Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia, as well as other Latin-American countries, hold a vast and rich documentary and bibliographic collections. Preserving and enhancing those collections are key drivers to highlight the complex process to gather and create them, and to further know and maintain the identity and culture of different peoples. However, most of these collections are not well kept, due partly to the lack of specific skills of personnel in charge of keeping it. This differs from Europe where Universities have developed specific curricula to cover this need, and are actively cooperating with other institutions such as libraries to preserve all the document heritage. Hence, our project CODICIS seeks to design, implement and test a specialization course to preserve and manage heritage documentary collections. CODICIS also intends to create or improve labs at the HEIs to preserve and restore document and archive collections. We have set several specific objectives: - To develop a pedagogical and scientific methodology to analyse and intervene the state of documents and bibliographic collections with heritage content- Knowledge transfer from EU HEIs about preserving bibliographic heritage- Capacity building on criteria to preserve, describe, classify and catalogue documentary and library heritage materials. - Providing equipment to the partner HEIs for the correct preservation and academic use of cultural heritage materialsThe project will last 36 months. It will be coordinated by Universidad Católica San Pablo from Arequipa (Peru), involving other 9 partners from Italy, Spain, Mexico, Peru and Bolivia.

The project aims to contribute to the improvement of the employability indexes and the labor insertion of the graduates of the higher education institutions of the countries of the Pacific Alliance (Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile), through permanent monitoring and analysis. Needs and characteristics of the labor market and the construction of national guidelines and policies that contribute to the creation of a relevant training offer and the strengthening of the academic programs offered by HEIs in the participating countries.

SPEED - Social Processes Empowering Entrepreneurship Development aimed to improve entrepreneurial skills of young people with fewer opportunities and promoted and supported their inclusion in the job market, through an extensive set of activities based on Non-Formal Education to start a personal, professional, social and cultural process of growth.To reach the objectives we have structured a Consortium, made up of 2 different University one in Mexico and one in Portugal, an Italian organization with great coordination experience, an expert Estonian organization in non-formal methods and five other organizations with extensive experience in working with disadvantaged youth, from Europe and Latin America, which aimed to:- to train youth workers on Non-Formal Education methods and techniques based on Marketing, Sociology and Economics Theories to support the acquirement of creativity and entrepreneurial skills in young people with fewer opportunity;- to apply contents pertaining to Formal Education schemes into Non-Formal Education systems, activities and contexts;- to promote the acquirement and the improvement of entrepreneurial competencies, communication skills, marketing and creativity in disadvantaged youth;- to create a technological and IT digital system for self-taught learning, based on OER, containing theories and practises on entrepreneurship;- to promote Volunteering Activities as a mean to foster and multiply the impact of project activities, tools and materials on disadvantaged youth.During the project implementation, the two different universities and their departments of Sociology and Economics, cooperated with youth workers to better support and train young people with fewer opportunities, who are facing a lack of opportunities and skills, in entrepreneurship and, to guarantee monitoring and quality to the whole project process.Aims and objectives were reached through the following activities:- Online cooperation between partners;- 1 Kick-Off Meeting + Study Visit in Argentina;-1 Coordination Meeting in Italy, in addition to online cooperation – Study Group Strauss/Universities;- 1 Training Course for Youth Workers in Italy;- Volunteering Activities for 12 Volunteers in EU and Latin America;- Local workshops on social entrepreneurship in 6 countries;- Final evaluation meeting (online).The activities sponsored and powered by the partners of the consortium produced:- An academic study, promoted for publication at international level on “Paper” by the Mexican University;- an E-learning free platform for youth that collects digital contents to support the self-taught learning of young people in relation to Social Entrepreneurship www.speedstrauss.com - A promotional video made out from the experiences of the 12 volunteers involved in volunteering activities.The project suffered from the severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the consortium's countermeasures and good cooperation ensured that the quality of its products and activities was not affected and the achievement of its objectives was not precluded.

Population growth, increased prosperity and rapid urbanization are bringing global demand for natural resources to a point increasingly beyond the Earth’s carrying capacity. Together with climate change, those pressures are causing significant environmental degradation in many parts of the planet. Latin America is particularly vulnerable. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) constitute urgent calls and drivers for higher education to be part of future generations of engaged citizens aware of their role in creating fair and healthy societies.The Change the Climate project addresses three main needs: environmental management at all levels of higher education activities, integration of environmental management with sustainability strategies and institutional quality management, and customized strategies for sustainability in education. The project’s main goal is to increase Latin-American University’s contribution to Sustainable Development, through the implementation of environmental systematic practices and quality processes in alignment with the UN SDGs, improving the management and operations of higher education institutions. The project will deliver tools and guides for environmental impact analysis and SDGs mapping in campus operations and educational activities. An environmental management system will be implemented in each partner university decreasing their environmental impact; sustainability awareness will be assessed thoughout the academic communities; strategies for sustainability in higher education will be developed for curricula improvement; and a common open online course on sustainability will be created in English, Spanish and Portuguese.The project’s impact will reach stakeholders beyond the project partnership at local, regional and national levels contributing to behavioural change for sustainable futures.

Young universities share particular challenges when it comes to research capacities: poor resource bases compared to that of traditional universities, they operate outside important research networks and national policy and funding mechanisms are usually unfavourable and tend to reinforce institutional imbalance. However, young institutions usually play an important role in their own local contexts and have the advantage of more dynamic and flexible structures, which favours the relationship with external actors, particularly those located in the same region.I2LATAM will focus on the development of R&I capacities in young Latin American HEIs, through the generation of knowledge-sharing spaces to stimulate the relationship with key regional socio-economic actors. The quality, size of the consortium and the participation of four of the largest countries in Latin America (Colombia, Peru, Mexico and Argentina) give this project a unique reach and impact portential.The project will result in the development of tools and methodologies to systematically map and match institutional capacities with regional opportunities, as well as in the creation/reinforcing of knowledge-sharing spaces, using succesful European models as example. Additionally, I2LATAM will develop R+D+I capacities in young researchers and R&I managers by launching an open access training package focused on key skills to promote regional and international collaboration. The ultimate goal of I2LATAM is to strengthen capacities for strategic management of research and innovation in Latin American young Universities by taking advantage of the potential local/regional impact, while fostering collaboration between Latin American and European HEIs for the development of innovative research initiatives and projects. In the long term, it is expected that the exchange of knowledge, experience and good management practices will contribute to the region's insertion in the global dynamics of research and innovation.