Smartel

The relevant ministries in EU candidate and in EU neighborhood countries have adopted educational development strategies in recent years, which provide guidance on how to improve teaching by applying ICT in accordance with the Goal 4 of the UN 2030 Agenda. The overall objective of the project is to improve the teaching process at the HEIs in the Region 1 (Kosovo UN Resolution 1244, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina) with a special emphasis on enabling the access to a quality teaching process for students who, for objective reasons, can not attend regular teaching activities at HEIs. The project goal is using of modern ICT technology and pedagogical approaches to promote equity to the students with: a) disability, b) economic obstacles: people with a low standard of living, low income, dependence on social welfare system and c) geographical obstacles: people from remote or rural areas; people living in small islands or in peripheral regions

The Programme countries’ HEIs will help Partner countries’ HEIs from Region 1 to modernise teaching process through the set-up of modern distance learning platforms and smart classrooms (SMART E-Learning), and development of new pedagogical approaches for usage of Smart EL in teaching of all students, and with special emphasis in teaching of students: with disabilities, from remote and isolated geographic regions, students in regional branches, and students with poor socioeconomic status.

Specific objective of the project are:

• Increase the percentage of the lectures (or contact hours between a pedagogue and a student, or credits, or learning goals achieved) performed with the use of ICT;
• Increase the presence of students in lecturing (remotely or in classroom) with the use of ICT;
• Increase of inclusion of students with special needs into studying programmes of target HEIs;

KICK OFF meeting

The kick-off meeting was held online on the 08th and 09th February 2021.

More details at https://smartel.pr.ac.rs/kick_off_meeting/