The first face-to-face meeting of the Eurydice Project partners since the project started in the beginning of 2020 took place in September 2022. The meetings started at CUT 26-27 September 2022, followed by TUT on 28 September at the Pretoria campus. The meeting was held at the Dean’s office boardroom. The Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, the Head of Intern...
In its ongoing efforts to improve students’ employability in the field of renewable energies, the Eurydice project partners held their first face-to-face meeting at the Bloemfontein campus of the Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT) from 26 to 27 September 2022. As the new normal dictates, this two-day gathering adopted a hybrid format whereby some project members who could not tra...
Driven by its overarching aim to increase students’ employability in the field of renewable energies by increasing collaborations between universities and the industry, the Eurydice project participated in an exhibition at the Solar Show Africa, from 23 – 24 August 2022 at the Sandton Convention Center. Representing the Eurydice were two delegates from the Central University of Technology, Fre...
After a virtual workshop on 26 November 2021, multiple stakeholders in the Eurydice consortium agreed that the success of the Eurydice project relies on the participation of students from different partner institutions. Therefore, from the year 2022 there will be renewable energy competitions for students within the partner institutions. So, to fulfill its mandate, the Eurydice Consortium invit...
The UNITO conference “Universities of Tomorrow: Global, Interdisciplinary, Digitized, Sustainable 2021” was organized by the HTWG Konstanz - University of Applied Sciences to discuss the complex social, economic, and environmental issues of today and the challenges for universities. Authors and participants from all over the world and across all academic disciplines and stakeholders followed t...
Driven by its overarching aim to increase students’ employability in the field of renewable energies by increasing collaborations between universities and the industry, the Eurydice project delivered a workshop on 26 November 2021. The workshop focused on identifying challenges that are faced by industries in the renewable energy space whilst also proposing projects in which students from partne...
Higher education institutions worldwide have faced an unforeseeable crisis with the spread of COVID-19. The pandemic has changed the basic conditions of the main pillar of international higher education projects and exchange, namely mobility. This crisis has led to a paradigm shift in international projects. More virtual meetings had to be established as a method of exchange instead of travelling....
The new Erasmus programme 2021-2027 has been launched. The programme’s budget is €26.2 billion, compared with €14.7 billion for 2014-2020. With this increased budget, Erasmus+ will be more inclusive, more digital, and more green. Read more:
The project and best practice ideas about sustainability have been introduced within the framework of the Exchange Forum for Capacity Building projects organized by the National Agency DAAD. German project coordinators and partners participated the meeting and used this platform for exchanging ideas and experiences. Two representatives of Ulm University of Applied Sciences held a keynote speech ab...
Fachhhoschule Technikum Wien University of Applied Sciences organized a virtual International Week in January 2021: “The 21st Century Engineer - On Integrating Hard and Soft Skills Into Curricula”. The project EURYDICE has been presented in one of the sessions: “Energy needs capacity – Capacity building in South Africa”. International Weeks can be used for dissemination of the proj...