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The project consortium consists of 5 organisations: TTK UAS (Estonia), VGTU (Lithuania), MULTIKULTURA (Poland), UPSET (Croatia) and Kocaeli Provincial Directorate of National Education (Turkey). TTK UAS in Estonia is the main coordinator and in charge of the project. The tasks also include working on modelling and design and writing research papers. VGTU in Lithuania is engaged in the bulk of the work on modelling and design and writing research papers. MULTIKULTURA and UPSET creates a multiplier, carries out advertising and promoting educational material in Europe. Kocaeli Provincial Directorate in Turkey is engaged in modelling, graphic design and promotion of teaching material in Turkey and abroad.

The partners of the consortium have different backgrounds and they will bring their experience and skills to successfully develop virtual learning environments in technical higher education.

Tallinna Tehnikakõrgkool University of Applied Sciences (TTK UAS) is a state professional higher education institution located in Tallinn, Estonia.

TTK UAS offers competitive professional higher education in the field of engineering and is the largest university of applied sciences in Estonia, currently providing education in 16 fields of engineering within 6 institutes.

TTK University of Applied Sciences is the leader in developing professional higher education and applied research in the field of engineering in Estonia valuing innovation, entrepreneurship and efficiency.

Working closely together with employers allows us to provide education that is both practical and contributes to the development of the society.

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) is the leading higher education engineering institution located in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Established in 1956 it has over 10 200 students and 960 academic staff and carries out research and studies in 10 faculties.

Research priorities at the university correspond to the national and international priorities and trends especially in technical sciences.

The university's vision is to be a prestigious Lithuanian institution of higher education, the scientific and studies level of which conform to the best European technical universities' level.

The university is attractive for both Lithuanian and foreign scientists and students, is able to respond to the environmental challenges and has a great social importance to the national progress.

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) is the leading higher education engineering institution located in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Established in 1956 it has over 10 200 students and 960 academic staff and carries out research and studies in 10 faculties.

Research priorities at the university correspond to the national and international priorities and trends especially in technical sciences.

The university's vision is to be a prestigious Lithuanian institution of higher education, the scientific and studies level of which conform to the best European technical universities' level.

The university is attractive for both Lithuanian and foreign scientists and students, is able to respond to the environmental challenges and has a great social importance to the national progress.

Multikultura is a union of different institutions dealing with arts and education and ICT.

Multikultura specializes in exploitation of eLearning, multimedia education technology applying such methods as internet platforms, training films, educational television, and video games.

The programmers and graphic designers produce computer games based on a professional software UNITY.

They create three-dimensional and two-dimensional computer games in interactive contents, such as visualizations and animations, applications for web browsers, personal computers, video game consoles and mobile devices such as phones, tablets.

MULTIKULTURA pays attention to new technologies, is able to guarantee equity in education, because open technologies allow all individuals to learn anywhere, anytime, through any device, with the support of anyone.

Kocaeli Provincial Directorate of National Education is a governmental organization in charge of the planning and coordination of all kinds of educational and training activities from preschool, to secondary and adult education in Kocaeli Province.

The Directorate is responsible for taking all required actions in the field of education to realize a real increase in the management and organizational capacity of this largest governmental body of the Kocaeli Province.

In this context the Directorate supports school principals, teachers and other staff with variety of in-service training courses.

Additionally, it collaborates and co-operates with the other directorates and institutions in Kocaeli in many National and International projects.

The Association for Prevention of stigmatisation and education through theatre (UPSET) is a non-profit organisation founded in 2008 in Zagreb and was founded by a young, newly graduated students of social sciences and humanities.

UPSET was established to bring together all those interested in active work on overcoming the problems of social stigma, prejudice and discrimination in the Republic of Croatia.

The association is working on a social problem of stigmatisation, protecting human rights and combating social discrimination primarily through dramatic-action workshops – an innovative method that enables creation of the unique space in which it is possible to simultaneously work in the community and achieve scientific research, educational, and cultural-artistic goals.