The aim of SEEDS is to establish a community of good practices for distributed courses between partner universities. The SEEDS project was initiated by the partners’ previous activities that helped identify conditions that limited internationalisation in general, for whatever reason. Most of these limitations could be overcome by modernising and transforming methods and procedures for international educational collaboration by adopting an integrated digital approach. During the project, we identified a common core of appropriate digital tools, developed and tested innovative formats or common digital content for online or blended teaching and learning. By involving students, teachers and administrative staff, digital competences in all aspects of university education were developed. To complement the existing tools and methods, the project paid particular attention to the following topics: 1) pedagogical approaches for distributed shared lectures, 2) methods and tools for laboratory exercises that require remote interaction with physical devices, 3) tools and methods for distributed and remote assessment, 4) procedures and tools to ensure access to the developed resources 5) information on the developed resources and feedback
The modernisation and digitalisation of education across Europe, accelerated by the health crisis, are an opportunity to strengthen the HEI of a common European educational area, to integrate an awareness of interculturality into vocational training through an expansion to other know-how and therefore an increase in the attractiveness of this training for employers. We believe that the collaboration and intercultural experiences of students and teachers, based on digital skills and innovative methods for fine internationalisation, are one of the essential components of this common European educational area. The SEEDS project made it possible to share, exchange and experiment with methods and tools to improve digital skills and intercultural experience for higher education. The work was carried out between the four partner universities. The results were used to establish good practice guidelines for relying on digital technology to internationalise university education in Europe. SEEDS has enabled students from the fields of engineering, computer science, robotics and civil engineering, regardless of their social, physical or geographical situation, to acquire intercultural and professional skills with a European dimension.