We are living in a rapidly changing world which brings new challenges to our society. The world now is facing complex societal challenges that need a collective response, which requires people to break down their silos and start to collaborate across disciplines. This calls for interdisciplinary approach to foster innovation towards sustainable solutions for societal challenges. Food waste is one of the key societal challenges in Indonesia, the fourth largest populous country and the second largest food waster in the world. One intervention to resolve this societal challenge is through collaboration across disciplines by implementing an interdisciplinary approach to foster collaborative innovation in food waste management. The higher education curriculum in Indonesia calls for modernization in various facets, including integrating interdisciplinary and 21st century skills learning to enhance its students and teaching staff’s competitive advantage. It is also crucial to raise their awareness on the societal challenges and involve them to take part and contribute in societal problem solving. This capacity building project, IN2FOOD, is driven by a wide national concern on food waste and a need of interdisciplinary in higher education curriculum in Indonesia. Through this project, we aim to modernize the curriculum in 5 higher education institutions in Indonesia to deal with food waste management as a societal challenge in Indonesia and implement an interdisciplinary approach to foster collaborative innovation. Through interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge transfer from 3 EU higher education institutions, Indonesian partners are expected to develop interdisciplinary courses including innovative learning and teaching tools, facilitate interdisciplinary co-curricular activities, establish an interdisciplinary research center focusing on innovation for societal challenges, and provide an interdisciplinary master level curriculum design in food waste management.

The European Green Deal encourages citizens, businesses, academics and governments to create new innovation solving societal challenges to reduce carbon emissions and provide future jobs. This capacity building project intends to provide opportunities for Indonesian universities to develop their capacities dealing with future complex issues. It aims to integrate sustainability learning and green entrepreneurship into higher education in Indonesia by creating sustainable ecosystems through education and community development and engaging Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) toward sustainable business practices. Students and MSMEs are two main target groups of the project who will impact the likelihood of a sustainable earth while providing future sustainable jobs and businesses. Hence, the integration of both sustainability learning and green entrepreneurship is crucial for Indonesian universities. This project will develop new and innovative courses integrating sustainability learning and applying transdisciplinary approach at 6 Indonesian universities (70.900 students and 2.690 teachers). In addition, inter-university co-curricular activities are designed to enable collaboration across all partners: students, teachers, and MSMEs focusing on development of sustainability and green entrepreneurial competences. The project will also create sustainable and green campus platforms that facilitate collaboration in education and research across all partner universities and develop the capabilities of MSMEs to deal with sustainability challenges in Indonesia. To ensure the quality of results, the project combines three methodologies: UNDP’s Capacity Development Process, Framework for Achieving Campus Sustainability and the Quadruple Helix of Entrepreneurship Education. In doing so, the objective of this project - integrating sustainability learning and green entrepreneurship into higher education in Indonesia - will be achieved by the end of the project.

Innovative entrepreneurship education and training can help students and staff tackle many societal challenges by providing them with the skills required by the labour market. Due to the absence of standardized curricula focusing on entrepreneurship in Indonesian HEIs and the existing societal and environmental challenges in the country, the need for introducing social entrepreneurial education is obvious. Strengthening social entrepreneurial development can help Indonesia resolve current societal and environmental challenges and maintain its economic growth at the same time.INSPIRE aimed to promote: (1) social entrepreneurship in selected Indonesian regions by recognizing their needs and transferring best practice approaches from European to Indonesian HEIs.(2) to facilitate innovative learning practices in social entrepreneurship education by developing and implementing trainings, workshops and other tools to increase the labour market relevance of social entrepreneurs.(3) to strengthen cooperation among educational institutions from Indonesia and Europe to foster internationalization of Indonesian HEI and for mutual benefit of increased reputation and recognition in the field of social entrepreneurship.(4) to foster innovation in the field of social entrepreneurship by involving relevant social entrepreneur mentors in the formation of social entrepreneurs and by creating a physical environment where it can be developed.The specific objectives were: • to strengthen and build up the competences and skill sets of academic staff and students (potential social entrepreneurs) in Indonesian HEIs • to create a replicable and cost-effective capacitation model which can be transferred to other universities and countries in the region to extend the benefits to many more social entrepreneurs.• to develop innovative learning practices by an increased use of ICT tools benefitting HEI staff during Train-the-Trainer sessions and social entrepreneurs during student workshops.• to create new and /or expand existing university-business linkages for mutual benefits and to open up new synergy opportunities.• to stimulate idea generation and creative thinking processes among potential social entrepreneurs by conducting a Business Plan Competition.• to interlink potential social entrepreneurs with well-established social entrepreneur mentors to enhance the learning process and to improve the integration of social entrepreneurial talents in (inter)national economy and new business synergies in the long run• to establish modern co-working spaces in Indonesian HEIs This has been achieved through a variety of activities using online and offline tools in English:(1) Two tailor-made Social Entrepreneurship training sessions covering 6 modules for 49 Indonesian HEI staff who have become multipliers in their own institutions,(2) Entry-level-workshops on social business development with 261 potential social entrepreneurs,(3) Public World Café events with 245 participants connecting Social Entrepreneurship with relevant stakeholders from the Business, Public and Finance sector,(4) Social Business Plan Competition with 120 participants,(5) 1-year mentorship for 25 competition winners involving local Social Business Mentors,(6) Establishment of co-working spaces to provide mentees with a creative work environment. Impact has been achieved on an institutional level in each HEI through capacitated staff and students, on regional and national level through better cooperation among HEIs and industry and the tackling of major societal, environmental and cultural challenges, and on an international level through heightened social entrepreneurship activity in society at large.

Teacher-centred teaching and learning has strong roots in Indonesian education and conventional learning methods are still prevalent in most of Indonesian Universities. In Thailand, higher education organizations can’t attract new students in proportion to their existing structures and resources. Higher education is the efficiency enhancer and acknowledged prerequisite for the economic success of a country. Therefore, it is obvious that Indonesian and Thai higher education should meet better the international standards and needs of the society.In modern business-to-business (B2B) environment, companies are not competing against each other’s but instead the competition is done in between of different supply chains and value networks. Higher education graduates can’t rely on old business models; they must be armed with the mindset and competences needed in modern international businesses. B2B sales is a growth accelerator but it has not been given the appreciation it deserves as a profession, neither a stable position as in higher education.The main aim of the SEASAC project is to strengthen South-East Asian Universities’ capability to provide highly skilled B2B Sales professionals for the emerging international markets. In the project, we will utilize existing European knowledge and experiences in developing a pedagogically rich concept for the cooperation of Universities and companies in the sales education. Best practices from Europe will be matched with Asian sales cultures.A concrete tangible output will be a South-East Asian Sales Competition concept, consisting of International B2B Sales Course and South-East Asian Sales Competition Finals event. These novelties engage companies to the University level Sales education in its all phases: planning, implementation and assessment of students’ performance. In addition to core partner countries, concept will attract Universities from other South-East Asian countries during the implementation of the project.