The project examines the impact of e-learning on students and teachers, with the aims of identifying the key drawbacks of this form of teaching, and taking a positive approach and looking for possible (and existing) adaptations to create a better version of e-learning, with a focus on preserving the features that are lost when education moves from physical to virtual spaces. The project aims to provide training for teachers that will serve as a tool for successful distance learning.

The Creative Repurposing of Educational Spaces for Innovative Student-centred Environments (CREST) project ran from September 2020 to December 2022. Six partner institutions - two universities, three NGOs and one network from Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, Lithuania and Belgium - developed ways to meaningfully repurpose learning spaces, taking into account learning ergonomics, student-centred approaches and participatory social practices.

The Erasmus+ project of three research institutions, the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb as beneficiary and the University of Ljubljana and the University of Rijeka as partners, ran from February 2019 to August 2021. By laying the foundations for the professionalisation of youth work and delivering a set of evidence-based outputs related to the education and training of youth workers, the project strengthened the capacities of youth workers and, in the long term, contributed to the overall quality of the youth work provision in the project partner countries (Croatia and Slovenia).

Many southern European regions suffer from high youth unemployment, including among university graduates, and severe constraints on public funding. In this context, higher education institutions are increasingly being judged on how they respond to the social and economic needs of society, on their actions to increase the employability of graduates, on their contribution to national economic growth and local development, and on how they stimulate the creation of new businesses and innovation in existing businesses. In line with evidence from European research, HEIs can respond to these challenges by fostering students' entrepreneurial mindset and transversal key skills such as foreign language skills in order to increase the employability of their students and contribute to economic growth. Higher education institutions in Southern Europe need innovative low-cost methodologies and educational models to improve the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education in terms of acquiring and developing skills that can be easily adapted, replicated and extended according to their specific needs and circumstances.