The changes in educational paradigms and development of ICT are promoting the modernization of universities and the establishment of open and flexible study programs, freeing academic boundaries.Quality, accessibility and innovation are concepts that are driving the changes of virtual higher education. ACAI-LA Universities Network undertake the challenge of modernizing and internationalizing higher education, and contributing to development and social cohesion in Latin America, with an academic offer in pursuit of excellence, equitable and innovative.This academic offer will be available in the ACAI-LA Virtual Campus with accessible:- Life long learning program, MOOC.- Master for training of trainers, MOOC, certified by the consortium universities.This university campus will integrate online services for: support to students, support to graduates and job placement, and guidance to teachers in methodologies and innovative educational techniques.The curricula will:- Be open and flexible.- Form its students with ICT skills required by the labour market.- Include educational materials and laboratories, accessible to social groups with learning difficulties because of economic, ethnicity, gender or disabilities reasons.- Be available in: English, Spanish, Mayan and / or African descent languages.A sustainable business model will be supported for capacity building in:- Young graduates.- Teachers, who create innovative educational, quality and accessible resources.This scientific and educational cooperation network shows the diversity in Latin America. The ACAI-LA Network consists of three European universities and eight Latin American, four of which are located in less developed countries of Central America and the others are from South America. This condition will improve the impact, dissemination and exploitation of project results, publications and open educational materials.

The development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and specifically Internet of Things (IoT) in Argentina and Uruguay is growing at a relatively slow pace and we found the main reasons being: the lack of cooperation, the scarceness of human resources in the area of interest, and the heterogeneous thus ineffective educational methodology and offer in a state of the art topic. The aim of the project NEON is therefore to modernize the higher education system, to improve and diversify the training of human resources, both in the academic field (students, professors,) and in the industrial sphere (technical staff) and to motivate a broader spectrum of people towards IoT, which nowadays is one of the most innovative and most impactful technology in the ICT field, as it can influence and improve several aspects and processes of our lives. The main goal of the institutions that take part in the project will be the creation of a Network of Competence in IoT. This network of competence will serve as a hub and common knowledge base for both academia and industry in order to foster an improved technological advancement through exchange of knowledge and needs. Specifically, the network of competence will connect universities in Argentina and Uruguay with local industry (and with EU universities) in order to address their needs, offer teaching and training opportunities to both teachers, staff and students, improve the infrastructure through the creation of joint university-academia laboratories and offer internships. All these activities will be related to modernizing the curricula by including the IoT topic, developing new hands-on based education, acquiring digital skills and learning methods to strengthen the relation between HEIs and the wider economic and social environment fostering capacity building, innovation, creativity and employability so that to contribute to local economy growth.

L'EMJM Techniques, Patrimoine, Territoires de l'Industrie (TPTI) forme à la connaissance et à la patrimonialisation des techniques. Coordonné par l'univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, il délivre un diplôme conjoint avec les univ. de Padoue et d'Evora, et six universités partenaires : Oviedo (Espagne) ; Prague (République Tchèque) ; Sfax (Tunisie) ; Cheikh Anta Diop (Sénégal) ; Cordoba (Argentine) ; Kagoshima (Japon). Le consortium a co-construit un champ historico-patrimonial innovant portant sur la culture matérielle et immatérielle de la production (patrimoine artisanal et industriel) et couvrant un vaste domaine allant de l'objet au territoire. Il vise à promouvoir la connaissance et la préservation des cultures techniques par le décloisonnement des secteurs de l’histoire et du patrimoine et une approche globale comparative, attentive aux enjeux environnementaux actuels. Le Master bénéficie de la complémentarité disciplinaire des partenaires. Pour favoriser l'interculturalité, tous les étudiants suivent le même cursus du S1 au S3. D’abord à Paris (S1, Histoire et anthropologie des techniques), puis à Padoue (S2, Patrimoine industriel) et à Evora (S3, Paysages culturels et techniques). Au S4, ils rejoignent l’une des univ. partenaires en petits groupes (5 ECTS), puis leur univ. de soutenance de mémoire (Paris, Padoue ou Evora). Le programme est multilingue. La première langue est le français, la seconde l'anglais. Des cours d'italien, de portugais et d'anglais sont donnés tout au long du programme. TPTI est ouvert aux historiens, architectes, spécialistes de la culture, économistes et gestionnaires du patrimoine. Il ouvre aux métiers de la conservation, du patrimoine et de la médiation culturelle, à la gestion de musée ou de site, à l'archéologie industrielle, au tourisme technique et industriel, au consulting, mais aussi à l'enseignement et à la recherche. Pour cela, l’équipe mêle enseignants chercheurs et praticiens et dispense des cours théoriques et pratiques.

By initiating a Latin American-European cooperation on innovation and entrepreneurship, the LISTO project adresses the LA universities' need to keep developing their capacities in connecting with the wider economic and social environment. The project has identified three target areas. 1.) University-industry relations; 2.) Teachings entrepreneurship skills; 3.) entrepreneurial universities. LISTO will establish an exchange of methods for matching researchers with industry R&D staff (AIMday), develop an interdisciplinary entrepreneurship skills module and train teachers in delivering an international classroom, and work on strategies for fostering an entrepreneurial spirit and innovation governance. There will be an open access ebook (in English, Spanish and Portuguese) summarizing the results and the teaching methods.