E-TALEB is a structural project aiming at developing Lebanese Professional Standards in Teaching and Learning and cooperating for innovation and exchange of good practices and experiences relevant to similar frameworks established in Europe.The main objective of this project is to support the initial and continuing professional development of staff engaged in teaching and foster dynamic approaches to teaching and learning through creativity, innovation and continuous development in diverse academic disciplines and/or professional settings. The project will support in creating a community of researchers in different disciplines who share inter and intra university practices in teaching and learning.E-TALEB will acknowledge the variety and quality of teaching, learning and assessment practices that support and underpin student learning including instructional technology. It will also demonstrate to students and other stakeholders the professionalism that staff and institutions bring to teaching and their support for student learning. As a result, the project will have high national impact, providing at once many outcomes: - Establishing Professional Standards Framework in Teaching & Learning LBPSF;- Offering Post-Graduate Certificate Programme in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education for Faculty members;- Collaborating interuniversity activities centered on training and educational programs; - Creating Centers for Teaching Excellence inside each of the participating universities supporting faculty and students in their teaching and learning activities;- Supporting the universities in their accreditation programs by having a formal process for teaching and learning;- Developing human capital and talented experts in teaching and learning in the participating countries;- Sustaining the competitiveness of the Higher Education field in Lebanon, the Middle East and participating EU countries;- Publishing the Lebanese Journals on Teaching and Learning.

Atmospheric measurements of isoprene and other volatile organic compounds (VOC) are limited in much of the world. This stems from having few instruments which are robust, can be run autonomously in real-world conditions, and are reasonably low cost. One such instrument is the iDirac, developed with NERC funding, which was designed to meet these criteria and to measure isoprene. In this project, we will establish an international network of research scientists who are committed to expanding the available longer-term observations of isoprene and monoterpenes in undersampled regions and to developing innovative lower-cost alternatives, flux and atmospheric reactivity measurements. Such developments would greatly enhance our understanding of the fluxes of biogenic species and of the oxidative removal of these and many other trace species from the atmosphere. The partners are Alex Guenther (UC Irvine, USA), Yuan Bin (Jinan University, PRC), and Kerneels Jaars (SAEON, RSA) who contribute a unique set of expertise and facilities. The group will work together on three main topics: (i) improving the instrument design for better performance and ease of construction and deployment; (ii) piloting new uses (extending the range of species measured, deploying in new, under-sampled locations, and integrating it into new systems novel applications); (iii) identifying new opportunities for development and deployment. This will be achieved through a mix of on-line collaboration, exchange of expertise and personnel, and use of measurement facilities. The ultimate objective is to kickstart an international group working collegiately on iDirac-related developments, loosely analogous to the grass-roots, collegiate approach used for the Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature (MEGAN).

The main objective of this project is to improve the employability of students and graduates in the digital market, by identifying future needs of digital sector, and future e-skill shortages, and by offering innovative trainings (online courses and work-based learning) in order to improve future digital skills. The project will introduce a Lebanese framework for work-based learning, for a collaborative Virtual learning environment (VLE), and will produce a better information system on the Labor market.Firstly, the project will produce macroeconomic forecasting for the digital sector, showing the trends of the future digital skills. Secondly, the project will address the future e-skills shortages by introducing two innovative methods: Online training via a collaborative VLE, and a collaborative network for work-based learning. Thus, to achieve its main goal, this project will implement three major innovations:- WP 2: A macroeconomic forecasting service that predict future trends in the digital market. This will provide students and graduates with key information to make informed decisions about their careers, and will help HEI improving their supply of skills and their curricula.- WP 3-4: A digital and collaborative VLE that enables the production and sharing of digital educational content (with a digital environment specialized in filming, recording, editing and digitizing online content). The virtual collaborative platform will contribute to an effective transition towards graduates jobs. - WP5: A Lebanese framework for work-based education. The major tool here is to build a network of existing structures within universities, and centers implemented through previous European projects (Career centers, orientation services, university-firms offices, observatories, Innovation centers, etc.), including a wide range of firms and socioeconomic partners. These networking activities are also a major output of the project creating synergies and multiplication effects

"Joint project for the modernization of educational programs in sustainable tourism. Sustainable development is a regional priority for China, Vietnam and Kyrghyzstan and personnal services (tourism) is a national priority for Kyrghyzstan.AIMS IN EACH COUNTRY :Reduce skill gaps in intermediate (production assistant, responsable of organisation) and top levels (sustainable development manager, project manager) by improving the employability of students and by perfecting corporate executives.Professionalize teaching programs in line with Bologna Process and the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) and coorganize them with companies.Create professional Bachelor and Master degrees accessible in distance learning for sustainable tourism development and a longlife training program.ACADEMIC KEY PARTNERS :- South-West University ""Neofit Rilski"" (BG)- Public Interest Group of Grenoble Education Authority (FR)- International Telematic university UNINETTUNO (IT)- Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (IT), withdrawn from the Project consortium- TEI of central Macedonia, incorporated in the newly founded Hellenic International University (GR)- Universidade do Algarve (PT)- Academy of finance and economics Bishkek (KGZ)- Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VN)- Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (CN)- Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi (IT)- The University of Aristotel, Thessaloniki (GR)- Portucalense University (PT)- Kyrgyz Economical University (KGZ)- Issykul State University (KGZ)- Hue College of economics (translating his Vietnamese name also as ""University of Hue - University of Economics) (VN)- Beijing Normal University (CN)- Sichuan Tourism University (CN)- Jinan University (CN)EXPECTED RESULTS :3 national strategic action plans20 teachers professionalized en UE6 job descriptions (job profiles), 3 professional Bachelors and 3 Master degrees programs (Accreditation Files), course contents and digitized resources available for distance learning.3 poles of excellence, resource centers for sustainable tourism.3 didactic cyberspaces810 students et 150 employees trained on site or in distance learning.9 double or joint diplomas"

Hundreds of millions of people across the world now experience music via ‘streaming services’, which offer on-demand access, by means of internet or mobile telephony, to vast catalogues of music, either ‘free’ (advertising-supported) or via subscription. A controversial but poorly-understood new system of music production, distribution and consumption has developed around such services, yet there has been no sustained, integrated analysis of this system, the considerable international variations within it, nor its effects on musical culture. MUSICSTREAM provides such analysis, focusing on the UK and China, but also bringing together research from across the world via symposia and collaborative publication. The project therefore offers an ambitious empirical and theoretical analysis that will also contribute to understanding how culture, political economy and technology interact in the digital era. Undertaking such a project requires an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates analysis of the changing media industries, including new conditions for music creators, and changes in the way people ‘use’ music. The PI is especially suited for such a synthesis, having made significant contributions across all these areas. The aim of MUSICSTREAM is to understand how the role of music in the lives of producers and audiences – a subject the PI has researched extensively - is being reconfigured by developments over which these groups have little or no control. The University of Leeds is an ideal place in which to undertake such research, because it has strong specialisms in music, media and culture, and has a research infrastructure that strongly supports such interdisciplinary enquiry. The very nature of music as a cultural practice is changing across the world, and this project examines why and how this is happening, and the implications for the role of music in people’s lives.