Updated: 5/1/2025

"Digital University - Open Ukrainian Initiative" (DigiUni)

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Erasmus+ Program. КА2 Capacity building in higher education Strand 3: Structural reform projects 
Coordinator from KSU: Oleksandr Spivakovskiy     
Project duration: 48 months
Coordinator: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Budget: 5 000 000 EUR
Grant amount for KSU: 316 00 EUR
Website link: https://digiuni.kspu.edu/

About the project:  The DigiUni project is aimed at supporting higher education in Ukraine during the wartime and post-war restoration period. Currently, it is the largest project under the Erasmus+ program ever implemented in Ukraine.

In 2023, the European Commission opened a special call for Ukraine within the framework of the Erasmus+ program in response to the challenges faced by Ukrainian higher education due to the full-scale invasion by russia and its consequences. The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, together with Ukrainian partner universities, worked on a proposal that would combine a systematic approach, wide impact, and cooperation of all Ukrainian higher education institutions.

As a result of the call, the DigiUni project has been selected and supported by European partners.

The project is implemented by a consortium of Ukrainian and European universities and institutions.

The competent National Authorities (Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance), HEIs, business associations and stakeholders will work together within the DigiUni project for mutual learning among and between public authorities aiming to:
- Foster systemic improvement and innovation in the higher education sector.
- Develop inclusive higher education system to ensure the right conditions for students of different backgrounds and fewer opportunities to access and succeed in their studies.
- Modernise governance and financing of Ukrainian higher education system.
- Increase the capacities of Ukrainian HEIs by synergies with ongoing EU initiatives including Erasmus+.

All members of the consortium are eager to play a role in setting up a high-performing digital education ecosystem that can ensure continuity and performance in their academic activities to keep attracting all learners and enhancing their employability in a knowledge-driven economy.

Objective: 
1. Development of a high-performing digital educational ecosystem in Ukraine to ensure continuous, high-quality, inclusive, and transparent education, regardless of the student's and teacher’s location, using the existing digital innovations in the field of education and the understandable paradigm of involving future innovations, develop holistic and sustainable higher education system to meet socio-economic needs and broad ambitions for a knowledge-based economy.
2. Digitalization of teaching and learning methods and providing the infrastructure necessary for online and inclusive education.
3. Contribution to the progressive synchronization of Ukrainian and European universities in line with the values, standards, and priorities of the European Higher Education Area, and in the perspective of the future accession of Ukraine to the European Union (EU). The project aims to promote the manifestation of European solidarity on a "bottom-up" principle based on inter-institutional cooperation and a result-oriented approach, combined with various levels of political decision-making.

Specific Objectives:

- To develop the concept, strategy, and action plan for creating an integrated and inclusive digital educational ecosystem in Ukraine to be submitted for state adoption.
- To develop and launch the all-Ukrainian digital educational environment – DigiPlatform.
- To develop DigiUni as a pilot organizational mechanism for uniting, transforming, and integrating HEIs and other interested institutions for achieving the common objective, it includes the creation of the Open DigiUni-Ukraine Charter.
- To develop the rules for ensuring and improving the quality of the digital content at the higher education institutions of Ukraine, methods of the digital content quality assessment, developing methodology and guidelines for creating digital content and digital courses.
- To build up the project infrastructure and tools: to create DigiCentres at each Ukrainian higher education partner institution with the necessary software and equipment.
- To develop the primary DigiPlatform content, in particular, the complete list of the available digital courses and other digital materials of the Ukrainian partner-HEIs with direct links to their university's digital resources; to place and/or create on the platform direct links to the digital. courses/resources of the European partners which they are ready to provide the Ukrainian audience with granted access.
- To develop 100+ new courses in different fields of knowledge, with 20 of them incorporating the use of virtual or/and augmented reality and/or virtual/remote laboratories; to build in and/or create virtual and remote laboratories.
- To localise 20+ EU-partners’ courses and to publish them on DigiPlatform.
- To create 20 separate educational modules and 30 microlearning modules for the non-university audience.
- To train 600 educators as digital content facilitators, 30 – as administrators of the content, and 40 – as specialists in quality assessment of the content.
- To provide 5,000+ students with courses and 1,000+ non-academics with educational modules using DigiPlatform within the pilot DigiUni project
- To realize 20+ examples of std’s virtual mobility among UA partner-HEIs.

Target groups

The target groups of the project are the following:
• Students of HEIs, general secondary education, and professional pre-higher education institutions;
• Teachers of HEIs of Ukraine, who should learn to work in the latest digital environment, create new digital content, and use an existing one, including that provided by other higher education institutions from Ukraine and partners from the EU;
• Veterans, temporarily displaced persons, persons who suffered from military operations in Ukraine and need retraining for employment;
• Persons with limited educational opportunities who wish to obtain higher education or improve their qualifications;
• Persons interested in professional and personal development, getting micro-credentials on a flexible learning trajectory

Partners:
1. TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV, Ukraine
2. NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV-MOHYLA ACADEMY, Ukraine
3. SUMY STATE UNIVERSITY, Ukraine
4. SIMON KUZNETS KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS, Ukraine 
5. YURIY FEDKOVYCH CHERNIVTSI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, Ukraine 
6. UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY, Ukraine
7. NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY KHARKIV POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, Ukraine
8. KHERSON STATE UNIVERSITY, Ukraine 
9. MARIUPOL STATE UNIVERSITY, Ukraine 
10. IVAN FRANKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LVIV, Ukraine 
11. MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF UKRAINE
12. MINISTRY OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF UKRAINE
13. UKRAINIAN ASSOCIATION OF IT PROFFESIONALS
14. NATIONAL AGENCY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION QUALITY ASSURANCE, Ukraine 
15. FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITY ERLANGEN-NURENBERG, Germany 
16. MASARYKOVA UNIVERZITA, Czechia 
17. UNIVERSITAT ZU KOLN, Germany
18. ADAM MICKIEWICZ POZNAN UNIVERSITY, Poland 
19. UNIVERSITY OF STRASBOURG, France 
20. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER, Germany 
21. UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE, Spain  
22. ASSOCIATION OF EXCHANGE & CONSULTING IN INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES, France 
23. UKRAINIAN ASSOCIATION OF STUDENTS, Ukraine 
24. PUBLIC ORGANIZATION "UKRAINIAN SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATION, Ukraine
25. TECHICAL INFORMATION LIBRARY, Germany
26. ASSOCIATION EUROPEENNE DE L'UNIVERSITE, Belgium

News: 

KSU Discusses Progress of the DigiUni International Program Project
Meeting of the Methodological Group for the DigiUni Project Held in Kyiv
KSU Is Determining the List of Courses to Be Created under the DigiUni Project
Meeting at KSU on the DigiUni Project: Forming the Team's Work Plan for the Year
KSU Vice-Rector for Digitalization Takes Part in Technical Meeting on DigiUni Project
KSU Representatives Take Part in a Training Workshop under the DigiUni Program in Germany
KSU Deans Took Part in Training Workshops within the DigiUni Project
KSU Deans Attend a Training Workshop at the University of Strasbourg (France)
KSU Team Joined the Training within the DigiUni Project
KSU Team Presented the Results of the First 6 Months of the DigiUni Project
KSU Representatives Joined the Training within the International DigiUni Project
Representatives of KSU Are among the Participants of Trainings to Improve Digital Competence under the DigiUni Project
KSU Representatives Are Participating in a Training Session under the DigiUni Project
KSU Presented the Dissemination Strategy of the International DigiUni Project
KSU Delegation Took Part in the Meeting for the DigiUni Project in France 
KSU, Together with the Partners, Will Work on a Large-Scale Project for University Digitalization
KSU Is Participating in a Major Project on the Creation of a Digital University