eLead Speed provides a set of highly usable outputs. A series of 12 short eLeadership courses (IO5) will be developed by the educators based on the eLeadership Observatory data (IO1) and the eLeadership Competence Framework (IO2) and facilitated by the Community of Practice (IO3) and the Trainers’ Toolkit: How to Design, Deliver and Evaluate eLeadership Curricula (IO4). The trainers will work collaboratively online to design the courses making use of OER and e-tivities. The courses will be stored and rendered available inside the OER repository (IO3) for free use by all trainers who are registered to the Community.

The selected methodology covers the entire cycle from industry requirements through occupational profiles to innovative educational content that provides relevant skills and competences and this way creates new opportunities for the industry but also creates new industry requirements for new training and courses. It follows the principles of incremental development and continuous improvement. The selected transdisciplinary, holistic approach aims to guarantee transferability and scalability of the results and to secure high levels of sustainability.

The project is structured in a highly cohesive work implementation configuration having a main coordinator and individual output/task coordinators in order to promote internal leadership and to drive active participation and inclusion in the project activities of each project member.

The task and responsibilities are distributed as follows:

Overall project management is performed by New Bulgarian University.

The e-Leadership Observatory, a software tool for state-of-the-art analysis, monitoring of the business needs and incremental curricula development (IO1) will be developed by New Bulgarian University with the contribution of all other partners who will ensure the gathering of local companies’ needs and perceptions on eLeadership skills gaps.

The development of the eLeadership Competence Framework and guidelines (IO2) will be led by Algebra with the support of all the other partners.

The Community of Practice (IO3) will be led by Gruppo Pragma. However, all the other partners will be involved in the implementation and use of the IO particularly for having the local trainers developing the online courses as envisaged in IO5.

The Trainer’s toolkit (IO4) will be led by MUAS. However, all the other partners will contribute in designing, delivering and evaluating the concerned IO via the short training envisaged for this IO and coordinated by ESI CEE.

The Online courses on e-leadership skills (IO5) will be developed by local trainers involved in Capacity Building activities, coordinated by ISTUD, and led at local level by the Bulgarian, Italian, Croatian and German partners.

The quality assurance process is led by ESI CEE and supported by NAVET as an associate partner. However, all partners will be involved in the quality assurance tasks.

The dissemination task is led by the Digital National Alliance. All partners will be involved into its co-creation as well as in the constant dissemination tasks, including the organisation of the multiplier events, which will be monitored by DNA.

1. IO1: eLeadership Observatory (led by New Bulgarian University)

The eLeadership Observatory is a software tool that will provide support for state-of-the-art analysis, monitoring of the business needs and incremental curricula development using DACUM approach. Furthermore, the e-Leadership Observatory will be open to the public and available online during the entire project as a tool for monitoring the changes of the business environment.

Tasks leading to the output:

1. O1/A1: Definition of scope
2. O1/A2: Software development
3. O1/A3: Software delivery
4. O1/A4: Collect initial data using eLeadership Observatory and create a preliminary list of required skills and competences
5. O1/A5: Integrate recent research findings
6. O1/A6: Verify the findings and create a refined list of required skills and competences
7. IO2: e-Leadership Competences Framework (led by Algebra)

Within this output, results from IO1 as well as existing documents will be used in order to prepare a competence framework for e-leadership programmes to serve as a blueprint for curriculum design (both for teacher training as well as for student training programmes). The approach is linked to the European Qualification Framework (EQF) concept of occupation descriptions, the European e-Competence Framework (e-CF) and the eLeadership paradigm.

Tasks leading to the output:

1. O2/A1: Introduction to the methodology of designing eLeadership competences framework based on occupational requirements
2. O2/A2: Development of guidelines (EN, BG, DE, HR, IT)
3. O2/A3: Video tutorials and manual (EN, BG, DE, HR, IT)
4. O2/A4: Development of an eLeadership Competence Framework as a support for the design of eLeadership programmes
5. IO3: Community of Practice and OER repository (led by Gruppo Pragma)

This IO will consist of the delivery of a software platform supporting the project’s Community of Practice and related OER repository. This platform will be selected among Open Source platforms and will be customised according to the needs of project’s related activities in order to enhance the collaborative work during the Capacity Building Sessions (IO5) and to store the courses (OERs) resulting from this collaboration.

Tasks leading to the output:

1. O3/A1: Assessment and selection of software platform
2. O3/A2: Customisation of the Community of Practice and OER Software Platform
3. O3/A3: Guidelines for selecting a software platform to support Community of Practice and OER
4. O3/A4: End User guide
5. O3/A5: Methodological guidelines for Collaborative work in a Community of Practice using OER and online facilitation (e-tivities)
6. IO4: Trainer’s Toolkit: How to Design, Deliver and Evaluate eLeadership Curricula (led by MUAS)

This IO aims to validate the previously developed outputs and deliver a co-creation workshop. During the workshop master trainers from the partner institutions will work collaboratively to elaborate a Trainer’s Toolkit. The Toolkit will entail a methodological guide and practical instructions for teachers and trainers on how to design, deliver and evaluate online eLeadership curricula and related courses. The Trainer’s Toolkit will build upon IO1 the list of required skills and competences, IO2 the eLeadership Competence Framework and IO3 Community of Practice, as three pillars serving as a blueprint for eLeadership curriculum design.

MUAS will lead this activity with the participation of all partners in the training workshop event, an international 3-day joint staff training event with the participation of 2 master trainers from each partner institution, organised in Bulgaria by ESI CEE.

Tasks leading to the output:

1. O4/A1: Design of the programme of the co-creation workshop
2. O4/A2: Organisation of the international co-creation workshop event
3. O4/A3: Delivery of the Trainer’s Toolkit (beta version)
4. O4/A4: Delivery of the Trainer’s Toolkit (final version) (EN, BG, DE, HR, IT)
5. IO5: Online Courses on eLeadership Skills (led by ISTUD)

This IO will consist of a set of 12 short courses on eLeadership skills, which will be the main outcomes of a series of 4 Capacity Building Sessions (CBS) to be organised in each partner country in order to present and explain how to use the Trainer’s Toolkit. The CBSs will be delivered by the master trainers who elaborated the toolkit to a group of educators recruited by each partner. The trainees can be either representatives of the partner institutions or external participants. They will attend a two-day class-based training to get acquainted with the project methodology and tools (Trainer’s Toolkit). Then they will use the Community of Practice in order to work collaboratively online to design 12 short courses making use of Open Educational Resources (OERs) and e-tivities for collaborative online learning. A final one-day class-based session is foreseen for the presentation of the developed courses and discussion of the meta-learning outcomes. The concerned courses will be stored and rendered available inside the Community of Practice for free use by all the educators who are registered to it. The final feedback received from the trainees will be used to fine-tune the Trainer’s Toolkit and release its final version.

Tasks leading to the output:

1. O5/A1: Designing the Capacity Building Sessions and project work
2. O5/A2: Design the assessment procedures and tools
3. O5/A3: Organise and deliver the CBS in each partner country resulting in the development of 12 Online courses stored in the CoP (EN, BG, DE, HR, IT)
4. O5/A4: Evaluation of the sessions