Leading universities – catalysts for change (CATCHANGE)

Teaching is a multifaceted performance, demanding a wide range of knowledge and skills containing hard and soft skills. Numerous studies have revealed that students learn more when they have role models to look up to and are motivated to be inspired and guided accordingly. Therefore, there is a strong need for higher education teaching process improvements. There are being collected and developed innovative teaching methods nowadays, and there is an active part of academics who improve their lectures. But at the same time, there is a significant number of academics who are missing design–thinking skills for using innovative methods in their classes and still prefer traditional methods. Besides that, there is no practical, motivational system in the university that would support academics to use innovative methods.

The project “Leading universities – catalysts for change (CATCHANGE)” aims to develop 3 Intellectual outputs:

• Course “Academic leadership.”
• Course “Design thinking skills.”
• Creation of “Motivational system for academics.”

The project will allow academics to tackle skills and mismatches and support individuals in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competencies.

Project partners:
Latvia University
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Tallinn University