The economic crisis and pandemic in South Mediterranean and sub-Saharan countries have put the HEIs in a challenge to accommodate for the new requirements of online teaching. The RL4Eng project aims to improve the quality of higher education in third countries and make it more relevant into the today’s digital transformation world through establishing Remote and Virtual Laboratories for Teaching and Training Engineering Students to modernize the current teaching approaches and improve the digital and entrepreneurial capacities of both students and teachers in South Mediterranean and Sub-Saharan HEIs. The project’s contribution to the priorities of the call includes the digital transformation under which digital education is the focus of the project. Online teaching for laboratories has been implemented in EU countries with successful outcomes. The involvement of different European Universities will help integrate good practices and minimise potential risks in implementing the RL4Eng project. South Mediterranean HEIs have identified the necessity of training with numerous initiatives available in the European system. Few Research is available on the effective delivery of remote labs and take-home labs. The project involves several workpackages in efforts made to elevate the knowledge of remote labs and take-home labs in the partners institutions via capacity building for students, staff and faculty and share of experiences. A remote lab will be established in each country of the partners institutions and a take-home lab will be established in each HEI of the partner countries. The very nature of remote labs, and take-home labs makes them sustainable and easily scalable as they becomes part of the university structure and receives part of its budget. Moreover, the nature of the remote labs makes them sustainable as they are accessible from everywhere and could be used for both teaching and for research.

DALILA project aims to support the modernization, accessibility and market-oriented of higher education in the Partner Countries in order to contribute to the development of sustainable and inclusive socio-economic growth (in addition to national ownership, social cohesion, equity, proper geographical balance and diversity). The main priority of the project is to enhance the capacities of the target higher education institutions (HEIs) in Tanzania and Uganda on Renewable Energy and Green Economy and to strengthen the connection of HEIs with local labor market demand for skills, giving to the new experts suitable competences to invest on the field with own business challenges.The project proposal aims to answer to the growing request of energy in both countries and to the new market job opportunities in the renewable energy sector in order to contribute to poverty reduction and to identify solutions and create more access and opportunity for all students.The main objective of the project proposal is to establish n. 6 new courses on “Renewable Technologies” and “Green Business creation and development” in 2 Universities in Tanzania and 2 in Uganda. The courses will be based on an innovative approach that includes the promotion of an equal access to higher education and the facilitation of students’ transition to work.

The AHEAD project is a partnership between 4 HEIs (Romania, Poland, UK, Italy), 1 SME from Bulgaria, 5 HEIs from Kenya, 2 HEIs from Tanzania and 3 HEIs from Uganda. Its overall objective is to enhance the management, governance, teaching, research and evaluation capacities of Partner Country HEIs in view of enabling them to implement the knowledge triangle and better integrate their research, education and innovation functions in support of innovation for sustainable development and inclusive growth.The secific objectives of the project are:- To enable PC HEIs to review and reform their institutional structures and agendas, build the vital human capital and strengthen the managerial expertise needed to lead and manage knowledge flows and innovation partnerships with a variety of stakeholders in the field of sustainable development, entrepreneurship and inclusive growth;- To contribute to the PC HEIs’ knowledge and teaching base in the field of innovation management and inclusive innovation, as well as to build PC HEIs’ capacities for entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship education;- To create inclusive stakeholder-oriented university-led support structures and communication platforms with diverse partners in the innovation system in view of nurturing local entrepreneurship and inclusive development in the participating PCs.The main activities include:-Analysis of national innovation systems and institutional innovation capacities;-Developing learning materials in Innovation Management and Inclusive Innovation-Training of trainers and workshops;-Improving the good-practice and evidence base for delivering (social) entrepreneurship education;-Creation of Virtual Knowledge Gateways (VKGs) for structured cooperation between PC HEIs and key stakeholders and strengthening stakeholder collaboration and consultation;-Establishment of Innovation for Development Hubs (IDHs) encouraging local and regional development and stakeholder co-creation in innovation.

Africa is endowed with a huge proportion of natural resources, including many dynamic young people who find themselves un- or underemployed, no matter what degree of education they have undergone. Higher education institutions (HEI) in the continent faces challenges such as, weak links to the wider socio-economic context, textbook based curricula that do not address the local socio-economic problems and needs and outdated pedagogical methods of delivery.This project is designed to reform Higher Education (HE) study programmes to ensure curricula that are highly relevant to the contemporary economic and social needs of Africa, equipping graduates with skills and competences for employability and self-employment. The project involves trans-African and trans-continental cooperation between HEIs in East and West Africa and in the EU, as well as local cooperation with external stakeholders. The project will contribute to objectives of the African Union Commission (AUC) Strategy, including provision of higher education that matches opportunities and requirements of local labour markets.Project outputs will be 5 study programmes, aligned with local, national and regional needs and priorities, partly or fully redesigned in close collaboration with external stakeholders, to integrate entrepreneurship, innovation and ecological, social and economic sustainability into curricula, delivered through student-centred learning (SCL) approaches, such as, problem based learning, challenge driven learning, team based learning etc.These curricula will serve as 'best practice' examples within the HEI and after project completion each HEI will have a team of trainers who have the knowledge, skills and competences to train and assist colleagues in designing similar programmes. In this way the project will impact on HE, first in the institutions involved and later at the national and regional levels.

The overall objective of the project is to contribute towards increased capacity of higher education to support and scale digital transformation in Eastern Africa, with the aim to ensure rehabilitation services for all. An estimated 2.4 billion people globally are currently living with health conditions that benefit from rehabilitation. The digital transformation provides an opportunity to have more accessible and personalized model and system of rehabilitation in Eastern Africa. Project specific objectives are: 1) Strengthened role of higher education in the promotion of rehabilitation in the society, including innovation and business ecosystems, 2) Enhanced pedagogical opportunities and increased quality of education in Eastern Africa in digital rehabilitation for the social, health and education sectors. Project reaches the objectives through capacity building and development between the higher education and the working life, promoting on-going cooperation between the project programme and partner countries. Project answers to the need to strategically leverage digital tools, technologies, and services in rehabilitation through educational development. Primary target groups of the project include teachers and professionals, students, and the working life. Other target groups include various professionals in social and health care, the business sector, rehabilitation clients, and the society at large. Persons benefitting directly from the project include 950 persons. Through project activities, the outputs to be established are Eastern Africa digital rehabilitation Innovation Community (IC), enhancing the pedagogical competence/skills and increased knowledge of teachers and students related to digital rehabilitation, renewing partner institutions’ curricula on multidisciplinary digital rehabilitation for working life and increasing the awareness and understanding of digital rehabilitation among key stakeholders in Eastern Africa.