Meeting of the Erasmus+ project! (Announcement)

We are pleased to inform that the kick-off meeting of the Erasmus+ project:         “Advancing Research and Innovation in Higher Education through Virtual Exchanges (ARIVE)”        February 3, 2026 (on-line)

We are pleased to inform that the kick-off meeting of the Erasmus+ project – “Advancing Research and Innovation in Higher Education through Virtual Exchanges (ARIVE)” – took place on February 3, 2026, in an online format.
 

The ARIVE project (ERASMUS-EDU-2025-VIRT-EXCH-101250610) unites a consortium of eight universities and research institutes from European Union and Eastern Partnership countries to create an innovative environment for international research and learning collaboration.
 

The ARIVE consortium includes:

• Riga Technical University (Latvia) – project coordinator;
• Petre Shotadze Tbilisi Medical Academy (Georgia);
• Ilia State University (Georgia);
• I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University (Ukraine);
• University of Minho (Portugal);
• University of South-Eastern Norway (Norway);
• Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics of the NAS of Ukraine (Ukraine);
• University of Business and Technology (Georgia).

The main objectives of the project include:

• Enhancing research capacity and digital skills;
• Promoting international research collaboration and virtual mobility;
• Supporting displaced Ukrainian students and researchers;
• Increasing participation in EU research programs and applying AI-based e-learning, open science, and virtual mentoring.

Within the project framework, virtual research semesters (VRS) will be developed, AI-driven research training will be conducted, and structured virtual mentorship will be implemented.