The D-PBL project aimed to achieve several key objectives by integrating digital teaching-learning (EAD) with project-based learning (PBL) in a multinational context. Core achievements were: 1. Enhance Digital Competencies: Improve the digital skills of both students and lecturers, ensuring they are equipped to work effectively in a digital, globalized environment; 2. Real-World Application: Provide students with real-world business problems to solve, enhancing their technical and transversal skills, and preparing them for the job market; 3. International Collaboration: Foster international teamwork by creating multinational student groups that collaborate on projects using digital technologies, promoting virtual mobility and Exchange; 4. Innovative Teaching Methods: Train lecturers in blended digital and pedagogic competences, enabling them to adopt innovative teaching methodologies that integrate PBL and EAD; 5. Sustainable Educational Models: Develop and pilot a model that contributes to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), focusing on employability, interdisciplinary teamwork, and virtual environments; 6. Inclusivity and Accessibility: Offer disadvantaged students and those already employed the opportunity to engage.
The project addressed key higher education needs: 1) bridging the digital competency gap, as many lecturers (and students!) lack experience using digital tools for collaborative, project-based work; 2) enhancing employability skills in students like problem-solving, critical thinking, and teamwork; 3) adapting educational spaces for active learning in general and digital Project-Based Learning (PBL) specifically, creating purpose-built D-PBL cells; 4) training educators in digital teaching methods; and 5) promoting inclusion by enabling disadvantaged students (and even lecturers) and those unable to participate in physical mobility. The D-PBL project responded by developing structured methodologies, training resources, and innovative learning environments to support digital PBL in HEIs.