The 2nd International Management Meeting TPM-2 was held on 23-26 May 2022 at the University of Turin as part of the “Digital Competences for Improving Security and Defense Education – DIGICODE” project. The meeting was attended by representatives of the partners of the consortium implementing the project, who represented:
     – the Military University of Technology in Warsaw – 2 people,
     – the University of Turin – 5 people,
     – the Military Technical Academy in Bucharest – 2 people,
     – the Vasil Levski National Military University in Shumen – 2 people.
In the first part of the meeting, the Universities that are part of the project consortium were presented. The profile of the University’s activity, laboratory base, and conducted fields of study were described. Possibilities of joint international cooperation in further scientific research were also presented. The next part of the meeting was devoted to summarizing the completed stages of the project, discussing the documentation regarding the completed stages, and indicating further directions of research work.
The first part presents the “Best Practice Handbook” developed as part of the first stage. The results of the survey conducted as part of the project on “Research on digital competencies of academic teachers before and during the Covid-19 pandemic” were discussed in detail. The results of the statistical analysis of the conducted study on basic information were also presented, mathematical analyzes of digital competencies held by teachers before and during the pandemic were shown, as well as the results of statistical inference related to the significance of differences in digital competences before and during the pandemic were characterized. In the next step, the results of benchmarking the education process during the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe were discussed and the best solutions in this regard were indicated. Finally, the methodology used in the SWOT analysis of the education process in Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic was presented and its results were discussed.
In the next part of the meeting, the characteristics of the “Teacher toolkit” handbook developed as part of the second stage of the project were presented and the e-learning platform was developed, the purpose of which is to improve the digital competencies of academic teachers in the implementation of the teaching process in the field of Defense and Security, was presented. All the elements on the platform related to the modules were discussed in detail: introduction to the course, announcements, cooperation, Digital Learning Environment, Advanced Computing Environment, Automatic Assessment System, Instructional Design, Problem Solving, Formative Assessment, Ready-to-use materials, Course Evaluation, Cybersecurity Guidelines.
The third part of the meeting was devoted to administrative issues related to the proper management and settlement of the project and the development of an interim report. Templates for quarterly reports were developed and the correctness of the settlement of the first two stages of the project was checked.
During the second day of the meeting, the goals and tasks for the next stages of the project were discussed. The dates of subsequent international meetings (necessary for proper project management) were set, as well as the dates of further mobilities, such as intensive training for teachers in the field of improving digital competencies and Summer Schools for students and teachers. Dates for the organization of Dissemination Events were also agreed upon. Detailed tasks were also set for individual project partners in accordance with the division of responsibility for the subsequent stages of the project.