PACTUM project aims at providing a high-quality, multidisciplinary and stimulating one-year master programme in social, political and behavioural sciences. The goal here is to develop an innovative approach that might create positive effects both for the Tunisian teaching staff and the students. With regard to the former, the opportunity to establish and cultivate contacts with important European universities and professors could be relevant to learn new methodological techniques and develop a broader and more comparativist approach to the study of social, and more specifically political, sciences. In a similar way, also European instructors might benefit much from Tunisian academic staff, due to their skills and knowledge of the cultural and political environment. Coming to Tunisian students, instead, the establishment of a new master, prevalently (although not entirely) taught in English and with a specific focus on political science, sociology, science of the administration, and international relations provides opportunity to find a job both in the public and private sector, considering the particularly challenging environment for young graduate students. A closely connected goal here is to train tomorrow’s public employees in order to enhance the professionalization of the bureaucratic body and its capacity to formulate, implement, and evaluate public policies. However, more short-terms goal are presented as well in the project. In fact, from the third year on, through summer schools dedicated (although not specifically) to public employees, there is an attempt to improve immediately the skills and capacity of the bureaucracy in Tunisia.

By bringing together all the 13 Tunisian public universities, the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education (MESRS) and two other very important players such as the ANPR and the IEAQA, the DIRASA Project has the objective to contribute to the improvement of the university research governance in Tunisia by promoting dialogue and scientific cooperation between the actors of the Tunisian national research system. In particular, DIRASA aims to strengthen the capacities of strategic monitoring and scientific foresight process through the improvement of the skills of university staff, by enhancing the visibility of university research and by developing interactions between research and the socio-economic environment.Because of these objectives, DIRASA highlight the new technologies in higher education that are needed for the development of the higher education sector and for its links with society through the creation of a Network at a national level where universities, research units and laboratories, research centres work together to apply the research products into the local context.Three are the main target groups of the project’s actions: the leaders (rectors, vice-rectors, heads of institutions and departments, deans and vice-deans in charge of university research) of Tunisian universities; administrative and academic staff as well as those in charge of research management and administration, who are responsible for the operational management of research; and finally, researchers and doctoral students, who will benefit from the training provided by the project. In addition to these target groups, there are also representatives of general society (policy makers, other national and local institutions that are not consortium partners) who will actively participate in the cooperation workshop still planned by the project.

"The number of students having access to higher education system in South Mediterranean countries more than doubled in 15 years. This positive step forward involves in parallel important difficulties for universities to handle overcrowding. In STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), one promising solution matching the national priorities in Algeria, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia concerns the development of nationally accredited e-learning trainings (""e-engineering trainings""), e-learning being a very modern and efficient solution to integrate multiple profiles of students.The main originality of the e-LIVES project is to make sure that beneficiary partners will be 100% independent for creating and managing an e-engineering training at the end of the project. e-LIVES will propose innovative e-engineering solutions to deal with a range of administrative, human and material obstacles to HEIs modernisation. These solutions will be identified after providing a critical mapping of e-engineering best practices and will be developed in an innovative way and innovative format (tutorials, technical and summary data sheets, trainee practical exercises, open workshops, etc) on real conditions in each beneficiary partner.E-Lives project pursues the 5 following specific objectives:- Identification of best practices in order to build high-quality e-engineering trainings- Development of reliable remote laboratory solutions with online access to Practical Works 24/24 and 7/7.- Development of practical open staff trainings in South Mediterranean universities- Control and value the pedagogical innovation solutions used- Promote e-engineering within the South Mediterranean countries mainly through National Dissemination Workshops in all the partner countries involved in the project.Know-how sharing and learning by doing approach will ensure ownership of the e-LIVES e-engineering solutions and sustainability of the future developed trainings."

EQuAM-T project aims to strengthen the management of quality assurance in higher education in Tunisia. It will capitalize on existing capacities at the national and local levels to transform dispersed components and capacities into a system with interactions and capacities allowing to evolve from few dispersed initiatives, taken on a small scale and weakly institutionalized, towards recurrent actions, regular and coordinated on a large scale, with caparable level of quality and benefiting from strong systemic capacities and performances at the national level.Tunisia will have an agency capable of carrying out recurrent and regular assessments in all universities and higher education institutions and capable of carrying out continuous work, both at institutional and programmatic level. EQuAM-T will accelerate operationalization and strengthen the QA system in place. On the other hand, the toolbox, guidelines, benchmarks and code of practice that will be developed during EQuAM-T project will continue to serve as the basis for a rapidly evolving Tunisian QA system, adaptable to the different contexts of each university. EQuAM-T will make concrete the full integration of external QA and internal QA processes and a clear definition of the role and responsibilities of the actors. Thanks to the EQuAM-T project, internal committees for quality in universities will be operationalized and upgraded to European standards. Certifyng online training for initiation or development of QA actors will be possible in three languages. The accreditation of QA experts in Tunisie, but also at the MENA region, will also be possible within the framework of courses certified by the EQuAM-T consortium and in particular quality agencies including the Tunisian agency IEAQA and the Spanish agency ANECA.

Technology and Social Innovation for a Better Employability of Tunisian Women is a project of transfer of good practices which aims to strengthen women's capacities within the use of technologies and of communicative practices so that they become agents of local development by the adaptation of collaborative and transforming learning to the Tunisian context. The goal of this project is to contribute to ensure equality between women and men in terms of access to knowledge, economic resources and labour market in Tunisia, more particularly in the inland areas of the country, by providing women with knowledge about information and communication techniques, entrepreneurship and social innovation. INSAFem will encourage a development strategy for the regions and cities of the internal regions of the country, where the professional equality between men and women is not assured. The project works to improve the woman status through an innovative approach of social commitment, altruistic practice and the use of technologies subordinated to the female community needs. And it is through the creation of networks that the project will also contribute to economic growth.