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

Author: EMBRACE Team

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.

Teachers’ Digital Competency Development

Author: EMBRACE Team

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

Faculty Development and Training for Global Digital Learning Initiatives

Author: Essi Ryymin

The fast evolution of digital technologies is transforming higher education, highlighting the need for ongoing professional development in global digital learning. Faculty must be trained in digital pedagogy, cross-cultural collaboration, and emerging technologies to create engaging, inclusive, and flexible online learning experiences across international contexts.

Conference In BragançaInternational conference in Bragança boosts collaboration and innovation in higher educationConference In Bragança

An international conference in Bragança highlighted collaboration within the European STARS EU alliance. It fostered dialogue, showcased projects, and promoted academic innovation. Notably, Professor Inês Barbedo presented the Embrace project, emphasizing its potential to strengthen collaboration and innovation in higher education, especially within the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB) community.

Per(courses) of researchers in teacher training: possibilities and challenges for institutional transformation in education and technologies

Thus, the following sections present actions coordinated by the researchers, such as training courses, workshops and events, which culminated in the approval of the international research project Erasmus Capacity Building Higher Education “EMBRACE – Education Modernization Brazil, Colombia, Europe – the new era of digital higher education cooperation, valid from 2023 to 2026, in which, in addition to UFABC, other Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) from Brazil, Finland, Portugal and Colombia participate.

Digital transformation in higher education: UFABC towards the development of a learning ecosystem

The project, entitled EMBRACE: “Education Modernization Brazil, Colombia, Europe – the new era of digital higher education cooperation”, was approved under the ERASMUS-EDU-2022-CBHE call, Development of Competences in the Field of Higher Education, Axis 2: Partnerships for Transformation in Higher Education.

The relevance of competency-based training, what does it consist of?

Competency-based training is based on identifying these key skills and designing educational programs that help students acquire them and apply them in practical situations.