EU-funded Education Projects
This page provides an overview of EU-funded education projects in which Ghent University is or has been participating. The Ghent University International Relations Office is itself actively involved in a number of these projects. For more information on these particular projects, please refer to the Project Portfolio.
Funded under Erasmus+ (2021-2027)
- AESOP4Food: Action for Education, Spatial Organisation and Planning for Sustainable Food (coordinator: LE:NOTRE Institute)
- AgeWell: Service Design for Wellness and Healthy Ageing (coordinator: University of Tartu)
- Be-In: Be Inclusive: towards inclusion of children with special needs and their parents in ECEC (coordinator: Centre for Innovation in the Early Years (VBJK))
- EDUCATORE: End of Disaster: Undoing Crisis. Active Tutors Open to Reflective Education (coordinator: Maria Grzegorzewska University)
- ePlanet: European Platform for Planetary health in Medical education (coordinator: University Medical Centre Utrecht)
- MORDOR: Mapping and Organizing Research on Dictatorship: Open Access Repository (coordinator: Adam Mickiewicz University)
- RESPO X: Revolution of E-Skills with Participatory Online eXpert system (coordinator: Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School)
- TOMATO: Toolbox for Object-based Methods of Academic Teaching Online (coordinator: University of Strasbourg)
Funded under Erasmus+ (2014-2020)
- Biostimulant Academie (coordinator: AKINAO)
- Building knowledge from local practices: a solution for better care and integration of unaccompanied minors (coordinator: Fondation d'Auteuil)
- CaST: Communities and Students Together (coordinator: The University of Exeter)
- CoCOS: Co-created Courses through Open Source initiatives (coordinator: Arteveldehogeschool)
- Creating Bridges: Creating Bridges - networking (coordinator: Fundacion Yehudi Menuhin España)
- Developing an open online course in European Social Pedagogy (coordinator: Thempra social Pedagogy Community Interest Company)
- EDINA: Education of International Newly Arrived migrant pupils at primary and secondary school level (coordinator: Universiteit Utrecht)
- Educ-ARTE: Building Up Together European Identity (coordinator: Fundacion Menuhin Espana)
- eINFOTED: Electronic International Forum for Teacher Educator Development (coordinator: NTNU)
- EISCAS: Eurasian Insights: Strengthening Central Asian Studies in Europe (coordinator: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu)
- ELLeN: English Language Learning & Neurodiversity (coordinator: Goethe University Frankfurt)
- ENGAGE Europe Engage - Developing a Culture of Civic Engagement through Service-Learning within Higher Education in Europe (coordinator: Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
- Enhancing communication: research to improve communication for people with special needs and development of TIC resources and tools. (coordinator: Universidad de Málaga)
- EPL: European Prescribing License: Preparing future medical doctors in the European Union for safe prescribing (coordinator: Stichint VUMC)
- eQuATIC - Assessing quality of partnerships amongst Higher Education Institutions (coordinator: Universiteit Gent)
- Erasmus Skills (coordinator: Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
- Establishment of Safer Animal Rescue Capacity (coordinator: Aksaray AFAD)
- Euro-LEAN European Lean Enterprise Alliance Network (coordinator: NTNU)
- EurOP²E: European Open Platform for Prescribing Education (coordinator: Stichting VUMC)
- European Plant Breeding College (coordinator: Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais)
- FESC: Framework for Erasmus+ staff competencies (coordinator: Philipps Universitaet Marburg)
- GeoLAND: Digital Educational Geoinformatic Methodologies for Monitoring Landscape (coordinator: Idryma Technologias Kai Erevnas Forth)
- GeoReSim: The Geopolitics of Renewables Simulation (coordinator: University of Stavanger)
- GI-LEARNER: Creating GI Learning Lines in Secondary Education (coordinator: Sint-Lodewijkscollege, Bruges)
- GI-Pedagogy: Innovative Pedagogies for Teaching with Geoinformation (coordinator: St Mary's University Twickenham)
- Hilives: Including and Connecting in Higher Education: networking opportunities for independent lives (coordinator: Universidade de Aveiro)
- INACTIC: International Nursing Advanced Competency-based Training for intensive Care (coordinator: Plymouth University)
- INORP: Innovation through reflexivity and participation: Strengthening the education and professionalization of social work in professional interfaces (coordinator: Charles University)
- INTRINSIC: INnovative educaTion foR sustainable eNtrepreneurShip in lIfe sCiences (coordinator: Universitaet fuer bodenkultur Wien)
- ISEU: Innovations in Socially Engaged Universities (coordinator: The University of Exeter)
- MY GEO: Geo tools for Modernization and Youth employment (coordinator: Universita degli studi di Padova)
- OceanTraining: OceanTraining.eu: toolbox for digital ocean education (coordinator: Universiteit Gent)
- OptimTex: Software tools for textile creatives (coordinator: The National Research and development institute for textiles and leather)
- PATHWAY: International career pathways and online curriculum for clinician scientists (coordinator: University Medical Center Utrecht)
- PEACH Preserving and promoting Europe's cultural and linguistic heritage through empowerment of bilingual children and families ( coordinator: Universiteit Gent)
- ProuDtoTeachAll: Professional Development Strengthening Competencies to Teach All Learners in an Inclusive Learning Environment (coordinator: Artevelde Hogeschool)
- REALISE Realising the potential of the international mobility of staff in higher education (coordinator: Université Paul-Valery Montpellier III)
- ReMEIC: Research Master in European and International Criminology (coordinator: Erasmus University Rotterdam)
- SHEFCE: Steering Higher Education For Community Engagement (coordinator: Institute for the Development of Education)
- Skills4Smartex: Smart textiles for STEM training (coordinator: Institutul national de cercetare-dezvoltare pentru textile si pielarie)
- SPIMT Development of innovative and transnational teaching contents and didactic methods including blended and peer learning (coordinator: HWR Berlin)
- SQELT: Sustainable Quality Enhancement in Higher Education Learning and Teaching. Integrative Coare Dataset and Performance Data Analytics (coordinator: Stiftung Evaluationsagentur Baden-Wuerttemberg)
- TRACKs: TRAnsitions Children and Kindergarten (coordinator: University of Jagiellonski)
- ENLIGHT: European University Network to Promote Equitable Quality of Life, Sustainability and Global Engagement through Higher Education Transformation (coordinator: Universiteit Gent)
- eTOMATO: Training and Orientation for Multifunctional Agriculture enTrepreneurial Opportunities (coordinator: Universita degli Studi di Foggia)
- ICT-TEX: ICT in textile and clothing higher education and business (coordinator: Technical University of Sofia)
- LEAN4.0: Lean European Action-Learning Network utilizing industry 4.0 (coordinator: Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige Universitet NTNU)
- T-CREPE: Textile Engineering for Co-creation Paradigms in Education (coordinator: Universiteit Gent)
- TECLO. Textile and Clothing Knowledge Alliance. Future textile and clothing managers for export, marketing, innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship oriented companies (coordinator: Link Campus University)
- MATES: Maritime Alliance for forstering the European Blue Economy through a Marine Technology skilling Strategy (coordinator: Marine Technology Center (CETMAR))
- CABCIN: Quality higher education: establishment of capacity building centers as a sustainable solution to raise the standards of teaching staff in Indian higher education (coordinator: Wroclaw University of Science and Technology)
- CLEMA: Knowledge, Curricula and Practice for the Educational Support Worker in Vietnam (coordinator: Professionhojskeolen I Region Sjaelland)
- CONSEA: Developing Curricula for Environmental Safety and Biodiversity Conservation in Southeast Asia (coordinator: Université de Toulouse)
- DigiHealthAsia: Capacity Building for Digital Health Monitoring and Care Systems in Asia (coordinator: Universiteit Gent)
- FABLAB: Development of a network infrastructure for youth innovation entrepreneurship support on fablab platforms (coordinator: Buckinghamshire New University)
- FORINT: Internationalisation of HEI's in Cuba and Panama (coordinator: EFMD)
- IN2FOOD: IN2FOOD (coordinator: Parahyangan Catholic University)
- NEMEDUSA: Nematology Education in Sub-Sahara Africa (coordinator: Universiteit Gent)
- NutriSEA: Network of universities and enterprises for food training in Southeast Asia (coordinator: Universiteit Gent)
- RecMat: Recognition Matters (coordinator: University of Porto)
- Smartex: Smart textiles - Modernisation of curriculum of Textile Engineering and Textile Technology in Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan (coordinator: Panepistimio Dytikis Attikis)
- SIMPLE: Support of International Platform Merging Labour an Education (coordinator: Ceska Zemedelska Universzita V Praze)
- TeComp: Strengthening Teaching Competences in Higher Education in Natural and Mathematical Sciences (coordinator: University of Nis)
- UNICAM: Implementing quality of education and training of young universities in the rural area of Cambodia (coordinator: University of Girona)
- WATERMAS: Climate change and Water management in the focus of international master programs (coordinator: University of Applied Sciences Magdburg-Stendal)
- Yebo!: Development of the Internationalization of PhD studies in South-Africa (coordinator: Université de Montpellier)
- DEQAR: Database of External Quality Assurance Results (coordinator: European Quality Assurance Register)
- Erasmus Without Paper (coordinator: Universiteit Gent)
- EWP 2.0: Erasmus Without Paper (coordinator: European University Foundation)
- FAIR: Focus on Automatic Institutional Recognition (coordinator: Ministerie van onderwijs, cultuur en wetenschap)
- InTrans: Inclusive Transition across the Early Years (coordinator: Vernieuwing in de Basisvoorzieningen voor Jonge Kinderen)
- SEED: Smart Entrepreneurial Education and training in Digital farming (coordinator: Azienda vivaistica regionale umbraflor)
- TEFCE: Towards a Framework for Community Engagement for Higher Education (coordinator: Technische Universitaet Dresden)
- GOVTRAN: Governing the EU's climate and energy transition in turbulent times (coordinator: Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
- PACO: Interparliamentary Cooperation in EU External Action - Parliamentary Scrutiny and Diplomacy in the EU and Beyond (coordinator: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
- Contemporary History: Network for Applied European Contemporary History (coordinator: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
- EU@Home: European Union Law at Home (coordinator: Universiteit Gent)
- 2PASS-4Health: Promoting Physical Activity in Secondary School for Health (coordinator: Université de Pau)
- EPOSM: Evidence-based Prevention of Sporting-related Match-fixing (coordinator: Universiteit Gent)
- Integriball: Grassroots and Women's football (coordinator: Counter Sport Corruption Foundation for Sport Integrity)
- SG3: Sport Good Governance Game (coordinator: LUNEX International University of Health, Exercise and Sports S.A.)
Funded under other EU funding instruments
- EDSSI: European Digital Student Service Infrastructure (coordinator: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
- Masters of Didactics (coordinator: Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland)
- EWP+: Erasmus Without Paper. Framework Contract for Services related to the development, implementation and support of the European Student Card Initiative – online systems, processes and services in relation to learning exchanges (coordinator: European University Foundation)