EURASIA is a capacity building project in higher education aimed at strengthening the academic ties between higher-educational institutions (HEI) coming from 4 program countries (Bulgaria, Poland, France and Italy) with record of excellence in the area of the capacity building and 4 HEI from 2 partner countries (China and India) with complementarity of expertise. In addition, an SME based in London will provide special services to the consortium in line with its expertise. The project faces the challenges and needs to establish, update and modernize curricula in EU studies in a globalizing world and refers to the strategies priorities of the EU Global strategy 2016. EURASUA presents an equal opportunity for capacity building of all partner institutions with its shared domain of ideas, educational know how and resources, managed through transparent procedures and empowering of all stakeholders. The project activities include the elaboration of original, innovative and methodologically grounded modules and courses on European Studies, upgrade and modernization of existing courses and developing unique ones addressing regional cooperation. The project envisages a coherent plan of training, expert meetings, joint development of teaching materials (in the framework of 3 core modules each containing 4-5 courses at both the B.A. and M.A. level), their piloting in India and China, additional extracurricular activities and the dissemination and exploitation of the project’s results that will make the new teaching content a permanent part of the curriculum in the two partner countries. All that will widen the dialogue between Europe and Asia in the framework of recent EU documents encouraging such collaboration especially through academic ties, joint research projects and students and staff mobility and exchanges.

Multilingualism defines Indian cultural landscape and is recognized as both a strength and a challenge to deal with. In a country with over 325 languages and 25 scripts as listed by the Anthropological Survey of India, English remains an aspirational language creating a base for its economic success. However, the country is caught between learning this foreign language that heralds economic success and local languages that hold cultural richness, rootedness. The situation also divides the urban and rural India in terms of language proficiencies. Caught between these two extremities of having education in either only a local/regional language or completely in a foreign language leading to slow death of language, the country looks for a fair and balanced approach for the education system to respond. Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) – a methodology adopted in Europe mainly to encourage bilingualism or multilingualism comes across as an ideal solution at this point for Indian education system to adapt. Therefore, a Consortium with HEIs in India and Europe proposes the project CLIL@India. CLIL@India plans the following actions:1. Establish an international inter-institutional CLIL Resources and Training Centre at Manipal; 2. Establish satellite centres for CLIL at all participating HEIs in the project for spill-over effect; 3. Develop CLIL training materials in Hindi, Punjabi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil and English;4. Develop and continuously update the webportal CLILatIndia.in to provide open access to CLIL study materials in India; 5. to implement the first CLIL academic modules at the Indian partner HEIs; 6. To disseminate information about CLIL methodologies developing open intensive courses and events; 6. To develop an evidence-based white-paper based on the impact of CLIL on the linguistic skills of pupils attending secondary education in India.

Developed under the aegis of the United Nations Development Programme in the post-Cold War era, the idea of human security has offered an alternative discourse to traditional approaches to security, therein shifting the focus from the state to the individual. Recent years have witnessed the interlinked negative impacts of climate change across the world, the rise of violent extremism and radicalisation, regional conflicts, failing states, forced migrations & human rights violations. The three fundamental dimensions of human security – freedom from fear, freedom from want and freedom from indignity- resonate with the goals and values that the European Union (EU) has espoused right from its inception. It could thus be inferred that the human security paradigm has been the centrepiece of most EU interventions in the past, and is today, the leitmotif of the European Union Global Strategy (EUGS). The EUGS delineates its vision to action trajectory in the following priority areas – security and defence, building societal resilience at home and abroad, public diplomacy, integrated approach to conflict and crisis, cooperative regional orders and rules-based governance.It is against this rationale that the 80-hour module themed– The European Union and the Human Security Paradigm, will endeavor to explore the interplay between the human security paradigm and EU actions under the aforementioned sections of the EUGS. The current Covid-19 crisis has further emphasized the human security dimension and has presented both challenges and opportunities for the EU to leverage the advantage of its core principles of solidarity and humanism through actions at home and abroad. The EUHSP module would be embedded in the courses like – Area Studies- Europe and US elective, IR theories and key concepts, Human Rights and Peace Studies, Global Common Goods, International Security, and others, offered under the two-year Master of Arts programme by the Symbiosis School of International Studies.

Antibiotic resistance is rising to dangerously levels in all parts of the world. New resistance mechanisms are emerging and spreading globally, threatening our ability to treat common infectious diseases. A project commissioned by the British government has released estimates of the near-future global toll of antibiotic resistance: 10 million deaths per year, more than cancer, and at least 124 trillion euros in sacrificed gross national product. Without urgent prevention and risk management actions, we are heading for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and minor injuries would kill. Following WHO Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance and the UN Heads of State political declaration on antimicrobial resistance, Indian and European policy makers has designed framework national plans fighting antibiotics resistance. PREVENT IT consortium has conducted a preliminary study that has highlight an alarming deficiency of academic modules on antibiotics prevention and risk management, and a total absence of awareness in the Indian society. As response, PREVENT IT plans to I) permanently introduce interdisciplinary curricula on antibiotics resistance - prevention and risk management – in per-existent studies programs – differentiating students’ target audience; II) Disseminate as open educational resource, a MOOC for students, health sciences experts, and civil society organizations working with health in rural communities; II) Conduct nine regional dissemination events; III) Involve new stakeholders with the organization - in different area of India - of sixteen workshops and one symposium; IV) Create social media campaign to increase awareness in Indian society; V) To ensure sustainability, Lab for regular training in projects’ proposals design. VI) During the last month of the funded period, to provide new impetus: establish the European-Indian Network for Antibiotics Resistance Prevention and Risk Management.

"With new challenges also at hand of mixed human migratory pattern, the call is loud and clear for India, Myanmar and Malaysia to equip themselves with more empathetic refugee and migrant policies and start to develop a national legislative framework that will protect asylum seekers, refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) based on international norms and regulations. Without the law, refugees lack legal status, lack basic human rights, and are vulnerable to exploitation. They are trafficked, subject to arbitrary arrest and detention, left destitute and homeless, and on top of it all, are vilified as ""illegal immigrants. Without the law there is no solution and refugees are left in indefinite limbo. For these reasons, the project will aim to push for the adoption in Partner Countries of a meaningful, comprehensive, domestic legal framework that is consistent with international standards and ensures refugees are actually protected. It will do so by: 1) Improving legal practitioners’ knowledge and expertise on International law and forced migration via the development and delivery of an LLM program to help them become competent in the implementation of the International and national refugee legislative framework in their Partner countries 2) Increasing the capacity of the academic staff of Partner HEIS and improve their level of competences and skills through the exchange of specialised knowledge on the subject area and through the development of a LLL Programme customized to their needs and needs of the 21st century and 3) Enriching the modernisation of Partner HEIs through the promotion of transnational cooperation in the field of international law and forced migration data analysis on domestic developmental concerns and by exchanging good practices in the subject area between EU, PC HEIs, legal practitioners, social actors, European and international refugee organisations and relevant policy makers."