Work Plan
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The WP1’s Driving Force is uncovering strengths and challenges in higher education arena, at national and international level, through comparative and innovative research. The strategy envisaged for this work package consists in taking advantage of the HESPRI worldwide consortium to investigate higher education public policies problematics from 2000-onwards, within a comparative and innovative research framework with the aim of informing transformative and evidence-based educational policies and fostering culturally aware and sensitive transfers.
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The WP2’s Driving Force is updating and adapting definitions of quality in higher education and producing a renewed, comprehensive set of methodologies and indicators for quality evaluation and assessment. The team conducting the research will (re)define and innovatively pilot and assess different criteria of quality in higher education, in order to be able to carve out benefits and risks, taking the path dependency into considerations. The innovative methodology and set of indicators for quality assessment and evaluation in higher education will be proposed for different levels of effectiveness and distinct dimensions of effectiveness (i.e., digitalisation, social equality and sustainability). -
The WP3’s Driving Force is building consensus among academics and researchers, on the one hand, and policymakers, on the other hand, in order to embed interdisciplinarity in higher education policy. This WP will identify the framework for integrating the scientific associations, that will pilot a new communication methodology of research results relevant for policymakers and decision-makers in higher education. The WP will foster the engagement of relevant scientific groups in the higher policy debate and policymaking through a local meeting and discussion with higher education policymakers, exploring disciplinary and interdisciplinary vectors of communication, with the qualitative data analysis for subtle comparisons. -
The WP4’s driving Force is outlining a framework for evidence-based public policies in technology-enriched education and research, in order to effectively answer to the characteristics of industry profiles in the future, in an Open Science principles perspective. This WP embraces an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, and it is built around three main pillars, namely digitalisation, metaverse and open science, approached from three complementary angles: small-scale, interdisciplinary research initiatives, institutional (and inspirational) case-studies and systematic reviews and/or meta-analyses on technology-related effects in education, research and communicating research in universities, as evidence-based suggestions for policies in the field. -
The main objectives of WP5 reflect the commitment to embrace cultural heterogeneity leading to improved policymaking in higher education. The specific objectives are to (i) promote HESPRI methodologies to the large public via a range of communication media, (ii) organise dissemination tours, and (iii) demonstrate the flexibility of HESPRI methodologies on local, regional and large scale. The WP will establish and implement the Plan for dissemination and exploitation including communication activities (the Dissemination Plan). -
The WP6 addresses the management and coordination of the network. The WP aims to optimise the overall level of coordination and to manage the research activities and the secondments, guaranteeing a well-structured implementation. In addition to internal reporting procedures, internal communication, and overall monitoring, WP6 will develop and monitor the implementation of the Data Management Plan (DMP).