Uzbekistan has no exit to world ocean and the seas. Therefore it is very important to develop automobile and railway transport communications. Uzbekistan possesses huge transport potential and unique possibilities of maintenance of requirements of the country in moving as cargoes, and passengers in all directions. Creation of the international transport system providing access to the next states and other countries of the world, one of priority directions of development of the country.Developments of transport communications not probably without application of modern technics, ICT and preparations of engineering shots from high qualification. Therefore, Uzbekistan need to development of transport highways and of a transport infrastructure of the country, and also preparation of highly skilled engineers in the field of transport and road communications. This project domain is in-line with Uzbekistan government's national development policy in sustainable transport development of country. Therefore, it becomes relevant in Uzbek universities to develop fully compatible MSc program in ITS with European standards. The proposed project aims to create a MSc program in ITS at 6 Uzbekistan universities. Project objectives include: 1. Development of a new MSc curriculum in Intelligent Transport Systems. 2. Capacity building in Intelligent Transport Systems program at 6 Uzbek universities.3. Establishment of laboratories in ICT-based Intelligent Transport Systems.4. Development of links between university and public societies/institutions/organizations/enterprises.

In recent years Uzbekistan has paid significant attention to the practical use of renewable energy sources (RES) as they are viewed as an important factor of sustainable development and economic competitiveness of the country. Degradation of environmental conditions in Uzbekistan has become a major driving incentive for the pursuit of alternative forms of energy consumption.Fortunately, climatic conditions and geographical location of Uzbekistan make very promising perspectives for future use of renewable energy with solar energy having the highest potential. Training of engineers which are qualified to work with modern RES solutions is, therefore, an important issue that the Government wants to address.Project proposal has been prepared as a follow up of previous cooperation amongst consortium members. All partners have bi/multi-lateral cooperation. Though all institutions never worked as a single consortium, but some of Uzbek universities have had joint projects under TEMPUS and another framework. For example, KTH, UrSU and KarSU participated in a TEMPUS project, UNIVAQ and KTH were partners in another TEMPUS -2011, КТН coordinated TEMPUS projects with participation of TARI and some participants in the project have met in conferences and seminars held in the framework of the TEMPUS program. The project idea to create a master's program in Renewable energy sources for Uzbek universities was discussed in one of the meetings by representatives of TARI, UNIVAQ and KTH, in order to cope with the national needs in this field.The main goal of this project was then to develop a new master's program on renewable energy sources and sustainable environment and implement the developed courses at all Uzbek partner universities.Thus, the project's main pursued objectives were:1. Development of a new MSc curriculum in renewable energy sources and sustainable environment2. Capacity building in renewable energy sources and sustainable environment at 6 Uzbek universities3. Establishment of laboratories in renewable energy.4. Implementing the triangle research - education – innovation in Renewable Energy sources and sustainable environment.A wider objective of the project was to create an infrastructure and system for training new generation of engineers in renewable energy sources and sustainable environment. These engineers are the professionals able to solve local and regional energy and environmental challenges of industries, public administration institutions and private consumption in Uzbekistan. This objective is has been achieved by creating a new MSc program with complete curricula at the faculty of Engineering of ASU,GulSU, UrSU, KarSU, TARI and TTPU. Main outcomes of the project are also the definition of 12 new courses compatible with European standards in ECTS as the basis for a Full Master of Science curriculum; fully functional and well equipped 6 Renewable Energy labs with all tools for analyses and experiments in the area; Uzbek professors, teachers with newly gained skills in Renewable energy sources and sustainable environment; Growth of interest amongst specialists of industries and public administration institutions and the society in general in retraining and updating their skills.New laboratories and teaching facilities at ASU,GulSU,KarSU,UrSU,TARI and TTPU have been created and fully implemented in the planned activities.The Uzbek Partners represent different regions of the country, so that the dissemination of competencies and results have been easily transferred to a wide territorial stakeholders.TARI and TTPU are from the capital,GSU is from the central region,KarSU from the south,UrSU from the northwest and ASU from the east.The Minister of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education, International Solar Energy Institutre (ISEI) and Solar Energy Company(MIRSOLAR) have actively partecipated in the project and contributed with their day-to-day practical issues for studies and analysis.

Project “Establishment of training and research Centers and Courses development on Intelligent BigData Analysis in CA”, ELBA is aimed in improving academic capacity of professionals through developing and implementing multidisciplinary package of module based courses for bachelor, master students and professionals of engineering on Intelligent Big Data Analysis (IBDA) in Central Asia countries via collaboration with the industry.During project multidisciplinary package of the module based courses on IBDA for bachelor and master programs in 10 universities and industry companies in Central Asia will be developed. IBDA Centres in each of the partner countries’ Higher Educational Institutes and academic and professional network of IBDA specialists of Central Asian partner Higher Education Institutes will be established as well.Consortium of the project consists of partners from 3 EU and 10 CA countries’ universities and 11 nonacademic partners from the industry and education.