Developing and improving the STEAM skills of students and teachers for curriculum innovation and sustainable development of higher education institutions and local businesses

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Our project is a response to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in a joint attempt to induce transformational change toward innovating curricula and promoting institutional reforms in HE Institutions in the 3rd country: Republic of Moldova (MD). It addresses the regional priority of sustainable growth and jobs, and fulfils the needs of local target group (students, teachers and practitioners), channels energy to generate solutions for lasting effects, improves peer-learning and transfer of experience, and strengthens the capacities of HEIs to be more responsive, especially in recent trends of a decline in human development, and economic inequalities exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis. The intervention mobilizes appropriate resources to accelerate the innovation capability of 5 (five) HEIs from the Northern, Central and Southern parts of MD through developing, testing, and adaptation of Innovative STEAM bachelor curriculum in Business & Administration enriched with active business involvement and European good practices. These are translated into impactful, measurable and scalable results and enhance the relevance of education with regard to the offer and uptake of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths (STEAM) skills, address the issues of unemployment, equipping local beneficiaries with competences for innovation and sustainable growth, as per: • 71 local firms involved in need analysis and set up of Innovative STEAM curriculum. • 240 students in B&A benefited from Innovative STEAM curriculum, per phase, by which 8 % disadvantages students. • 120 trainee students enrolled in modernized internships, per phase. • 60 academic staff from MD with STEAM skills and knowledge of new university governance systems. These address the offer and uptake of local STEAM skills, in coherence with national priorities set by Moldova National Strategy for Education 2030, and contributing thereof to the fulfillment of overarching priority set by EU.