Major changes are needed to develop sustainable agricultural and food systems in Vietnam, Philippines and Sri Lanka as large proportion of these countries agricultural growth has stemmed from expanded or more intensive use of land and other natural resources, and relatively heavy use of fertilizer and other agro-chemicals increasing the risk of residues in food. Agroecology could be an important approach to meet this general objective - sustainable agricultural and food systems, - as it designs, develops, and promotes the transition towards biodiversity and low external input-based, socially sound farming and food systems. Thus, the CDAE project will create a new MSc programme in a specialized academic area and key regulatory/policy issue, namely “Agroecology” that is as much absent from Partner HEI graduate and postgraduate programmes as it is needed, address this absence and the needs of the region and incorporate ecological principles and knowledge into the study of cropping and farming systems so that professionals are well prepared for the future design and management of a sustainable agriculture and organic farming techniques. In addition, the “Agroecology Labs” that will be established in the participating universities will promote sustainable agriculture and will act as foci of research innovation and cooperation in the area. Moreover, the Agroecology Knowledge Hubs will be a powerful tool for the initial and continued training of the students and academics and will be used in combination with the Labs to ensure continued research cooperation among European and Asian HEIs as well as updating the staff’s knowledge and skills.

The Republic of the Philippines faces one serious and longstanding problems of providing adequate employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for its young men and women. Even in times of strong economic growth, unemployment and underemployment has remained a significant problem for younger people. The PATHWAY project “Promoting the employAbility and enTrepreneurship of High education graduates through innovative WAYS in the Philippines” falls under the Category D of the Erasmus + programme aiming at strengthening the “University-enterprise cooperation”. PATHWAY goes in line with the Capacity Objective of promoting entrepreneurship spirits and employability opportunities of students and graduates.PATHWAY project aims at enhancing the entrepreneurship and employability culture of Higher Education institutions in the Philippines to meet labour market needs and governmental reforms.PATHWAY project will do so by achieving the 2 specific objectives:-To consolidate the entrepreneurship and employment structures at HEIs by fostering and boosting university-enterprise synergies,-To accompany CHEDs reforms on building up an entrepreneurship culture at national level through the implementation pilot initiatives and policy recommendations.PATHWAY partners will reach the specific objectives by accomplishing the following outputs: Output 1: Paving the way for the construction of a Employment and Entrepreneurship culture. Output 2: Enhancement of managerial and administrative staff capacities in dealing with E/E issues. Output 3: Pilots actions implemented in support of E/E opportunities. Output 4: Drafting of Policy Strategy for the business-academia cooperation.

This is a capacity building initiative involving 5 EU partners (of which 4 HEIs) from Bulgaria, Greece, Finland and UK, and 10 Partner Country (PC) universities: 4 from India, 2 from Philippines, 2 from Nepal and 2 from Sri Lanka.Its overall objective is to build the capacity of PC HEIs to embed graduates' employability in their core activities and to facilitate the development of student talent through co-curricular and extra-curricular innovation activities involving key stakeholders, with a view to contributing to youth employment, inclusive growth and sustainable development.The project has the following specific objectives:-To support the uptake and mainstreaming of entrepreneurship education and innovation training in PC HEIs and to promote the integration of talent development into research and innovation activities in collaboration with external stakeholders (enterprises, non-profits, public sector)-To create sustainable institutional structures and ICT tools enabling student co-creation in research and innovation and stakeholder co-creation in talent development-To build PC HEIs’ capacities for delivering innovation and entrepreneurship training in view of building students’ employability skills.The capacity building intervention has three key dimensions: - enabling an institutional culture of strategic planning and change in the direction of improving the relevance of education- launching Talent Co-Creation Labs for co-curricular and extracurricular live projects combining student and stakeholder co-creation in innovation and engaging students with the world outside the university- developing tools and teaching resources to support staff and faculty implementing the new tasks.All dimensions seek to enable a re-design of students’ learning experience, introduce a challenge-driven learning model, improve graduates’ employability skills, strengthen PC HEIs’ interactions with business, and involve external stakeholders in student talent development.

"ANTENA is a structural project that aims to increase the academic quality and research of universities in the Philippines through the development of internationalisation capacities. The ANTENA project will first of all consolidate the Internationalisation structure and build human capacities of 10 HEIs by means of targeted training programmes. Secondly ANTENA will accompany the governance reforms of CHED and enhance international networking through strategic actions in key areas of the Philippine higher education system.The ANTENA project will achieve the above-mentioned objectives by: 1. Increased inter-institutional cooperation and sharing of good practices via the needs analysis and Institutional Building: 1 Study Need Analysis of Internationalisation produced, 2 site visits to UA&UM workshops for Top and Managerial staff implemented and 10 IROs fully equip and ruining;2. Strengthening of Internationalisation of higher education system through the promotion of HEIs governance reforms. 2 National Round tables carried out (One by CHED), Internationalisation Strategic Plans developed for 10 HEIs in the Philippines and the drafting of a ""Policy Roadmap for the implementation of strategies on the Internationalisation of Philippines HE"" under the leadership of the Ministry-CHED;3. Enhancement of managerial and administrative staff capacities in dealing with internationalisation issues: set of 6 comprehensive training materials developed and 2 training completed. 20 replication workshops conducted and ready to be implemented by non-partners HEIs in the Philippines;4. Establishment of a National Network and conducting 2 Philippines Internationalisation of Higher Education Conferences, and promoting the participation of the ANTENA Network in higher education international events;5. Increase public awareness and understanding of Internationalisation within higher education institutions."