The Erasmus+ project in the program area "Capacity Building for Higher Education" entitled "UXIship - Accelerating the Foundation Development Skills of ICT Students through Interdisciplinary Modular Courses in Higher Education Curricula" re-launched in early March 2021.
Due to the outbreak of the pandemic in early 2020 and the ongoing lockdown by COVID-19 worldwide, the project partners were not able to continue the international project launched in November 2019 after the only physical kick-off conference so far in early December 2019 in St. Petersburg (Russia). For this reason, the UXiship project has also been extended for one year and is thus scheduled to end on November 14, 2023, following approval by the Executive Agency for Education, Audiovisual and Culture from Brussels (the executing agency of the Erasmus+ program).
For this reason, the project partners have met online on March 12, 2021 to find the way to resume the project implementation and to define concrete roadmaps. In the coming weeks, the EU partner universities (Tallinn University of Technology, EKA Riga University of Applied Sciences, and Wismar University of Applied Sciences) will conduct online trainings on design thinking, interdisciplinary innovation development, cross-sectoral collaboration, business creation, and more. conducted at partner universities in Kazakhstan (Kostanay Baytursynov State University, Almaty Management University and Caspian State University) and Russia (Kazan National Technical Research University, Rostov State Economic University, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University).