The project will offer innovative approaches to higher education through interdisciplinarity in the development of HEI curricula in Southeast Europe. This represents an innovation which will improve the quality of HE in the region, it will contribute to opening up and innovating in the education process. InnEd will produce four curricula intersecting philosophy, linguistics, liberal arts, cognitive sciences and technology through focusing on research subjects such as post-humanism, gender, environmental studies. The project will also promote the value and perspectives of the interdisciplinary approach in higher education. The introduction of interdisciplinary curricula will strengthen the overall quality and relevance of students' knowledge, creativity, and competencies towards a more holistic education, and will enhance their transversal skills and therefore their employability. Enhancing innovative research skills increases employability of graduates in the humanities enabling them to engage in the dynamically changing European economy based on research and innovation, in particular at the intersecting realms of STEM and humanities. Knowledge based and research oriented economy is one of the countries reform priorities supported by the IPA II mechanism. Thus this project seeks to raise students' employability by bringing closer humanities and hard sciences and produced data. The center of intersections are the topics of technological and cybernetic development and issues of subjectivity, post-humanism, etc., studied according to the model of liberal arts. That model is updated through the framework of intersectionality and interdisciplinarity. The dissemination and sustainability strategy will rely mainly on digital media for exchange of best practices based on the curricula and the promotion of the model of research centered teaching and the curricula produced as outcome from the project.
The project produced and disseminated four interdisciplinary curricula as innovative approaches to higher education in Southeast Europe. The curricula produced in the InnEd project are intersecting philosophy, linguistics, liberal arts, cognitive sciences and technology through focusing on research subjects such as post-humanism, gender, environmental studies. The project promoted the value and perspectives of the interdisciplinary approach in higher education through its other activities such as the multiplier event and the two teaching/learning activities in the format of ISP were implemented. Moreover the project also contributed to the policy debate in the North Macedonia ongoing educational reform supporting the interdisciplinary approach in the education. We had engaged the Ministry of Education and Science and the The Fund for Innovations and Technology Development in the debate, which also found its reflection in the overall educational and science and innovation policies. The main strength of the newly produced curricula is the innovative research skills that could be developed which increase employability of graduates in the humanities enabling them to engage in the dynamically changing European economy based on research and innovation, in particular at the intersecting realms of STEM and humanities. Knowledge based and research oriented economy is one even more in post-pandemic recovery recognized as EU priority. The project engaged with more than 300 participants in different positions HE teachers, students and policy makers from the partner institutions but also from other relevant national and international institutions as well. The project was successfully implemented, it already made impact into the teaching approach in the partner organizations, initiated other collaborations and serves as baseline for other initiatives for interdisciplinary education such as other projects, joint degree process as well as process of accreditation of one of the curricula for ISSHS, the project leading organization.