HED-RES-EU consortium shares joint mission and vision statement to cooperate and work within different environment, in different languages, and across borders, sectors and academic disciplines, and to positively contribute to the sustainable development and green way of learning and living. Our target achievements refer to: changing and complement of the existing educational programs with appropriate knowledge and skills according to business practice and community needs; designing and organizing a tailor-made advanced, accessible and flexible teaching-learning material, and in particular targeting renewable energy resources; implementing modern teaching methods like learning by doing, gamification, flipped classroom, teaching masters and others to reach an active learning; involving into the project qualified academic staff dedicated to their work. HED-RES-EU builds upon the changing emphasis of the environment to the overall learning process by: Introducing innovative educational methods – problem centered, practical oriented and experimental; smart learning using AI techniques; developing new training materials linked to local environment and complementary to the existing research and integrating topics, and sharing experience.
HED-RES-EU vision is to move towards sustainability, which requires fundamental shift and incremental steps in education, training and learning process, and research to support this process with knowledge and innovation. The ultimate long-term objective supported under the project is to turn academia into a rapidly progressing educational and research centers targeted at renewable green energy, bioeconomy and sustainability (incl. but not limited to climate, agrifood safety, urban farming (controlled environment agriculture, waste valorization into bioproducts, sustainable production practice), with a pool of competent and highly competitive experts who are responsive to socio-economic regional and European development needs and capable of stimulating innovation and boosting sustainable growth of the local economy. The immediate results of the talent acquisition and academic excellence at the partners involved have direct impact and synergies in our ecosystems, bouncing to the diversity of stakeholders therein and empowering them as co-creators of innovative products, services and business models in the domain of bio economy and sustainability.