The opportunity to make relevant contribution to the development of European countries is an integrated part of the internationalization strategy assumed by the EU HEIs involved in this project.The Council Conclusions on ET2020 stress the need to strengthen education by introducing measures to develop transversal skills by optimized ICT-supported teaching and learning. Our project is a response to the New Skills Agenda for Europe stressing the challenges of skills acquisition for people, including innovation and entrepreneurship, digital competences, critical thinking and learning to learn. The priorities of Moldova (targeted country) require certain changes at institutions levels toward modernizing curricula by new learning and teaching tools, modern pedagogical approaches and methodologies. The project solution is an effective support for modernization of Business and Administration curricula that translates into helpful, measurable and scalable development results for students, teachers, and other relevant stakeholders from Moldova, who are the ultimate beneficiaries of this initiative. It proposes an innovative digital-based learning mechanism that enrich teaching methods with new pedagogical approaches, improve e-education, and support personalized learning in the attempt to equip master students and teaching staff from Moldova partners with the right mix of entrepreneurial and digital skills, by an active involvement of local enterprises, professional associations, civil society and governmental entities.The project envisages to modernize and internationalize Business and Administration master curricula of Moldova partners by new pedagogical approaches in teaching and learning future entrepreneurs and business developers, test and adjust the curricula by exposing students and teachers to all phases of entrepreneurship: pre-start, start-up, and growth, with the aid of ICT-practices and to finally induce beneficial changes at each institution level.
Our project addressed one of the key priorities of targeted country (Republic of Moldova) with particular regard to new learning and teaching tools, modern pedagogical approaches and methodologies which facilitated certain changes at partners’ institutions levels toward modernizing master curricula in Business & Administration (B&A). Given the positive impact on direct TGs ( local master students, teachers and academics, business and public bodies, and civil society sector), our project tackled the needs of new skills and competences development, changed minds and mentalities towards greater productivity and a responsible climate in the partner country.The project surveyed entrepreneurship and digital learning needs of a wide range of local stakeholders and equipped local teachers and students with the right mixt of entrepreneurial and digital skills with the aid of 30 new and/or upgraded courses/disciplines in B&A; innovative teaching and learning pedagogies, teachers trainings, career orientation services and development measures, and digital modules.The project fulfilled its wider objective guaranteed by the national accreditation decisions of modernized master programmes in B&A for each MD HEIs, and addressed the needs of students and teachers in B&A area from a wide geographical coverage from the Northern, the Central and the Southern parts of MD, as per following composition:•Involving local stakeholders (67 HE teachers, 203 students, 112 employers) in collecting relevant needs and better adapting the master curricula in B&A. •Upgrading facilities of 5 (five) MD universities that enabled a better exploitation of local ICT potential, online and blended courses, new pedagogical approaches for teaching and learning, and collaborative work ICT-based. •Training and upgrading entrepreneurial and innovation skills, and abilities for real and virtual communication for 60 teaching staff from MD universities. •Exposing 1661 MD master students to the suite of 30 new and upgraded courses in B&A (168 ECTS) covering all phases of entrepreneurial process (pre-start, start-up, and growth), with enriched teaching methods and new pedagogical approaches. •Informing 816 local beneficiaries about the opportunities of entrepreneurial education offers, by which 623 master students and 193 local teachers better aware of the benefits of innovative teaching and learning, and increased their positive attitudes for European projects. •Career guidance for 484 master students who received support from teachers and local business representatives, by which 311 received practical solutions for their professional careers; 247 local representatives were involved in the flow of career orientation sessions and 210 local teachers/academics have increased their capacity for mentoring students for entrepreneurial and business careers. •Engaging 537 local participants from Partner country (students, teachers, private enterprise, professional associations, civil society organizations, public entities) in spreading good practices and cooperation opportunities in entrepreneurship and digital education; by which 367 master students and 98 local teachers/academics with enhanced understanding of new approach in doing business in Moldova Partner country and 72 local business representatives with reinforced capacity of take-up an entrepreneurial culture in local economy. All of these fostered new forms of synergies and exchanges across disciplines through digital learning, increased the critical mass of local beneficiaries skilled in entrepreneurship and digital competences, changed minds and mentalities, and internationalized master program curricula in Business & Administration (B&A).