IThe project arises to alleviate the problem of the application of technological accessibility in Higher Education Institutions (HEI). HEIs in Latin America have limited governance and resources for the implementation of institutional strategies for attention to diversity, particularly disability. One of the actions to be highlighted in the project is that aimed at the training of students from their entry to their job placement.In general EduTech seeks to improve Accessible Virtual Higher Education through the construction of management skills through the establishment of a Technological Accessibility Unit in the HEIs. These units will base their management procedures mainly through an Accessibility Volume, which consists of a compendium of six guides that are part of a framework. Such a framework will be tailored to each of the HEIs according to the needs diagnosis and will generate good implementation practices when carrying out pilot actions. At the end of the project, a set of recommendations and a sustainability plan will be generated that will ensure the continuity of the initiative.The most important results of the project will be the development of accessible open educational resources (OER), accessibility support tools for teachers and students, accessible open courses, contemplating the universal design for learning. As a boost to research, a cooperation network will be created that will allow the exchange of good practices and success stories. The results of the project will be available through a series of publications in congresses and impact journals.In the long term, the results of the project could impact on the educational and occupational insertion of students with disabilities by providing them with adequate training, involving the appropriation of knowledge and social coexistence.

EULAC ENERGYTRAN intends to strengthen the cooperation between the European Union and Latin American and the Caribbean research infrastructures to tackle a common challenge: how to get a clean, sustainable and just energy transition. This project pursues its goal through the exchange, generation and transfer of knowledge among entities from a multidisciplinary approach (technological, environmental, social) and through the support to the development of public policies and regulatory frameworks towards climate neutrality. This general goal will be achieved by four specific goals that respond the multidisciplinary approach, in tune with the complexity of the energy transition. Therefore, the project supports technological R&I to overcome the existing limitations of renewable energies but acknowledging these developments may have an environmental and social impact which must be addressed. This proposal wants to come up with ideas about how to achieve an energy transition compatible with environment protection and social justice. Energy transition is at the top of the political agendas of both regions, EU and LAC, so this project may contribute to consolidating it as a priority area of interregional scientific cooperation. This project will be carried out by a heterogenous and interdisciplinary consortium composed of eleven partners with wide presence in the EU and LAC. They include ERICS and an international organization, among other entities, from different areas of knowledge. This way the complexity of the energy transition is better tackled. Under this scheme, EULAC ENERGYTRAN will create a network of an interconnected and sustainable EU and LAC research infrastructures that contributes to energy transition by technological, social and sustainably strengthening the performance of entities through shared knowledge and close interactions among researchers. This common effort will mean a step forward, in both regions, to reach a society that needs to be resilient.

SmartSDK aims at creating a sustainable FIWARE ecosystem between Europe and Mexico by leveraging on existing FIWARE outcomes and building reference standards for common challenges. To fulfil this goal, SmartSDK will analyse successful FIWARE applications deployed in Europe and derive from these applications a set of FIWARE-based reference service architectures and reference data models to support the agile development of smart solutions for sustainability challenges of today world. In this perspective, SmartSDK will adopt existing Open Standards and Open Source solutions leveraging on results of European and Mexican initiatives based on FIWARE. By “standardizing” these efforts in a reference Software Development Kit (SDK) for smart applications, SmartSDK will foster a long-term collaboration between Europe and Mexico on FIWARE building on shared societal and economical challenges in Europe and Mexico. The collaboration will promote increased FIWARE adoption in Mexico as ecosystem for developing smart solutions, through the involvement of cities, innovative SMEs and startups. This will insure a wide impact in Mexico and Europe and will support the growth of new FIWARE-based businesses through the direct involvement of a network of around ICT 30 incubators and accelerators with access to more than 1000 ICT Innovative companies and startups and the support of Wayra Mexico (owned by Telefonica), the local branch of the worldwide largest accelerator. The participation of key FIWARE partners in Europe (TID, CREATE-NET) and Mexico (INFOTEC, ITESM), the support of European startups building on FIWARE technology (HOPU, UBI), and Future Internet researchers from Mexico (CECISE, CENIDET, INAOE) under the experienced guide of R&D consultancy specialist and key promoter of FIWARE internationalization (MARTEL) are a unique asset for ensuring SmartSDK success.

"ECALFOR project (Evaluation of teacher training in Latin America and the Caribbean. Guarantee of quality of education degrees) rests on two axes of action with high educational and social utility aligned with the strategic needs of higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean for training of compulsory education teachers:- Improvement of the disciplinary and pedagogical training of compulsory education teachers.- Quality assurance processes of higher education programs and international certification of degrees.The first of the axes is developed by carrying out an analysis of the characteristics and quality of the training that the future teachers of the compulsory education centers in primary and secondary education receive in the institutions of higher education (HEI) of the participating countries. The results of this analysis will be compared with teacher training in HEIs of the four participating countries of Europe, in order to create a transnational and harmonized model of teacher training and exchange good pedagogical practices, ""building capacity"" and synergies between the partners and energizing the internationalization and homologation of higher education of compulsory education teachers, and the qualifications that form it, in Latin America and the Caribbean.The second axe implements systems and protocols for quality assurance in teacher training qualifications, based on the creation of Quality Units in each of the Latin American and Caribbean HEIs. For this, technicians are trained in the HEIs of the partner countries with the advice of the Agency for the Quality of the University System of Galicia (ACSUG), guaranteeing this institution the application of quality assessment criteria supported by the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA)."