The CHARM European University (CHallenge-driven, Accessible, Research-based and Mobile) initiative represents a new alliance of five research-based universities, representing 3 European regions (912,913,914 EuroVoc), who have co-created a long-term joint strategy, mission and vision for a new transformative model of challenge-based, multi-lingual, mult-cultural education, aligned with the principles of the European Education Area and approved by their governing bodies and signed by their rectors. CHARM-EU aims to empower and inspire traditional/non traditional students and staff to become critical thinkers capable of confronting societal challenges linked with the theme of ‘reconciling humanity with the planet’ and the sustainable development goals. Committed to the challenge of the European University, during the 3 years CHARM-EU will produce:• An innovative interdisciplinary pedagogy and curriculum structure where students will create their own pathways but which are contextualized within the knowledge triangle• Far reaching Teaching and Learning Strategies backed by a Virtual Learning Environment• A Mobility matrix and inclusivity model, to support not only seamless movement between institutions but also breadth of social inclusion and diversity, • A clear developmental framework for the attainment of a financially sustainable model for a European higher education inter-University campus that is built upon an open access toolkit containing resources, blueprints and guidelines appropriate not only for the future of CHARM-EU but transferable for the wider European Universities community. The model and the toolkit will have been tested, iteratively refined and developed through a series of micro pilots and a pilot of a 90ECTS Masters in authentic environments which will also generate open educational resources and materials to support lifelong learners within the EU context.

The Republic of the Philippines faces one serious and longstanding problems of providing adequate employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for its young men and women. Even in times of strong economic growth, unemployment and underemployment has remained a significant problem for younger people. The PATHWAY project “Promoting the employAbility and enTrepreneurship of High education graduates through innovative WAYS in the Philippines” falls under the Category D of the Erasmus + programme aiming at strengthening the “University-enterprise cooperation”. PATHWAY goes in line with the Capacity Objective of promoting entrepreneurship spirits and employability opportunities of students and graduates.PATHWAY project aims at enhancing the entrepreneurship and employability culture of Higher Education institutions in the Philippines to meet labour market needs and governmental reforms.PATHWAY project will do so by achieving the 2 specific objectives:-To consolidate the entrepreneurship and employment structures at HEIs by fostering and boosting university-enterprise synergies,-To accompany CHEDs reforms on building up an entrepreneurship culture at national level through the implementation pilot initiatives and policy recommendations.PATHWAY partners will reach the specific objectives by accomplishing the following outputs: Output 1: Paving the way for the construction of a Employment and Entrepreneurship culture. Output 2: Enhancement of managerial and administrative staff capacities in dealing with E/E issues. Output 3: Pilots actions implemented in support of E/E opportunities. Output 4: Drafting of Policy Strategy for the business-academia cooperation.

The YEBO! project, focusing on the promotion of the internationalization of doctoral studies in South Africa, aims to address and redress the problem areas of doctoral studies. The YEBO! project is a response to the target of the South African Government's National Development Plan to have an estimate of 5,000 doctoral graduates per year by 2030 in the fields of Science and Technology. Preliminary findings indicated that capacity building is critical in supporting doctoral studies. The imperative developmental areas include supervisory support and capacity, grant capacity and proposal writing capacity, with the potential to increase access to research networks, international funding and internships. The aforementioned do not exclude capacity support to institutions in support of doctoral studies, from an international perspective, and with a focus on best practices. Three principle approches were identified in response to the capacity development needs of South African universities: - A web-based portal that encompasses research and funding networks, identification of funding opportunities, with an emphasis on training materials and videos accessible to all. - Four themed conferences, co-organized by programme and partner countries, focusing on best practices for the internationalization and promotion of doctorate studies, and fostering networking and cooperation opportunities.- Three training sessions, organized in South Africa, with a focus on supervision capacities.

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.

MaMaSELF2 is a two-year, international Master in Materials Science, taught in English, associating Universities, Large Scale Facilities, together with industrial partners and research centers, organized as a network of excellence. It aims to form students to become talented materials scientists, researchers and engineers. It is jointly designed and implemented by a consortium of 6 European leading universities: University Rennes 1, and University of Montpellier, (France), Technical University Munich, and Ludwig Maximilians University, (Germany), University of Torino, (Italy), Adam Mickiewicz University, (Poland). Modern life and globalization imply new and additional challenges for scientists and engineers, in the field of scientific and industrial competitiveness. This holds specifically for the development of new materials which are strategic key-products. The tremendous evolution of materials’ needs for energy, aeronautics, informatics, life-science, etc., requires experienced and motivated staff to design the necessary complex and functionalized materials of tomorrow. MaMaSELF2 forms highly qualified and trained students in this area, able to face the new challenges. Beside a strong background in fundamentals for materials science, mainly based on physics and chemistry, students will learn advanced techniques for the structural (crystallography), dynamic and electronic (spectroscopy) study of materials. They will discover the capabilities of neutron and synchrotron radiation for the characterization of materials, and their impact on cutting-edge advances. The program is supported and advised by leading large-scale facilities, international universities, and industrial partners. The master course further develops soft skills. About 40 students coming from all over the world enroll each year. Students complete a first year at one university, then join another university for the third academic semester, while the fourth semester is dedicated to the master-thesis.