Project Title: OUTech@KreativEU: competence development, mobility, and synergy within a European university
Funding amount: PLN 883,671.50
Project implementation period: 01.10.2025 – 31.05.2027
The OUTech@KreativEU project focuses on strengthening the internationalisation of the Opole University of Technology through the development of cooperation within the KreativEU alliance, in line with the assumptions of the European Universities Initiative. The project addresses the strategic priorities of the NAWA programme, focusing on:
- Developing sustainable academic partnerships across Europe.
- Increasing the institutional capacity of the university for international cooperation.
- Enhancing the quality of education through the implementation of innovative teaching solutions.
The project consists of 10 tasks complementary to the Erasmus+ programme, based on best practices of established European universities and aligned with the programme’s specific objectives.
Specific objectives resulting from the implementation of individual tasks include:
- Strengthening the internationalisation of academic staff, administrative staff, students, and doctoral candidates through mobility and exchange of experience, supporting the creation of sustainable relationships and partnerships within the KreativEU consortium through a European network of knowledge creation and design, based on the four missions of higher education (education, research, innovation, and service to society).
- Developing teaching and scientific cooperation within the KreativEU network, and increasing the visibility of the educational and scientific achievements of the university and its partners on the international stage through the organisation of conferences and hybrid events.
- Promoting the scientific potential of the Opole University of Technology and its KreativEU partner universities, and creating conditions for the development of international teaching/scientific cooperation networks that will result in new joint projects in the future.
- Increasing transparency and quality of international education through the implementation of micro-credential and double-degree procedures, supporting the recognition of European learning outcomes and international mobility (visiting professors employment procedure), promoting a competitive and attractive educational model that strengthens European cohesion by supporting its diversity through a dedicated visiting professor procedure.
- Developing the university’s educational offer by introducing modern courses confirmed with micro-credentials, which represent an important element of lifelong learning in the European market, supporting adaptive approaches to labour market needs and expectations.
- Raising awareness and competences related to accessibility of European cultural and natural heritage for people with special needs.
- Promoting multiculturalism and managing the image of an international university that fosters openness, tolerance, and intercultural integration in the socio-economic environment of the Opole University of Technology; disseminating and utilising scientific outcomes (e.g., through increased participation of visiting professors in the teaching process), as well as all activities implemented within the KreativEU network.
Tasks implemented within the project:
- OUTech Quality of Education – Development of procedures supporting international education
- OUTech Visiting Professors Procedure – Development of procedures supporting the employment of visiting professors and their integration into the university’s operational structures
- Development of modern teaching materials
- OUTechNET – mobility of academic teachers
- OUTechADMIN – mobility of administrative staff
- OUTechMOBILE – mobility of students and doctoral candidates
- Let’s talk about accessibility – international scientific seminar “Walking Seminar” on accessibility and universal design
- Scientific conference “Ecoculture as a lifestyle – health, food and well-being”
- Researchers’ Fair “Incubating Kreative Partnerships”
- OUTech OUTside – Promotion of the university and educational offer at the EAIE 2026 International Education Fair
