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From June 22 to June 24, 2021, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, hosted the seventh European MOOC Stakeholder Summit (EMOOCs 2021) together with the eighth ACM Learning@Scale Conference. Due to the COVID-19 situation, the conference was held fully online. The boost in digital education worldwide as a result of the pandemic was also one of the main topics of this year’s EMOOCs. All institutions of learning have been forced to transform and redesign their educational methods, moving from traditional models to hybrid or completely online models at scale. The learnings, derived from practical experience and research, have been explored in EMOOCs 2021 in six tracks and additional workshops, covering various aspects of this field. In this publication, we present papers from the conference’s Experience Track, the Policy Track, the Business Track, the International Track, and the Workshops.

Abstract Started in 2008, the new Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) paradigm has brought challenges and innovation at all levels of education, aiming to respond to the most pressing learning needs, generated by the new development policies and the rapid evolution of technology. This paper reports on a project proposed by a group of universities and organizations specialized in training, research and consultancy with a view to develop and implement a learning ecosystem in entrepreneurship. The project is built on a package of MOOCs targeting the learning needs of young entrepreneurs in the context of „Smart cities and specializations” policies. The article presents the project concepts and the development and implementation steps, from MOOCs design, pilot phase, consultancy activities, impact study to proposals for national policies and accreditation. This work could be a starting point for developing new programmes and customized training courses on specific learning needs to support the „Smart cities” interventions.

The evolution of the energy market in Europe was influenced by the unprecedented development of the economy in 2007 and by the evolution of oil prices. From the analyses carried out in the energy field, we found that although American economy slowed down after September 11, 2001, the war in Iraq and then the other local conflicts in the Middle East forced an increase in oil consumption which led to an increase in the barrel price, which reached a level USD 145/barrel with the outbreak of the financial crisis. Against the background of the banking crisis and the sovereign debt crisis, the growth rate of the world economy has slowed down and the oil price has stabilized today at a level of 45-55 USD/barrel. Present in Romania through Petrom, OMV Austria is a multinational company whose main activity are exploration, production and marketing of oil and gas, petroleum refining and electricity generation. In this paper, we will assess the financial situation of the company on the European energy market into three periods: before, during and post-financial crisis, taking into account assets, liabilities, equity, performance indicators and market indicators.

The development in the energy market has shown that a large number of companies in this area are often confronted with the issue of investment, the issue of the purchase price of energy raw materials (oil, coal and gas), with problems related to the distribution of electricity to consumers, but especially with the problem related to the collection of energy bills. The global financial crisis has also affected the energy sector and the banking sector and, with the outbreak of the sovereign debt crisis, the crisis has also affected the budget sector. Against the background of the exit of the economy from the crisis, the energy industry has revived, although the problems related to the operational activity and the investment activity remained almost unchanged. The main concern of big companies in the energy industry is to permanently secure electricity consumers on the backdrop of companies’ stability and equilibrium. That is why our analysis will focus on comparing the results of the financial equilibrium indicators between two major energy companies in Europe, namely Transelectrica SA and Enel SpA during the pre-crisis, crisis and post crisis periods. As component of the entity analysis, the financial position is a constant concern of managers and aimes to ensure the necessary funds for the operational activity. In the industry in general and in energy industry in particular, the cycle of recovery is slowed down by the specific activity of these companies. That is why in the paper we analyze the equilibrium of two energy companies from Romania and Italy.

Financial equilibria of an enterprise is constantly a target of any manager as it depends on the viability and prosperity of the business. If in the past financial equlibria were seen only through comparison of static working capital and working capital requirements and its resultant net tresaury with the adoption of IAS and especially after the adoption of IFRSs, requires a new approach to namely a dynamic approach balances seen in terms of short-term liquidity, long term solvency terms and by linking performance with the company's cash flow. That is why in this paper we present the three components of the dynamic balance of tourism enterprises, namely: the liquidity balance, equilibrium and balance the performance solvency and cah flow.

Started in 2008, the new Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) paradigm has brought challenges and innovation at all levels of education, aiming to respond to the most pressing learning needs, generated by the new development policies and the rapid evolution of technology. This paper reports on a project proposed by a group of universities and organizations specialized in training, research and consultancy with a view to develop and implement a learning ecosystem in entrepreneurship. The project is built on a package of MOOCs targeting the learning needs of young entrepreneurs in the context of „Smart cities and specializations” policies. The article presents the project concepts and the development and implementation steps, from MOOCs design, pilot phase, consultancy activities, impact study to proposals for national policies and accreditation. This work could be a starting point for developing new programmes and customized training courses on specific learning needs to support the „Smart cities” interventions., https://www.edusoft.ro/brain/index.php/brain/article/view/687/765

In the paper the authors present a model aggregate rating based on credit-scoring models, banking models and their rating model. Multi-criteria approach and an aggregate model better capture business risk of the company.

In this paper the authors analyze the financial structure on two levels, namely time for charging and funding sources. For each tier financial structure is analyzed with a correlated indicators including overall indebtedness and financial autonomy.

During its evolution state, conceived as the main level of government, current developments across the global crisis period, being forced to reconsider their role to solve the problems currently faced by modern society. After the Second World War, when there is reconstruction and economic recovery, the state was considered the guarantor to ensure the welfare and prosperity of the population. Today the concept of welfare state is now criticized in the context of deepening economic and financial crisis, rising unemployment, rising taxes, lack of job stability. Regional development can help avoid EU entry in a new phase of the global financial crisis. Evaluation of regional development can be highlighted by economic analysis based on the balance sheet

In this paper, we conducted a research on the equilibrium of cash operating cycle phases, between two moments: cash inflow and cash outflow. The research methodology is based on system financial ratios of 20 companies listed on Bucharest Stock Exchange in the energy industry. In this research paper it’s demonstrate how the cash conversion cash ratios system conducts to the short term company’s equilibrium.

The paper analyzed the indicators that reveal the state of solvency of county government in the Northwest region of Romania. Indicators are analyzed and solvency ratio, debt, financial security rating and others.

The paper analyzed the indicators that reveal the state of solvency of county government in the Northwest region of Romania. Indicators are analyzed and solvency ratio, debt, financial security rating and others.

Each year a considerable amount of money is spent in the productionof several national and international University rankings that may deeplyinfluence the students’ enrollment. However, all such rankings are based almostexclusively on numerical indicators weakly related to the quality of the learningprocess and do not consider the perceptions of the “end users”, i.e. the learners.Recently, as part of the activity promoted by the ASLERD (Association forSmart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development), we have developed analternative approach to benchmark learning ecosystems. Such novel approach isbased on: a) the detection of the degree of satisfaction related to the levels ofthe Maslow’s Pyramid of needs, and b) the detection of indicators related withthe achievement of the state of “flow” by the actors involved in the learningprocesses. In this paper we report on the first implementation of suchbenchmarking approach that involved six European Campuses and more than700 students. The critical analysis of the outcomes allowed us to identify: a) theset of the most relevant indicators; b) a “smartness” axis in the plan of the firsttwo principal components derived by applying a Principal Component Analysis(PCA) to the spaces of the selected indicators.