MannaTeam: a case of interinstitutional collaborative learning and Education 5.0

Abstract

This case addresses the challenge of developing a novel educational strategy that promotes hard and soft skills using different types of emerging technologies. We achieved this with a horizontal collaborative learning strategy, between universities, and vertical collaborative learning, between universities and schools, organized by the MannaTeam network. In addition to sharing experiences, knowledge, laboratories and materials among network partners, we popularized our vision of education for the 21st century – Education 5.0, and invested in a project of female empowerment, showing society the reasons and impacts of the gender gap in technological areas. The success of our contemporary vision of education and the efforts of MannaTeam motivate us to continue. There is much to be done to stimulate innovation in education and the broad understanding that ability has no gender.