Workpackage 8

Work Package Number	WP8	Lead Beneficiary	Uman National University of Horticulture
Start Month	26	End Month	36

SO1. Strengthen cooperation between the EU and the Eastern Partnership, which is part of the consortium, and promote their socio-economic potential by implementing a sustainable distance education system for the formation of promising competencies, taking into account cognitive, behavioural, and technological transformations of the individual, society and labor market.

Т.8.1. Carrying out the distance education as a separate independent form of education in HEI on a permanent basis, including for specialties that are not part of the experiment;
Т.8.2. Development of proposals for the revision of higher education standards for specialties considering the specifics of distance education and prospective requests of stakeholders;
Т.8.3. Development of proposals for the revision of approaches to the financing of educational institutions, considering the peculiarities of the distance education;
Т.8.4. Creation of the Association of educational institutions that provide the distance education;
Т 8.5. Establishment of cooperation with the institutions of the Social Protection Fund for the Disabled and the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, the Ministry for Veterans Affairs of Ukraine and the Ministry for Reintegration of Temporary Occupied Territories for the wide involvement of people with special needs, the same as veterans of the war, victims of the war and internally displaced people in education through the distance form.

D.8.1. Sustainability action plan.
D.8.2. Final conference: to present project results, proposals for revising the HE standards and approaches, prospects for further development of distance education development as a separate independent form of education in HEI.