SUNRISE - SUPPORTING UKRAINE•S NEXT GENERATION OF SCHOLARS: А PROJECT FOR RAISING UNIVERSITY CAPACITY AND LMPROVING DOCTORAL STUDENT EDUCATION

Project Acronym: SUNRISE

Funding: The project is funded under the Erasmus+ programme (KA2 call)

Full Title: Supporting the Next Generation of Ukrainian Researchers: A Project to Strengthen University Capacity and Enhance Doctoral Training

Project Number: 2024-1-IT02-KA220-HED-000256685

Project Duration: 1 September 2024 – 31 August 2027

Aim of the Project:

SUNRISE is aimed at supporting Ukrainian PhD students in environmental sciences who have faced challenges due to the war.

The project involves

• build war-resistant and resilient learning infrastructure;
• support the war resilience and post-war recovery through curriculum contents reflecting the emerging challenges;
• ensure future academic competitiveness and research innovation.

Main project objectives

1. Ensuring resilience of learning infrastructure and resources of PhD training in environmental fields, through the development of ICT and organisational solutions providing uninterrupted access of PhD students in Ukraine to credit mobility, supervision, graduation and networking solutions.
2. Supporting resilience to war impacts and postwar recovery of Ukraine through the development of curriculum contents and teaching expertise in the areas of disaster preparedness and post-disaster restoration of settlements, agrifood- and ecosystems.
3. Strengthening the development perspectives of Ukrainian partners in the post-war period bу establishing resilience guidelines for supporting strategic recovery planning and enhancing Ukrainian higher education and research, especially in environmental studies.

Expected Results

• An IСТ online framework for PhD training (e-learning, e-science modules, e-portfolio), organisational and institutional solutions for accessing network resources avai!aЬ!e to ЕИ partners, and training events for future users of the developed products.
• New courses and modules of 10 ECTS, addressing issues of war resilience and post-war recovery, with particular attention to war-related impacts
• Co-supervision of Ukrainian PhD students with the provision of different forms of resource support;
• Training events for staff and students addressing the emerging issues
• Resilience guidelines to support the recovery process, the development of competitive environmental research, and the research training, as we/1 as other activities and knowledge exchange with the EU partners.