"<< Background >>In modern society, the rapid development of technology creates new challenges for the education and training system:•business requires specialists with specific competencies, depending on the application area;•students, even at the stage of study at the university, would like to receive a specialization for work in specific areas, often having no idea what competencies they would have to possess in addition to fundamental education in the relevant professional field;•universities are faced with the need to cooperate with each other to invite teachers to courses, the vacancies of the academic staff for which are not filled;•the interaction between universities and real business still has a gap in comparison with the requirements for the competence of graduates to the real needs of the economy;•there is a large group of senior professors who can no longer work at universities on a permanent basis, but could give high-quality courses for universities that do not have an academic staff in this area;•there are professional training centres that ensure the acquisition of professional competencies that are outside the traditional scope of universities, but are in demand in the real sector of the economy;•there is no possibility of obtaining information on the principle of ""one window"" for both corporate and individual consumers of educational services, on the one hand, and for those who provide such services, on the other hand, for mutual satisfaction of needs in the field of academic education and professional training.All the above is happening against the background of increasing requirements for the mobility of receiving educational services without changing the location of participants, on the one hand, and the possibility of receiving them at any time, on the other hand.There is a need to create a new ecosystem - the education mobility as a service. The possibilities of modern information technologies (artificial intelligent, blockchain technology and others) create the prerequisites for the new adaptive properties of education services, verification of the fact of receiving education and training in different education establishments both universities and other legal training centers, new forms of mobility in education and others. The architecture of the modern economy allows for the creation of networked information structures facilitating a direct linkage between student clients, education providers and teachers outside rigidly limited formal educational structures. Such transformations form new mobility requirements for education - receiving educational services without changing the participants’ location, possibility of receiving such services at any time and agility of education mobility.The understanding of the need to create a single European ecosystem, providing a variety of mobile services related to education and built on a competency-based approach, among the consortium members appeared in the process of disseminating and implementing the results of the Erasmus + ISECRET project (2015-2017). Participation as invited experts in seminars related to the development of standards for e-CF and TR ""ICTBoK"" helped to form the idea of the project and determine the requirements for the selection of project team members.Virtual cooperation in education mobility is the basis for the eMEDIATOR project idea. The proposal brings added value at the EU level by introducing an ecosystem of European educational mobility services that cannot be achieved through events held in one country.<< Objectives >>The aim of the project is creation an ecosystem model with demo portal used principals of service-based, competence-based, student-cantered education and business-academia partnerships for offering courses and various types of employment within one single European education and employment market.As a result of the project, the following should be achieved:•Meeting individual educational needs of students, lecturers and employees of businesses for the development of specific competences on the base of education mobility services during study in university and long life learning;•Promoting career development of lecturers which have their own values independently of academic institutions, mission and vision which might not be aligned with the values and career aspirations of lecturers. These lecturers might be demanded by some other institutions, and this project will help institutions and lecturers find each other. This exchange will facilitate talent development and talent exchange, which ultimately boosts European development;•Enabling lecturers to develop their professional competences in another European context when their local context does not allow for it at the moment, the local market is not interested in this particular set of knowledge of competences or is already saturated with professionals with such competences, which results in the local market inability to offer the context of the development of such competences at an academic institution or in a company. Ignoring such needs might not be advisable because universities continue to offer training that develops this particular set of competences or offered such training in the past, and therefore, should bear some degree of ethical responsibility for the implementation of such competences by graduates;•Developing the knowledge of competences that are required on the European market, not only on their local market. This knowledge is valuable because lecturers and academic institutions are supposed to train students not only for the current local context, but for the international, European, context of today and tomorrow;•Offering opportunities for industry to find specialists for their unique competence-based demand on the entire European common education market, without being restricted to generalized supply of knowledge constrained by their local market and local perception of development. Ultimately, this will boost macro-level economic development of the common European market;•Offering opportunities for individuals (students and lecturers) and corporate structures (higher education institutions and enterprises) to obtain and offer services from other European countries on the continuous or sporadic full-time or part-time basis while residing in one specific location in the European Union. This is the merge of education and business, studies and work into a single agile “eduwork” space created by online activities;•Providing academic institutions with an opportunity to recruit specialists with specific competences that they cannot find on the local market;•Creating an economic environment for implementing academic competences;•Implementing a competence-based model of higher education into a digital reality offering educational and employment opportunities;•Boosting educational competitiveness of small economies, such as Latvian, via open-access to various educational and business European markets via lecturer and academic institutions employment in other European countries, perhaps, mostly in the online part-time and project-based mode often on the continuous basis.More details about eMEDIATOR portal functionality and expected users can be found in Annex 3.3. Use Case Diagram.<< Implementation >>MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES:To achieve the project innovative goals the most modern project management technology will be implemented. The technology is based on Agile principle with extension of special management techniques for successful remote distributed project management based on evolutionary development strategy.DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES:To achieve the goal of the project, it is planned to obtain 6 project results (PR), each of which plans the implementation of 6 activities (iterations).- PR1. Portal architecture and conceptThe result of PR1 is the overall architecture of the portal and all of its components with the corresponding functionality. - PR2. Model of pedagogical components of the portalPR2 is focused on the development of new remote pedagogical tools in a digital environment of eMEDIATOR. - PR3. Organizational components of the portal PR3 is focused on the development of new organizational and management tools in a digital environment of eMEDIATOR. - PR4. Competence components of the portal The portal services provide mutual understanding between universities and industry based on a competence-based approach.- PR5. Technological components of the portal Remote mobility technologies imply the widespread use of new information technologies as a platform for the implementation of all services in the new digital ecosystem.- PR6. Demo implementation of developed eMEDIATOR components of the portal PR6 is realized demo implementation and validation of eMEDIATOR framework components.LEARNING, TEACHING, TRAINING ACTIVITIES:•Workshop with game-based training for study properties and possibilities of demo portal for participants for the following roles: students, lecturers, universities and training centers, employers, people with disabilities, people in remote areas and with other disadvantageous circumstances. •Development of training guidelines how to use the portal.•Development of a pilot Curriculum for a new multidisciplinary study course ""Digital Markets of Competences: Employment and Education"".DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES:•The summary of outcomes of the project will be shared incrementally upon the completion of each stage on the TTI web page and at the webpages of partners•The outcomes of the projects will be presented as a full ecosystem at the plenary section of the international conference “Research and Technology- Step into the Future (RaTSiF)” in April 2023. There will be organized a workshop on how to use the ecosystem and the developed guidelines for studies and professional development at the RaTSiF conferences in April and December 2023. •Within the framework of the project, applied guidelines on the development of DigCompEdu and e-CF competences (EU competence models) will be developed and published on the demo portal and TTI web page.•The outcomes of the project will be disseminated through 3 scientific papers published in Scopus indexed journals and books.•The main eMEDIATOR project results will be presented to wide European Education Society using Informatics Europe website and Erasmus+ projects results platform.FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES:•All project partners are participants in Erasmus Mobile process, which allows partner universities to easily integrate and test the portal's capabilities in their further practical activities.•The open architecture of the portal allows it to be modified and developed after the end of the project, not only by the project participants, but also by other third-party organizations. •The ecosystem of the portal creates a natural environment for cooperation between all the participants it is focused on (universities, business organizations, individual students and teachers), which contributes to its active use.• Suggestion development for a new project based on the eMEDIATOR Demo project results is expected to allow creation of an industrial implementation of the ecosystem of educational mobility in Europe.<< Results >>1. Model of education ecosystem as a service for transition of academically acquired competences to the work environment of real market.2. Demo portal of education mobility as a service with competence-based approach and with principle of ""one window"" administration which:•allows lecturers to find employment (full-time or part-time, continuous or constraint by one-time event) outside their institutions in other European countries;•allows students to find and enrol in courses of their interests that are not available in their home institution;•allows academic institutions to obtain online (often part-time) adjuncts from other European countries for specific courses and for the development of specific courses often at an affordable price and keep them for a longer period of time;•allows boosting competences of lecturers because lecturers will teach in another European country;•allows businesses to find professionals for their unique needs from other European countries, often for part-time needs.3. Demo portal as applied and useable solution promoting the development of a high-performing digital education ecosystem of the Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 of the European Commission.4. Methodology of game-based training for properties and possibilities of demo portal. 5. Games for participants for the following roles: students, lecturers, universities and training centers, employers, people with disabilities, people in remote areas and with other disadvantageous circumstances. 6. Training guidelines how to use the portal for education purposes at universities and training centers for members of academic staff and corporate structures – universities and employers.7. Curriculum for a new multidisciplinary study pilot course on the merge of the employment market and service education in the digital environment ""Digital Markets of Competences: Employment and Education"".National education and employment bodies will benefit from the portal for the following reason. Educational organizations will be able to refer educators and educational institutions to a portal providing practical, not just theoretical, information on the development of digital skills consistent with the European Commission digitalization policies, such as e-CF and DigCompEdu competences. Using the portal and conducting online training are going to develop educators’ digital skills of further and higher education on a much larger, international, scale and at much deeper level. For example, conducting classes might require using more advanced software, such as Microsoft Vision or Visual Studio, using UML or Python programming language, the rudiments of which might be learnt by anyone, especially because the portal will provide guidance on how to use such software or programming language for preparing and conducting online classes. Although information on how to use various software and learn programming languages is available online, it is not always tailored for the needs of educators. Therefore, educators are sometimes discouraged from advancing their digital and programming skills, on the one hand, and on the other hand, they might not be fully aware of how to use this very general knowledge effectively for teaching. This portal will provide informative resources with a program for development of such skills.The creation of such an ecosystem is an innovative approach to implementing the concept of Digital United Europe into the real life. The consortium team assumes, after the successful completion of the EMEDIATOR project, to contact the European Commission with a proposal to support the next stage of development to create an industrial implementation of an ecosystem of educational mobility in Europe for global use."