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.

GUARDEN’s main mission is to safeguard biodiversity and its contributions to people by bringing them at the forefront of policy and decision-making. This will be achieved through the development of user-oriented Decision Support Applications (DSAs), and leveraging on Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (MSPs). They will take into account policy and management objectives and priorities across sectors and scales, build consensus to tackle data gaps, analytical uncertainties or conflicting objectives, and assess options to implement adaptive transformative change. To do so, GUARDEN will make use of a suite of methods and tools using Deep Learning, Earth Observation, and hybrid modelling to augment the amount of standardized and geo-localized biodiversity data, build-up a new generation of predictive models of biodiversity and ecosystem status indicators under multiple pressures (human and climate), and propose a set of complementary ecological indicators likely to be incorporated into local management and policy. The GUARDEN approach will be applied at sectoral case studies involving end users and stakeholders through Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships, and addressing critical cross-sectoral challenges (at the nexus of biodiversity and deployment of energy/transport infrastructure, agriculture, and coastal urban development). Thus, the GUARDEN DSAs shall help stakeholders engaged in the challenge to improve their holistic understanding of ecosystem functioning, biodiversity loss and its drivers and explore the potential ecological and societal impacts of alternative decisions. Upon the acquisition of this new knowledge and evidence, the DSAs will help end-users not only navigate but also (re-)shape the policy landscape to make informed all-encompassing decisions through cross-sectoral integration.

"MADEEHI project aims to ensure capacities regarding control of energy, water, housing environment and new technologies, in accordance with socio-cultural context, to assure a sustainable and reasoned local development based on entrepreneurial spirit and added value of natural resources of Madagascar. Moreover, this project aims to improve cooperation between universities and companies at regional, national and international levels. MADEEHI consortium is composed of 3 HEIs from three countries Madagascar and (SP, FR, BE) and three HEIs from Madagascar. It is composed on 12 associated partners with complementary interventions, as 3 companies, 2Heis, 3 association/ONG, 4 ministries and 2 public establishments. The project plans to ensure units of learning proposed in Master degrees concerning domains, and to improve competencies of teachers. In this context, exchanges of goods practices, sessions training in EU and Madagascar will be implemented. Workshops, technological showcase and conferences will mobilize stakeholders and establish narrow relations between universities and companies.Equipments as experimental benches and demonstrators will be installed in 3HEIs and ""Green Village"", in order to implement these experimentations."