The aim of RecoASIA project is to improve competencies and skills of credential evaluators of Partner countries by defining common practices and tools among European and Asian HE systems (at national and institutional level), starting from the needs expressed and sharing the experience of European HEIs in relation with the Lisbon Recognition Convention, Bologna Process and practices adopted by NARIC centres. Recognition procedures and practices do not only consist in technical issues but also in the structure of each HE system and its cultural approach. Recognition considers all the aspects of a HE system (QA; accreditation/recognition of institutions; etc.); in fact, to evaluate a foreign qualification, the knowledge of different elements and the consideration of the purpose of this evaluation procedure (academic or professional recognition) are needed. The partnership intends to develop national information centres and to provide their staff with training on recognition procedures, also taking into account the role of the Asia-Pacific Regional Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications in Higher Education of Tokyo entered into force in 2018 and to establish a dialogue with the Lisbon Recognition Convention. We will draft National Reports of each partner country involved in the project in order to present their HE systems with the aim of enhancing the internationalisation of participating Partner countries. We will treat controversial recognition cases and sectors as TNE and international institutions, distant learning and non-traditional degrees, studying verification sources and the blockchain technology as a tool to fight credentials fraud. A work package will be dedicated to the methodologies for the evaluation of refugee qualifications and the possible implementation in the Asian context. To maximase the dissemination of the project's results two final conferences will be organised.

"In the last years, with the contribution of European Cooperation Programmes, the EHEA became a reference point for policy dialogue between the EU and several regions of the world on higher education and its key role for employability of graduates. The growing global dimension of education, needs further actions for the enhancement of exchanges between the EHEA and other parts of the world, sharing goals and principles, as the transparent recognition of studies and qualifications. Within the EHEA, the implementation of ECTS (as credit accumulation and transfer), the fundamental shift from a teacher-centred to a learner-centred approach (SCL) and the use of learning outcomes and workload in curriculum design and delivery, as result of a long process and experimentation, increased the transparency and readability of the educational process and facilitated the recognition of mobility from institution to institution and from country to country as well as successful learning mobility between institutions of EHEA for short-term study periods (""credit mobility""). The recent acceleration of mobility between EHEA and other regions through the EM programme put a renewed and global perspective of “mobility” which showed the huge challenges that HE institutions and systems still need to face and manage. The students participating to EM projects are experimenting the same problems in recognition of studies abroad, that EU students and institutions had to afford at the first stage of Erasmus mobility.The project proposal intends to harmonise the credit allocation and grading system in 5 study areas jointly developed in previous projects in 23 institutions from 8 countries belonging to 4 different regions, besides EU, providing a reliable scheme for credit and grades transfer, and is based on previous experiences of the partnership in TEMPUS Programme in CA, Caucasus, Russia and Asia and EMA2 projects in the same regions, and on the new ECTS Guide and pilot project EGRACONS"

C3QA (Promoting internationalization of research through establishment and operationalization of Cycle 3 Quality Assurance System in line with the European Integration Agenda) is a three-year cross-regional and multi-partner structural project under EAC/A04/2015 call and Key Action 2 - Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education. Its wider objective is to contribute to the establishment of a knowledge-based society in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Mongolia through the launch and operationalization of a robust quality assurance system for internationalization of Cycle 3 programs. The specific objectives are: - To develop/update national policy frameworks for cycle 3 programs in line with the European integration agenda;- To build on the capacity of the systems to efficiently operationalize the internal and external quality assurance systems for Cycle 3 programs; - To establish an external and internal quality assurance systems to promote quality of Cycle 3 programs; - To promote internationalization of Cycle 3 programs with joint efforts of the key stakeholders and cross-regional cooperation.The principle outcomes and outputs are: - National policy frameworks on EQA of Cycle 3 programs adopted in the partner countries; - External and internal quality assurance systems for Cycle 3 programs implemented in line with European integration agenda; - Cycle 3 programs accredited by respective EQA bodies; - Cycle 3 programs contribute to the development of knowledge-based society;- The results of Cycle 3 programs are aligned with international best practice and contribute to research internationalization; - Cross-regional cooperation leads to convergence in line with European developments. The cross-regional nature of the project ensures learning from existing practices, successful experience exchange, long-standing cooperation between the 4 partner country and EU partners – with a major aim of promoting voluntary convergence with EU developments.

The situation with the unemployment of the Mongolian youth showcases that there are major difficulties for the university graduates in their transition from education to work. The MONGWBL project addresses an urgent need to enhance partnership between enterprises and higher education institutions (HEIs)and increase graduates’ employability through development and implementation of supporting national strategy, appropriate legal framework on work-based learning (WBL) and flexible apprenticeship model in Mongolia.The following project outputs/outcomes are expected:- National Strategy for development of WBL in Mongolia, - Flexible Apprenticeship Model (FAM) including practical implementation tools: one year Undergraduate Apprenticeship based Programme in Banking & insurance (UAPBI) and Undergraduate Apprenticeship based Programme in Tourism (UAPT) inspired by European experiences.- Amendments of national legislation in Mongolia needed for implementation of FAM.- University-enterprise partnership innovative schemes through the pilot implementation of the FAM.- Network for long-term cooperation between HEIs from Mongolia and programme countries.The expected impact is foreseen on:- Teaching staff and career centres staff’s skill improved,- long-term strong network with enterprises for integrating knowledge and experience-based learning created, - Graduates employability increased in institutional level,- HEIs and enterprises partnership reinforced, the establishment of new apprenticeship and WBL schemes promoted, - Skills matching and better employability of university graduates in national level,- Long-term cooperation between the involved partners promoted leading to convergence in line with EU developments and standards towards fostering the integration of the HEIs in European level.