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Rethinking Higher Education Innovation Ecosystems in Latin America and Europe -Lessons from the EMBRACE Project –

Author: EMBRACE Team

This report presents the design and implementation of strategies to strengthen digital competencies and institutional innovation within the EMBRACE project. It highlights collaborative approaches, capacity building, and systemic transformation across partner institutions, fostering sustainable digital education and enhancing academic and professional practices.

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D4.2 Series of workshops to support ecosystem development in partner institutions

Author: EMBRACE Team

This report presents the development of collaborative learning ecosystems within the EMBRACE project, focusing on university–industry cooperation. Through workshops, mentoring, and pilot initiatives, partner institutions designed and implemented innovative models that enhance skills development, foster co-creation, and strengthen connections between academia, industry, and society.

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EMBRACE partner university teams at an online teacher training event Image description (for all to see): The image illustrates the final moment of one of the online meetings of the teacher training participants. Organised in windows on the ZOOM application screen, it is possible to identify the faces of some of the participants. In the top left-hand corner is the image of the smiling face of Hamk teacher Essi, who led the session. Then there are the attentive faces of the participants from UFABC, Carla Rodriguez, Graciela Watanabe, Allan Xavier, Michele Sato, Carolina Carvalho and João Sato, distributed among other partners from the Brazilian (IFES and IFSP) and Colombian (UTP and Areandina) institutions.

Higher Education Innovation Ecosystem LatinAmerica and Europe: Self Assessment and Development Plans

Author: EMBRACE Team

This study examines how higher education institutions in Latin America and Europe assess and develop innovation ecosystems through participatory self-assessment. Findings reveal shared challenges, contextual differences, and strategic priorities, highlighting universities’ evolving role as key drivers of collaboration, inclusion, and sustainable innovation in complex educational and societal environments.

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Education, Modernization, Brazil, Colombia, Europe. The New Era of Higher Education Cooperation. (101083111). Final Publication.

The EMBRACE project showcases a collaborative initiative focused on strengthening teachers’ digital competencies. It highlights its participants, outputs, and communication channels, while reflecting on key experiences such as teacher training, administrative challenges, and the development of an innovative learning ecosystem that fosters digital transformation in education.

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Building and Empowering Professional Learning Communities in Higher Education: case Embrace

This article examines how the EMBRACE project builds professional learning communities in higher education, fostering collaboration, digital pedagogy, and institutional transformation. It highlights achievements, challenges, and strategies to strengthen teacher development, innovation, and sustainable partnerships between academia and society.

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Teachers’ Digital Competency Development

Collaborative book outlining digital competency frameworks, policies, and institutional practices to support higher education teachers’ digital pedagogy in Latin America.

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EMBRACE, the Podcast

EMBRACE is an international podcast about innovation and digital transformation in higher education, analyzing the impact of technology, artificial intelligence, and global cooperation on the modernization of teaching and the development of 21st-century skills.

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Joint development of EMBRACE MOOCs, a perspective from UTP teachers

This article reflects on the collaborative creation of MOOCs by Colombian and Brazilian universities within the EMBRACE project. It highlights intercultural teamwork, pedagogical reflection, and the transformative power of international cooperation in digital education. Language differences became bridges, fostering inclusive, participatory, and meaningful learning design for diverse contexts.

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Launch of the Embrace MOOC trilogy

The EMBRACE project, led by HAMK (Finland) with partners from Brazil, Colombia, and Portugal, launched a trilogy of MOOCs to train educators in digital and pedagogical skills, based on the ADDIEM model and DigCompEdu framework. The courses are available in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

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Embrace Team

EMBRACE team invites you to the launch of the international project’s MOOCs: free and open teacher training in digital, pedagogical and innovation skills

The EMBRACE project promotes institutional transformation in higher education through teacher training in digital and pedagogical skills. It develops MOOCs to foster innovative, inclusive learning ecosystems aligned with labor market and societal needs. Partner institutions from Brazil, Colombia, Portugal, and Finland collaborate to address complex local and regional challenges.

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Virtual course: digipedia – digital and pedagogical competences

From the CRIE, the UTP invites teachers to enroll in the MOOC Digipeda – Digital and Pedagogical Competencies, starting in October 2024. They will not only be able to strengthen their digital competencies, but also share and exchange ideas and experiences with teachers from Brazil.

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The construction of MOOCs in the Embrace project

The EMBRACE project is developing a trilogy of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) with the aim of training higher education teachers and managers in digital and pedagogical competences, and based on the European Digital Competence Framework for Educators.

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