Our project is a response to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in a joint attempt to induce transformational change toward innovating curricula and promoting institutional reforms in HE Institutions in the 3rd country: Republic of Moldova (MD).It addresses the regional priority of sustainable growth and jobs, and fulfils the needs of local target group (students, teachers and practitioners), channels energy to generate solutions for lasting effects, improves peer-learning and transfer of experience, and strengthens the capacities of HEIs to be more responsive, especially in recent trends of a decline in human development, and economic inequalities exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis.The intervention mobilizes appropriate resources to accelerate the innovation capability of 5 (five) HEIs from the Northern, Central and Southern parts of MD through developing, testing, and adaptation of Innovative STEAM bachelor curriculum in Business & Administration enriched with active business involvement and European good practices. These are translated into impactful, measurable and scalable results and enhance the relevance of education with regard to the offer and uptake of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths (STEAM) skills, address the issues of unemployment, equipping local beneficiaries with competences for innovation and sustainable growth, as per:•71 local firms involved in need analysis and set up of Innovative STEAM curriculum.•240 students in B&A benefited from Innovative STEAM curriculum, per phase, by which 8 % disadvantages students.•120 trainee students enrolled in modernized internships, per phase. •60 academic staff from MD with STEAM skills and knowledge of new university governance systems.These address the offer and uptake of local STEAM skills, in coherence with national priorities set by Moldova National Strategy for Education 2030, and contributing thereof to the fulfillment of overarching priority set by EU.

AGRUMIG proposes an integrated approach to migration governance to address the two way relationship between labour mobilility and changes in agriculture and the rural sector. Migration creates challenges for rural ‘sending’ communities in low and middle income countries, yet it can also be transformative. AGRUMIG aims to engage in a comparative analysis of seven countries to analyse the economic, institutional, cultural and agro-ecological factors which shape these relationships. It will go on to identify the range of governance interventions which can harness migration to stimulate sustainable and gender equitable growth in agriculture and reduce the distress associated with migration. The project will firstly use a survey and participatory tools to explore the drivers of migration and the impacts on the agricultural/rural sector. A Qualitative Comparative Analysis will identify contexts through which unique relationships are realised. It will secondly engage with the policies and practices of diverse governance actors through dialogue, literature reviews and interviews to understand how they mediate the migration-agrarian/rural change interface. It will thirdly, engage in an iterative process of dialogue with stakeholders to identify frameworks for integrated migration governance which harness the positive impacts. A key contribution to the work programme is the identification of strategies to promote safe and regular migration through supporting change in sending regions. AGRUMIG will outline longer term evidence based governance solutions, supported by comparative analysis and tangible indicators, which are sensitive to the role of migration in larger livelihood systems as well as the contexts through which favourable impacts can be captured. It will analyse existing governance regimes to build upon, including labour treaties or EU partnership agreements, national migration or agrarian policies, overseas aid, or grassroots initiatives by diasporas or return