Flooding is a threat to communities in both Malaysia and the UK. Computer modelling is a widely used approach to working out which areas are vulnerable to flooding. This allows government agencies, NGOs and communities to work out how to invest time and resources to protect areas at risk. Understanding of the causes of flooding has increased rapidly in recent years. We now have good data on environmental factors like rain and temperature which can influence where floods will happen. There are now good models of climate change. If we work out where flooding is going to happen, computer models can now be used to work out how flood waters will move around cities and which buildings will flood. One problem that still remains is to include the complexities of real life in these models. We currently assume that the same flood will always lead to the same consequences. This makes models quicker to run, but we know it's not how flooding works. If floods occur just before harvests they can destroy entire crops, but if they occur when fields are empty the costs can be very low. If one flood follows another in quick succession, facilities like hospitals and power stations could remain damaged from the first flood, meaning that the second one has much greater impact on people's lives. With research into how communities are affected by flooding, which takes into account the timing of floods as well as how closely associated they are in time, a genuinely new approach to flood risk could be developed. Malaysia is a very good place to develop these models. Its economy is developing quickly, so new approaches have the opportunity to be tested in a changing environment. Similarly, climate in Malaysia includes monsoons, which are a good test of model ability for environmental modellers. From a development perspective, Malaysia is a success story which is rapidly transitioning towards developed status, but still has large numbers of people at risk and in large areas, development can be set back by severe floods. Lastly, following severe floods in 2014, there is a renewed interest in developing innovative flood risk approaches in Malaysia. Our approach to developing a new flood model in Malaysia would make use of the different experts in our group. Bringing together experts from the UK and Malaysia, both of which have invested significantly in flood research in the last decade, would allow us to combine skills from experts with different specialities. Our economists will use economic modelling to understand how different sectors of the economy might change in future and how they might be exposed to flooding. Our group's environmental scientists will use existing computer models of rivers to show where river levels are likely to become high enough to generate flooding. Our flooding engineers will apply new hydraulics models to show how flood waters move once they have left the rivers. Experts in combining computer model outputs will combine each of these into a new model of flood risks. This new model will be used to find the effects of scenarios (factors we can't control such as climate change and increasing urbanisation) and strategies (factors we can control such as new flood defences and warning systems) which will help to evaluate some of these strategies for their effectiveness and value for money. This will allow future flood planning to be better targeted within Malaysia. We hope that Malaysia will act as a good case study for this research and that it would be taken up by other countries in South East Asia and around the world.

Considerable nutritional challenges continue to exist in Southeast Asia (SEA), despite the encouraging economic development. Double burden of malnutrition and obesity, associated with a rapidly increasing burden of diabetes and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) continue to coexist in the same populations. This can lead to major adverse consequences for health, performance and productivity, and economic development. Early nutrition and lifestyle during pregnancy and early childhood (the first 1000 days of life after conception) is a major modulating factor of long-term health, performance, and disease risks. Improving the knowledge and practice in early nutrition is particularly important in SEA which is currently coping with the double burden of disease, with high rates of both malnutrition and obesity/diabetes. Therefore, there is a burning need to establish and implement science-based, quality education that widely reaches health care professionals (HCPs e.g. obstetricians/gynaecologists, paediatricians) who can influence early nutrition and lifestyle in their clients. On a daily basis, HCPs in SEA must address a whole range of different aspects which require up to date knowledge and skills for its practical application. e-learning is an effective and sustainable tool to widely reach HCPs with very low barriers. ENeA SEA aims at addressing these issues by offering innovative e-learning, jointly developed by EU, Thai and Malaysian partners, to meet the educational requirements in a first step of Thai and Malaysian doctors in practice in the field. ENeA SEA has produced a dedicated curriculum, targeted e-learning modules in English, Thai and Malay languages and individualized training packages to specifically meet the user’s needs based on automated content matching processes (mass customisation). Most of these modules have been translated into Thai and Malay languages for a wider outreach. Efforts were made to get these modules incorporated into the Thai and Malaysian accreditation system under sustainability measures of this project and the ENeA SEA curriculum has been approved to be the CME activity of the Royal College of Pediatricians of Thailand and parts of the CPD system in Malaysia. Thus, ENeA SEA is suitable for professional sub-specialisation and for integration in pre-and postgraduate study programmes. It will now serve as the basis for future expansion to other HCP groups and other SEA countries.Apart from achieving six e-learning modules in which the contents are customized to the SEA region, the project emphasizes the capacity building for consortium partners. The academic staff of the consortium partners and Distant Learning Expert Board (DLEB) team were trained in the process of curriculum development, e-learning module adaptation, and new module generation. The e-learning equipment has been purchased and used during the project lifetime and will continue to be used after the project ends. Therefore, the partner institutions have built their own transferable capacity in creating the e-learning materials which is very valuable and relevant in higher education settings. In addition, this project has generated the partnership and networking between academic institutions not only in Europe and SEA but also among SEA partners, as well as across various academic disciplines (i.e. academic lecturer, clinician, researcher, DLEB member, dietitian). This partnership will sustain after the project completion through spin-off projects, publications and co-fundings under the sustainability plan.

MARINE project involves the development of a comprehensive mechanism combining capacity building and institutional development for marine ecosystem monitoring, capitalizing on the relevant expertise and know-how from EU higher education institutions and organizations. The institutional development component includes mainly the creation of equipped labs and infrastructure in each partner country that will allow the monitoring of marine ecosystems to be initiated according to recognized protocols and to be continued after the end of the project at the participating HEIs in all Partner Countries, while the capacity building component consists of the combination of:- Theoretical training via distance learning and face-to-face teaching in each partner country - Practical training in marine ecosystem monitoring in each partner country and in EU countries

The Malaysian wood and furniture industry is one of the major contributors to the Malaysian economy, estimated in nearly €4bn of exports and about 300,000 workers. In fact, in 2017 Malaysia was ranked as the 9th World country in furniture exports and 17th in production. Consequently, the National Timber Industry Policy 2009-2020 established innovation and technology, and human capital development as the main challenges of the industry. Moreover, the blueprint for the Malaysian National Industry 4.0 policy framework is expected to have a focus on the training aspects and update workers knowledgeLikewise, the Malaysia Education Blueprint 2015-2025 was launched by the Ministry of Education whose prime aim was to address the mismatch in the supply and demand of graduates, with employers reporting the lack of knowledge, skills and attitudes required in graduatesFollowing all these recommendations, MAKING4.0 will establish a European-Malaysian collaborative consortium integrated by 4 Malaysian and 3 European Universities, the Wood and Furniture Technological Centre of Murcia (Spain), and the Malaysian Timber Industry CouncilMAKING4.0 aims to develop an innovative Master on Industry4.0 technologies for engineers of wood and furniture smart factories that will update High Education and increase competitiveness of the Malaysian manufacturing industryTo achieve this objective, different technical activities will be carried out: 1. Analysis and comparison of the current HE offer and wood industry in Malaysia and Europe 2. Definition of the training path, learning content structure and methodological aspects 3. Development of training materials and guides for trainers 4. Performance of a test analysis to validate and accredit the Master courseAs a final result, MAKING4.0 will procure a new Master in Malaysian universities related to Industry4.0 and the woodworking industry, teached in English and with a high impact on the Malaysian HE and manufacturing industry

Flooding is a threat to communities in both Malaysia and the UK. Computer modelling is a widely used approach to working out which areas are vulnerable to flooding. This allows government agencies, NGOs and communities to work out how to invest time and resources to protect areas at risk. Understanding of the causes of flooding has increased rapidly in recent years. We now have good data on environmental factors like rain and temperature which can influence where floods will happen. There are now good models of climate change. If we work out where flooding is going to happen, computer models can now be used to work out how flood waters will move around cities and which buildings will flood. One problem that still remains is to include the complexities of real life in these models. We currently assume that the same flood will always lead to the same consequences. This makes models quicker to run, but we know it's not how flooding works. If floods occur just before harvests they can destroy entire crops, but if they occur when fields are empty the costs can be very low. If one flood follows another in quick succession, facilities like hospitals and power stations could remain damaged from the first flood, meaning that the second one has much greater impact on people's lives. With research into how communities are affected by flooding, which takes into account the timing of floods as well as how closely associated they are in time, a genuinely new approach to flood risk could be developed. Malaysia is a very good place to develop these models. Its economy is developing quickly, so new approaches have the opportunity to be tested in a changing environment. Similarly, climate in Malaysia includes monsoons, which are a good test of model ability for environmental modellers. From a development perspective, Malaysia is a success story which is rapidly transitioning towards developed status, but still has large numbers of people at risk and in large areas, development can be set back by severe floods. Lastly, following severe floods in 2014, there is a renewed interest in developing innovative flood risk approaches in Malaysia. Our approach to developing a new flood model in Malaysia would make use of the different experts in our group. Bringing together experts from the UK and Malaysia, both of which have invested significantly in flood research in the last decade, would allow us to combine skills from experts with different specialities. Our economists will use economic modelling to understand how different sectors of the economy might change in future and how they might be exposed to flooding. Our group's environmental scientists will use existing computer models of rivers to show where river levels are likely to become high enough to generate flooding. Our flooding engineers will apply new hydraulics models to show how flood waters move once they have left the rivers. Experts in combining computer model outputs will combine each of these into a new model of flood risks. This new model will be used to find the effects of scenarios (factors we can't control such as climate change and increasing urbanisation) and strategies (factors we can control such as new flood defences and warning systems) which will help to evaluate some of these strategies for their effectiveness and value for money. This will allow future flood planning to be better targeted within Malaysia. We hope that Malaysia will act as a good case study for this research and that it would be taken up by other countries in South East Asia and around the world.