Small Local Universities in Ukraine / BOOST

Grant holder: Narva College of the University of Tartu, Estonia
Project time: Erasmus+ CBHE
Project number: 101083203
Project lifetime: 1 March 2023 – 28 February 2025
Grant amount: 399 997 EUR 
Project website: https://boost.mspu.edu.ua/ 
Target groups: university teachers and students

Team members from University of Applied Sciences in Elblag: Jerzy Buriak - project manager, Dorota Żarek, Iwona Dwojacka, Robert Fidytek, Leszek Grzybek

Partner institutions:

• Narva College of the University of Tartu, Estonia (Coordinator)
• University of Primorska, Slovenia
• University of Applied Sciences, Poland
• Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, Ukraine
• Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Ukraine
• Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University, Ukraine
• Izmail State University of Humanities, Ukraine
• Kremenets Taras Shevchenko Regional Academy of Humanities and Pedagogy, Ukraine
• Mukachevo State University, Ukraine
• Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (Associated partner)

Situated in remote towns, local Ukrainian universities are often overlooked by European partners. BOOST supports five Ukrainian first-comers in their aspiration to join the European educational space and establish contacts with EU peers. The EU partners will share their experience and help their Ukrainian partners develop technical, digital, learning, community, and international capacity. Representatives from Ukraine with limited English skills will be offered learning opportunities in Russian and Ukrainian. Thus, BOOST will embrace underprivileged monolingual participants. The project encompasses 3 study trips to EU universities for 54 people. Nine training courses for 411 participants will enhance the Ukrainian partners' administrative and teaching skills. The project will promote student-centred blended learning and it facilitate the launch of a new compulsory course for 1240 students and an update of 62 courses for 1150 students. Consequently, these courses will improve students’ skills and employability.  BOOST’s outputs include reports on university IT and tech development, an update of their internationalization strategy considering the first international experience, and the design of a roadmap of support for remote universities.

Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.