The BETTER Life team from the Estonian University of Life Sciences has been awarded, as a part of a larger partnership, the Erasmus+ CBHE project ENTER – Environmental open data for engaging curricula and research training.
This project has been developed as a part of the BETTER Life exploitation strategy with its central idea to promote the BETTER Life toolkit and capacity building efforts. ENTER aims to develop and pilot in India and Malaysia a sustainable model for the engagement between the academia and stakeholder communities that is driven by sharing, co-creation and joint application of environmental data. During the project lifetime ENTER will pilot 5 living labs, 4 citizen science projects, and connect them to research and educational provision. It will develop 70 ECTS of degree and microcredential courses, pilot 3 hackathons and make all the learning materials available through its learning platform ENTERnet, with 460+ students cumulatively enrolled. It will ensure access to data and research facilities to partners. ENTER will run 20+ impactful training and disseminating events addressing both academic and broader stakeholder communities with total audience of 150 learners. This will include the events for training “engagement managers” as well as data and IT literacy both at HEIs and local communities, in particular to underrepresented and vulnerable social and gender groups.
The 36 months project is expected to commence in October 2025. It includes total 11 partners in Estonia, Germany, Italy, Hungary, India and Malaysia, including 8 universities and research organisations and 3 non-academic partners.