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UVT a fost remarcată pentru bunele practici în inovare sustenabilă și cooperare inter-terirorială prin inițiativa Unita Rural Mobilities, prin UVT Digital and Green Living Lab.
Redăm alăturat conținutul în limba engleză al fișei de bune practici, la realizarea căreia au contribuit Andra-Mirona Stan-Dragotesc, Oana-Roxana Ivan, Alexandra Petcu.
“Rural Living Lab Good Practices “
The objective is to describe the good practices implemented that have contributed to generating real and long-lasting changes for the benefit of local populations and communities. A good practice is a successful experience that has been tested and maybe replicated in different contexts and can therefore be recommended as a model.
| Living Lab: | UVT Digital & Green Living Lab | |
| Indicate if you agree to publish the name of the LL in the publication | YES X | NO |
| Country: | Romania | |
| Location/Area: | Western Romania/ Banat region | |
| Supply Chain/Sector: | Higher Education | |
| Keywords: | Rural mobility, internship, innovation, internationalization, inter-territorial cooperation | |
| SDG: | 3 – Good Health and Well-Being 4 – Quality Education 5 – Gender Equality 8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth 9 – Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure 10 – Reduced Inequalities 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities 12 – Responsible Production and Consumption 17 – Partnership for the Goals | |
| Detected need: Briefly describe the situation detected and the need for change prior to the creation of the Living Lab. Where possible, report quantitative data. (max 1000 characters) | UNITA – Universitas Montium is an alliance of universities organized within the EC European Universities Initiative. The alliance comprises HEIs from Romance language speaking countries in Europe, located in rural and cross-border mountain regions. Their goal is to build an inspiring European university based on excellence in learning and teaching and on research and innovation for and with the territories, while fostering inter-territorial cooperation. One of UNITA’s objectives is focused on mobility. One specific need for change identified in this context connects student mobility and regional development and sustainability, with a distinct focus on inter-territorial cooperation and support given to the rural communities to enhance their innovation potential and internationalisation capabilities. Thus, the UNITA Rural Mobility programme was developed. The six universities and their regional partners have offered 500 internship places for international rural mobilities to the students of the alliance up to now, with West University of Timisoara and its partners from the Banat region of Romania hosting 38 such mobilities successfully. | |
| Change in Stakeholders: State which (and how many, where possible) stakeholders are active in the change process (local communities, civil society, associations, etc.) and which stakeholders have changed their scope of interest and/or influence. (max 1000 characters) | One scope of the UNITA alliance is strengthening the ties between HEIs and their regional territories, as well as facilitating the cooperation between the territories at European level. Additionally, one of UNITA’s actions is focused on international mobility of students and staff, not only as a means of personal and professional development, but also for the purpose of community-building and overall growth of all actors involved. As such, the West University of Timisoara, hosting the UVT Digital & Green Living Lab, cooperated closely between 2020-2023 with stakeholders involved in the change in the Banat Region under the UNITA Rural Mobility programme. The specific partners for hosting the rural mobilities are activated by the relevant civil society or governmental stakeholders. The 2021 mission include the WeWilder Campus, located in Armeniș, Carpathian Mountains, Romania. In 2022, the portfolio was diversified, adding the Mehadia archaeological site, the communities of Potoc, Socolari and Ilidia, Caraș-Severin County, Romania, as well as the community of Saschiz, Southern Transylvania, Carpathian Mountains, Romania. In 2023 the regional partners were located in Giarmata and Valeapai. | |
| Change triggered: Describe what impact the good practice will generate or has generated in the medium and long term (outcome and impact) in the lives of people and target communities. Where possible, give the acronym of the project under which the good practice was implemented. (max 1000 characters) | The UNITA Rural Mobility programme was developed within the framework of the UNITA Universitas Montium project implemented under the EC Erasmus+ European Universities Initiative between 2020-2023, as a new form of mobility. The impact of the programme can be observed in relation to five actors: the Alliance and the Universities (see below), the students, the local partners and the local communities. The student’s feedback was collected via questionnaires and roughly 80% of them were satisfied with the experience and rated it as a unique one for their career path. The partners varied from local NGOs in the areas of tourism, rural community building, rural architecture and archeology to local/ regional governmental institutions focused on cultural activities or schools. The feedback of the hosts was generally good based on much-needed additional human resources. Lastly, the feedback of the communities was 100% good as a spillover of benefits in the local communities ranged from practicing foreign languages with the students and testing intercomprehension as a method of communication to exchanging knowledge on various practices and skills. | |
| Brief description of the process that induced change in local society and the tools adopted: Describe whether a participatory approach was applied with local communities, knowledge transfer, development of forms of associationism, etc.; report products/ activities (outputs) realized and how they were used (facilities/equipment made available to people and the area, etc.). (max 1000 characters) | The UNITA Rural Mobility programme offers this new type of mobility to all students of the Alliance for the purpose of their personal and professional development. On the other hand, the programme helps test the capacity of the Alliance for integration by creating together such a unique programme, implement it in six different universities located in five countries, together with a range of diverse local partners in each region and keeping into account institutional, local and national regulations and legislation. These processes require extensive collaboration and coordination among the six universities and among the universities and the local partners, as all students need to benefit from similar opportunities throughout the alliance. The local partners acting as hosts for the students benefit from their presence and work there, the local communities grow by adapting to the students’ presence, while the students are stimulated to grow in an environment that is highly unusual for an international learning experience which can be included in their curricula. | |
| Communication materials and photo/video: List (and attach if possible) communication materials produced that show the change triggered or achieved. | 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbSgzHtymoo 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UjRpaFyGSo 2023: video in editting process. |
GLOSSARY
Criteria for
Good practice: Criteria for the identification of good practice are: effectiveness, efficiency, relevance, ethical soundness, sustainability and possibility of duplication, involvement of partners, and community involvement.
Impact: Long-term goal. The long-term and wide-ranging social, economic, civil society and/or environmental consequences of a program/project. Often also referred to as a goal, it may be positive, negative or null, expected or unforeseen. Unlike activities, outputs, and Page 39 The Theory of Change for international cooperation outcomes, it does not depend solely or mainly on the activity of the organization, but also on the role of other subjects, partners, and stakeholders.
Influence: The ability to resist or positively trigger the change process.
Interest: The degree of interest in the changes identified by the initiative.
Outcome: The changes in the medium term that the organization wants to generate at the level of knowledge, awareness, skills, attitudes, opinions, aspirations, motivations, behaviors, policies, decision-making processes, policies, and social systems. Outputs may be intentional and/or unintentional, positive and negative. They require specific outputs to be realized and contribute to achieving impact. If related to the organization’s overall strategy, they are the reason why the organization exists, often summarised in the mission.
Output: Activities, products, infrastructures, and services that the organization produces, provides, and/or manages (courses delivered, schools built, micro-credits granted, etc.) and that require specific resources (inputs). They help the organization achieve the desired outcome. They are the means to the end (change), not the end itself.
Stakeholders: All persons, variously constituted and structured entities, institutions and companies that are positively or negatively influenced, directly or indirectly, by the organization’s decisions and actions. They are usually distinguished into ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’. The former are those directly influenced by the organization’s actions and in whose name it defines its mission. Usually defined as ‘beneficiaries’, they are losing this definition due to the passivity it implies, which can only be justified in a purely welfarist approach.
Target group: The subjects (groups or categories of people, organizations, institutions, etc.) with respect to whom the program/project proposes to generate a certain change.
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Persoană responsabilă
- Alexandra Szuromi
- Centrul De Inovare și Transfer Tehnologic (CITT-UVT)
- alexandra.szuromi@e-uvt.ro