The analysis, carried out in collaboration with local universities (LU) and national authorities, stakeholders during special meetings, revealed the need to develop new higher education curricula in the field of ICT. In Uzbekistan, there is an urgent need for highly qualified engineering personnel in the field of optical communication.The lack of personnel in this area hinders the development of telecommunication services in the regions of the country and the full use of ICT opportunities in industry, agriculture and the daily life of the population.INMACOM strives to transfer to Uzbekistan the latest knowledge and best practices developed in European countries in the field of photonics and optical communication. LU play a key role in starting and sustaining this process.Although currently LU's - TUIT, NUU, SSU and UBTUIT have undergraduate programs in ICT - the lack of experienced teachers and a training laboratory does not allow them to develop master's programs in the field of photonics and optical compatibility on their own and respond to the huge demand for highly qualified personnel in this area of the labor market.Thus, the main objectives of the project are:1. Development of a new curriculum for the master's program in photonics and optical communication by June 2024,2. Implementation of the new Master's degree program from October 2024,3. Establishment of photonics and optical communication laboratories by August 2024,4. Establish links between universities and industry for the development of the labor market in the field of telecommunications in Uzbekistan.Thus, INMACOM will create an educational basis for training a new generation of ICT engineers with a specialization in photonics and optical communication, who can contribute to the development of telecommunications in the capital and in the regions of the country.

In recent years Uzbekistan has paid significant attention to the practical use of renewable energy sources (RES) as they are viewed as an important factor of sustainable development and economic competitiveness of the country. Degradation of environmental conditions in Uzbekistan has become a major driving incentive for the pursuit of alternative forms of energy consumption.Fortunately, climatic conditions and geographical location of Uzbekistan make very promising perspectives for future use of renewable energy with solar energy having the highest potential. Training of engineers which are qualified to work with modern RES solutions is, therefore, an important issue that the Government wants to address.Project proposal has been prepared as a follow up of previous cooperation amongst consortium members. All partners have bi/multi-lateral cooperation. Though all institutions never worked as a single consortium, but some of Uzbek universities have had joint projects under TEMPUS and another framework. For example, KTH, UrSU and KarSU participated in a TEMPUS project, UNIVAQ and KTH were partners in another TEMPUS -2011, КТН coordinated TEMPUS projects with participation of TARI and some participants in the project have met in conferences and seminars held in the framework of the TEMPUS program. The project idea to create a master's program in Renewable energy sources for Uzbek universities was discussed in one of the meetings by representatives of TARI, UNIVAQ and KTH, in order to cope with the national needs in this field.The main goal of this project was then to develop a new master's program on renewable energy sources and sustainable environment and implement the developed courses at all Uzbek partner universities.Thus, the project's main pursued objectives were:1. Development of a new MSc curriculum in renewable energy sources and sustainable environment2. Capacity building in renewable energy sources and sustainable environment at 6 Uzbek universities3. Establishment of laboratories in renewable energy.4. Implementing the triangle research - education – innovation in Renewable Energy sources and sustainable environment.A wider objective of the project was to create an infrastructure and system for training new generation of engineers in renewable energy sources and sustainable environment. These engineers are the professionals able to solve local and regional energy and environmental challenges of industries, public administration institutions and private consumption in Uzbekistan. This objective is has been achieved by creating a new MSc program with complete curricula at the faculty of Engineering of ASU,GulSU, UrSU, KarSU, TARI and TTPU. Main outcomes of the project are also the definition of 12 new courses compatible with European standards in ECTS as the basis for a Full Master of Science curriculum; fully functional and well equipped 6 Renewable Energy labs with all tools for analyses and experiments in the area; Uzbek professors, teachers with newly gained skills in Renewable energy sources and sustainable environment; Growth of interest amongst specialists of industries and public administration institutions and the society in general in retraining and updating their skills.New laboratories and teaching facilities at ASU,GulSU,KarSU,UrSU,TARI and TTPU have been created and fully implemented in the planned activities.The Uzbek Partners represent different regions of the country, so that the dissemination of competencies and results have been easily transferred to a wide territorial stakeholders.TARI and TTPU are from the capital,GSU is from the central region,KarSU from the south,UrSU from the northwest and ASU from the east.The Minister of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education, International Solar Energy Institutre (ISEI) and Solar Energy Company(MIRSOLAR) have actively partecipated in the project and contributed with their day-to-day practical issues for studies and analysis.