The Erasmus+ project BEE with APEX has been successfully completed!

12. 02. 2024. / Project

On January 31, 2024, the Erasmus+ project BEE with APEX with the full name Better Employability for Everyone with APEX was successfully completed.

The Erasmus+ project BEE with APEX supported the digital transformation of higher education institutions by developing the digital readiness, resilience and capacity of teachers and students. The project's activities led to the modernization of the IT curriculum and courses in the areas of front and back-end design of applications and databases. The project started with activities at the beginning of 2022 and officially ended on January 31, 2022.

The achieved results are:

Little-to-No-Code Programming with APEX eBook (available in English, Slovenian, Slovak, German, Greek, Polish and Croatian),
an advanced extracurricular open-access bachelor's level course on low-code front-end and back-end application and database development (lectures, practical exercises, assessments, exams and self-study for a total effort of 75 hours) worth 3 ECTS,
a short self-study course on the development with little or no coding of front-end and back-end applications and databases worth 1 ECTS,
recorded webinars on trends in the industry and employment,
case studies co-created with local SMEs on programming with little or no coding.

All developed materials, i.e. e-book in all partner languages, as well as an advanced and short programming course with little or no code, case studies and webinars can be found at the link - HERE.

The lead partner was the University of Maribor, Faculty of organizational sciences from Slovenia, and the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Žilina from Slovakia, Johannes Kepler University from Austria, International Hellenic University from Greece and Kozminski University from of Poland.

The project team of partners University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics was led by prof. Vjeran Strahonja, Ph.D., while the team members were associate professor Dijana Oreški, Ph.D., associate professor Darko Andročec,Ph.D., Larisa Hrustek, M.Econ., Ana Kutnjak, M.Econ. and Karlo Nadoveza, M.Econ.

The total value of the project was 268,362.00 euros, of which the FOI share was 39,678.00 euros, and it was financed through the Erasmus+ program, KA220-HED – Cooperation partnership in higher education.

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