The UniTwin project aims to enhance the capacity of universities to deliver education and training aligned with the green and digital transition.
It focuses on making higher education more closely connected to real economic and societal needs by working directly with businesses, public authorities, and civil society. The project supports universities in developing relevant skills, modern study programmes, and practical learning opportunities that respond to the challenges of sustainability and digitalisation.
UniTwin is a natural continuation of the AFID project, which created the foundations for inclusive, digital, and multi-institutional cooperation in higher education. Building on the results of AFID ERASMUS+ project (the Virtual Inclusive Campus), UniTwin moves from infrastructure development to systematic stakeholder engagement and skills development for the twin transition.
Through UniTwin, partner universities from Ukraine and EU Member States will work together to turn cooperation into long-term practice, ensuring that education evolves together with the labour market and public-sector needs.
The UniTwIn Project aims to tackle the twin transition challenge through consistent achievement of the following specific objectives:
- To develop the career advancement infrastructural framework, which contains: 5 Career Advancement Hubs (CAdHubs) specializing at different economic sectors (energy, construction, agriculture, trade & logistics, IT & AI commercial exploitation); Network for information exchange and learning resource sharing (SkillNet) that links the scope of business entities, state bodies, NGO and other stakeholders with Universities as skills providers in order to enrich the study and provide stakeholder engagement; Virtual Inclusive Campus (VIC) is a multiinstitutional educational online space, created under the previous AFID project and open for students of different Ukrainian HEIs which is integrated into the relevant infrastructure as the digital platform for online study in sphere of twin transition, as well provision of stakeholder-led components.
- To develop the methodology of identifying stakeholders needs for skills in twin transition, which underlines regular stakeholder surveys in order to develop / update professional studies focused on twin transition.
- To develop the toolbox of stakeholders’ engagement in competence supply to provide staff capacity building in terms of stakeholder-oriented study and for better match of the educational content and study methods with stakeholders’ needs in twin transition.
- To introduce effective approaches of integrating the twin transition into professional life-long learning (LLL) through stakeholder-led piloting with 10 professional courses focused on twin transition in the defined fields (energy, construction, agriculture, trade & logistics, IT & AI commercial exploitation). Courses are open not only for Ukrainian HEIs students, but also for SkillNet residents in order to upgrade their skills in twin transition.
- To mainstream competence supply with stakeholder engagement by the approval of formal policies of 5 Ukrainian HEIs that multiply the positive effects of stakeholder engagement on the wide range of study courses and practices.
6. To promote international cooperation of HEIs through staff mobility (130), conducting mutual events (9), cooperation in desk-research, learning from each other.
Our Commitment to Sustainability and Digital Transition
All UniTwin project activities are designed in line with the principles of environmental sustainability and digital transformation. The project promotes:
- Green and resource-efficient solutions in education and skills development.
- Digital tools and platforms for inclusive, flexible learning.
- Long-term capacity building that supports a sustainable and resilient economy.
By combining sustainability, digitalisation, and stakeholder engagement, UniTwin helps universities become active drivers of the twin transition in Ukraine and beyond.
If you have any questions or would like to learn more about the UniTwin project, please follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook and reach out via direct messages.