SUNRAISE aims to promote sustainable management of Arctic and high mountainous ecosystems in Bhutan, India and Russia (partner countries – PCs) through enhanced tertiary education linked to labour markets and wider stakeholder circles. This aim will be achieved through the following objectives:1. To revise and upgrade selected BSc, MSc & PhD programs in PIs to make them end-user-oriented & policy-relevant, and enhance opportunities for LLL education.2. To develop SUNRAISE open education environment Platform (SUNRAISER) and online training services of the new generation (MOOC) for qualitative improvement of the education process and academic workflow support among universities and stakeholders across the PC and EU Member States.3. To create sustainable feedback mechanisms to end-users, ensuring adaptive and practice-relevant teaching contents, knowledge co-production opportunities and stakeholder support to post-project course development and teaching.4. To develop capacity for academic mobility, shared experimental facilities and joint research by PIs and beyond.Achieving of these objectives will significantly enhance the quality of educational provision in PCs, as the expertise of the whole consortium will become available to individual and group learners (including the students from other programs and, in particular, the learners from remote regions). PhD students will access research facilities at other PCIs through joint research arrangements and benefit from new methods and richer data for their thesis. Likewise, revision of research agendas PhD studies and integrating to them emerging problems and methods, will build teaching capacity at PC HEIs and motivate business and policy actors to engage in closer cooperation. The proposed vehicles for such engagement are national (RU) and regional (IN+BT) SUNRAISE sector collaborative platforms to be set-up for the Arctic and High Mountainous Areas to create a “community of practice”.

Current priority of world energy industry is designing of Smart Energy Systems (SES) which contributes to deployment of an interdisciplinary approach integrating achievements of energy technologies and IT. Along with the technologies development, energy sector requires specialists able to meet the challenges and capable to conceive, develop and implement innovative solutions under diverse conditions. In order to satisfy the needs of Russian and Vietnamese energy sectors in engineers of new format, the project ESSENCE “Establishing smart energy system curriculum in Russian and Vietnamese universities” will be realised by the consortium consisting of 3 EU, 5 RU and 2 VN universities aimed at modernisation of existing master degree programmes in the field of electrical engineering in a way to meet the requirements and expectations of main stakeholders of the programme, in accordance with Bologna requirements and European Qualification Framework and in close cooperation with industry. The project will achieve the following results: modernised degree programmes will be implemented at RU and VN universities, peer-reviewed teaching and learning materials including guide on industry involvement in 3 languages (EN, RU and VN) will be developed and uploaded to project web-site for free use; partner university teachers, representatives of RU and VN HEIs will be trained in advanced teaching methodologies; partner university teachers will enhance their skills in curriculum development and subject area; contacts with industrial enterprises in RU and VN will be established for their deeper involvement into educational process and enhanced job placement of programme graduates; agreements on academic mobility between CM will be signed. The project will benefit multiple target groups on different levels during the project life-time and beyond: current and prospective students, staff of participating universities, higher educational society, and industry.

ELA starts from the idea of inclusive education and equity of access and equality of educational opportunity. Teacher training in countries in transition do not equip their students with knowledge about law. ELA’s underlining assumption is that enhancing equality in education requires a collaboration between educators and lawyers to promote rights based teaching, learning, school leadership and governance. Such a meaningful interdisciplinary collaboration requires lawyers to share legal knowledge and educators to show interest in legal matters. ELA's overarching goals are: - to support the partners to respond to the challenges to establish rights based education systems;- to prepare their teachers and school principals to act in accordance with the law and advice on legal matters pertaining to their and their students conditions while at school. ELA's activities will: - develop methodologies on how lawyers could communicate law and legal information to educators and on how to prepare teachers and school principals to act in accordance with the law;- enhance multi- and interdisciplinarity for effective collaboration between educators and lawyers; - redesign teacher training and educational sciences programs to include 14 modules that transfer a basic knowledge of (education) law and rights in education to the students in teacher education in English, Albanian, Belarussian and Russian;- develop online open learning (for students) and teaching (for staff) tools on education law and rights in education in English, Albanian, Belarussian and Russian; - develop online ICT-based testing of the 14 modules on law; - improve the professional level of staff in the partner countries;- disseminate information about the project through an e-newsletter;- disseminate the outputs to stakeholders in education in (inter-)national summer schools, workshops, conferences, forums.The consortium unites 4 units from 3 Member States and 9 units from 3 Mundus regions.