Disabled students have limited access to HE in India and Bangladesh. This project aims to tackle this issue by making accessible HE OERs and MOOCs, and personalisation using AI, that will enable better provision of open distance learning for those that experience architectural barriers.DIVERSASIA will build capacity of 2 HEI in India (P2+P3) and 2 HEI in Bangladesh (P4+P5) to integrate these students that have disabilities using know-how and ian nclusive education toolkit developed by experienced inclusive education experts from UK (P1), BG (P6+P10), BE (P11), LV (P8), TR (P7) and RS (P9) including:-DIVERSASIA handbook which will suggest strategies that overcome the issues of inclusion, diversity and cultural differences in 21st century HEIs in Asia.-INNOVATIVE TOOLKIT with guidelines, checklists, best/good practices to implement universal design of learning.-INNOVATIVE ASESSMENT AND VALIDATION STRATEGY for OERs (SCORM) and MOOCs to review and assess their level of accessibility and to enable further revision to reach certain accessibility level. THE PROJECT RESULTS AND IMPACT WILL ENSURE THE PROVISION OF:- Inclusive education guidelines consisting of flexible, broad educational and extracurricular options.- Student-centred, personalised/individualized instruction and course selection based on assessment of engagement using AI technologies.- All written materials including OERs and MOOCs which are provided to students will be validated and further enhanced based on guidelines and recommendations provided by a dedicated toolkit.- Participating universities from India and Bangladesh (and through their national networks for dissemination and exploitation) will become fully accessible in terms of provision of digital content - this will further enable the improvement of distance courses that will allow students with disabilities to access HE (especially those that experience architectural and physical barriers to access in HE).

The aim of SARASWATI 2.0 is to identify best available and affordable technologies for decentralized wastewater treatment with scope of resource/energy recovery and reuse in urban and rural areas. Further, it addresses the challenge of real time monitoring and automation. The previous SARASWATI project has shown that a number of decentralized wastewater treatment plants in India do not perform properly and that there are few plants that would meet the more stringent standards as those proposed by the Indian Government in 2015. Thus, in many cases not even CATNAP (the cheapest available technology narrowly avoiding prosecution) has been applied, leading to high pollution levels. The SARASWATI project therefore proposed to adopt the principle of BAT (best available technologies) in a more flexible way, adapting the definition of BAT to the local context, based on complementing the treatment efficiency with the costs of the treatment technology and affordability, and local context in the location of application. This will allow to identify BATs with more stringent standards if required and suitable for the location. Thereby, ten pilot technologies in 7 Indian States demonstrating enhanced removal of organic pollution (BOD, TSS), nutrients (particularly Nitrogen), organic micro-pollutants and pathogens have been proposed (WP1). Further, all pilots allow for resource recovery contributing to the principles of a circular economy and will undergo a comprehensive performance assessment (WP2) complemented by an extended sustainability assessment informed by recent ISO standards (WP4). This will allow identification of BATs for the Indian context. In addition, suitable automation and control strategies will be tested and recommended, taking into account the presence of operators and their level of knowledge and expertise (WP3). Finally, WP5 is dedicated to dissemination and exploitation of results. The consortium is comprised of a well-balanced EU-Indian team of 17 partners.