InfPrev4frica project aims to capacitate Nursing HEIs from SSA, to facilitate the development nursing students competences in healthcare-associated infections prevention and control, in response to the need to improve the quality of healthcare in this area, increasing its safety and effectiveness, one of the world-wide health priorities that gains special importance in this African region. Intervening on education process of the future professionals simultaneously strengthening the link between the academy and present professionals, this project proposes to improve the quality of HE in SSA, enhancing its relevance for the labor market and society, in line with their competences and skills level and potential. To this, an innovative nursing curricula, focused on infection prevention and control, innovating in contents selection and approach, learning objectives and on the improvement of partner's teaching/learning pedagogical methods/tools, will allow the development of high level thinking competences, arising nursing students’ innovative and entrepreneurial spirit. Aligned with the undeniable fact that education of health professionals’ design involves the accordance with the health needs of the society where care is provided, the main outcome of this project is an innovative pedagogical model that formally addresses this scopus in SSA cultural and healthcare reality, as for patient safety to result in safe practice and improved patient outcomes, it has to be meaningful to the students. To achieve this Model, along with innovative methods and tools, namely in simulation-based learning, the project main activities are the design, piloting, evaluating and implementing the InfPrev4frica Model and Simulation Scenarios, resulting in InfPrev4frica E-book. Up to 70 nursing professors, 200 nurses/healthcare stakeholders and 1200 nursing students will be introduce into this new pedagogical conceptions, that will continue to be disseminated by InovSafeCare Community in SSA.

The HayKa project significantly improves the contribution of Malagasy research to sustainable development through the strengthening of the capacities of 9 doctoral schools (ED) in terms of scientific quality, supervision and governance. Three specific objectives contribute to this improvement:1. To strengthen the links between academic research and the needs of the socio-economic world for employability (link between research and society) 2. Strengthen the capacities and internationalization of Doctoral Schools (international link) 3. Strengthen the links between the different Doctoral Schools (structural link of doctoral research on a national scale, notion of network). The expected results are (i) the reinforcement of institutional capacities (management of doctoral schools), (ii) the reinforcement of collective and individual capacities (creation of a pool of Malagasy trainers, improvement of the transversal training of doctoral students), for a better scientific level and a higher employability rate of doctoral students. In addition, the project will develop an interdisciplinary network of Malagasy Doctoral Schools, with harmonized procedures, conducive to a better insertion of graduates in the socio-economic world. In addition to the complementarity of the partners and the expertise of the universities and institutes of the North, the strategy of the project combines innovative teaching techniques (hybrid and based on collective intelligence in interdisciplinarity) allowing the partners to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to sustainably strengthen their capacities, and meet the ODDs. In addition to the training sessions provided, the project will organize key meetings to achieve the objectives (Doctoriales, students-companies meeting, summer school ...), create a platform dedicated to the doctorate and provide participants with a number of tools (charter of the doctorate, international joint PhD program).

The Covid-19 pandemic has come, in 2020 and 2021, to confirm even more the importance of the digitalisation of administrations, companies, and of course higher education institutions. African countries are committed to the digital movement, nevertheless, they are doing so at a slower pace. This is certainly linked to economic, cultural, and political factors, but also to a lack of knowledge and capacity of HEIs to renew their teaching practices through the prism of digital technology. In this project, we dig deep into this problem of digital divide and propose à contribution to its reduction. We base our ideas and orientations on previous studies that have clearly delineated the critical need but also the challenges faced by African HEIs to adapt to current and future labour market demands and student expectations. We thus propose a strategic framework to accompany digitalisation. This framework is culturally as well as functionally adaptable to avoid a one-size-fits-all solution. The transfer of good practice from Europe to Africa is important to serve this objective, for this we propose the creation of digital centres baring the mission of growing all stakeholders involved in the mission of higher education in digital and soft skills. We liaise with other societal stakeholders for knowledge transfer by establishing communities of practice and digital divers. Our dissemination approach aims to influence towards sectoral change in Africa and a better tackling of widening participation in Europe.

Le projet DOCET4AFRICA contribue à favoriser la coopération Europe - Océan Indien (objectif global) à travers la mise en réseau et l'échange d'expertises entre les EES UE et ACP, la mise en œuvre des plans stratégiques nationaux et régionaux dans le domaine du développement durable et conservation de la biodiversité et la création d'une offre éducative adaptée aux exigences du marché du travail.Partenariat: Universités de Turin (ITA) et de la Réunion (FR), Universités de Antananarivo, Tamatave et Mahajanga (MG) et Université des Comores (KM), avec le soutien de partenaires associés publiques et privés, y compris les décideurs politiques.Objectifs spécifiques:O1. Accroître les capacités des autorités nationales et des EES à moderniser leur système d’enseignement supérieur au niveau doctorale.O2. Contribuer à l’amélioration de l’accès au marché du travail à travers un enseignement supérieur de qualité en termes d’offre académique améliorée.O3. Promouvoir la sensibilisation interculturelle et la compréhension des populations locales sur les bénéfices liés à une gestion durable des ressources naturelles.Résultats:R1.Compétitivité des EES ACP augmenté en termes de réseau international, national et régional et gestion efficace des doctorats internationaux.R2.Offert scientifique au niveau doctoral amélioré au sein des EES des Pays partenaires dans le domaine du développement durable.R3.La communauté locale et les OSC sont sensibilisées sur les thématiques liées à la gestion des ressources naturelles.R4.Le projet est géré efficacement, suivi en permanence et évalué de manière indépendante.Volets (Work Packages):WP1 - Renforcement des capacités du personnel administratif et académique des EES et Ministères de l’éducation des Comores et Madagascar dans la gestion des doctorats EU-ACPWP2 - Développement du nouveau programme de doctorat international de l’Océan Indien ACP – UEWP3 - Sensibilisation, capitalisation et visibilitéWP4 - Gestion et coordination efficaces