Ci-RES is a national structural project which aims at building institutional capacities for integrating refugees into higher education. As the number of refugees is increasing every year, Algeria has become in recent years a land of immigration and refuge. In the year 2019, Algerian universities registered more than 5,000 refugee students on average. In order to face this situation of crisis, it has become urgent to take charge of this vulnerable category, which shows a disadvantageous situation due to the absence of clear national regulations in favor of their integration into higher education in Algeria. The project Ci-RES, therefore proposes both regulatory and operational measures for the improvement of university services at the level of the partner universities as well as the at the level of the Ministry in order to ensure support at the educational, psychological, social and professional level. Distance training and face-to-face training are provided to the three target groups of the project, academic and administrative staff as well as refugees, through theoretical courses and other practices on the legal, academic and administrative aspects. Training in the Arabic and French languages will also support the social integration of refugees into university life. Practical workshops are scheduled and will enable the 3 target groups to express their needs and frustrations and to propose concrete solutions through open doors on employment and intercultural dialogue activities. Civil society members, NGOs, journalists and the ministry will be involved in these outreach activities. In the end, concrete measures of integration will be proposed through the creation of an office at the level of the vice-rectorates in charge of the external relations of the universities, a practical guide and an internal regulation will also be dedicated to the integration of the refugees in the university.

Students with Impairments (SwI) appear to be unwilling towards transition to Higher Education (HE), face serious challenges during their studies or quit university without developing the necessary skills to cover future working requirements. In Africa, HE has failed modernisation, while Individuals with Impairments (IwI) are numerous and have limited access to appropriately designed HE programmes.The aim of the project is to develop accessible Distance Education Programmes (DEP) for individuals with Visual, Hearing, and Mobility/ Physical (ViHeMo) impairments. The objectives are to:• Develop accessible and inclusive DEP improving the quality of HE for individuals with ViHeMo impairments and offering flexible learning and virtual mobility• Upgrade the facilities in HE Institutions (HEIs) through accessibility offices and assistive technology resulting in modernisation of services• Build capacity in HE staff in developing and carrying out accessible DEP• Involve IwI in a user-center design The project’s innovative aspects lie in:• The development of a complete educational material in all the possible types of information output. The material will be delivered in adapted format to meet the needs of students with ViHeMo impairments.• The user-center design – the material will be examined by end-users with the purpose of further improvements.• The multi-aspect adaptation of the Distance Education (DE) delivery system – i.e. adaptations pertaining to accessibility, usability and educational effectiveness. • The overall assessment through complete DEP and the participation of end-users.The development of accessible DE programmes will benefit directly the IwI. Many of them (285) will be actively engaged in the assessment of educational materials, at least 132 in the pilot courses, and 165 in the trainings. Teaching staff (at least 550) and trainers (66) will benefit directly from their participation in the project since they will receive in-service training.

ESAGOV aims at reinforcing the quality approach of governance in Algerian universities, starting from the construction of the university programme. The specific objectives are:- Strenghtening the role of universities in defining their own missions;- Strengthening the strategic skills of university leaders and academic and administrative staff;- Strengthening the evaluation mechanism and the quality approach within the universities.To this end, a first phase of research will be conducted through a comparative survey / benchmarking and a deepening of the external evaluation for the state of the art (WP1). The research will enable Algerian universities to define their action plan in order to elaborate the university programme (WP2). Staff capacity building will be conducted through modular training followed by three local training workshops and field visits in Europe (WP3). Staff capacity building will be completed within their own universities through local-level training of trainers (WP4). The project will then focus on each Algerian institution managing the pilot activities described in the action plans developed and defined in WP2. These pilot activities aims to build the university programme (WP5) and relies on the collaboration of European peers and on the consultation and participating of the different Ministries. In the short-term, this will strenghten the skills of the university staff in terms of governance and quality assurance, while contributing to the development of leadership engagement. In the long term, ESAGOV will increase the awareness of the benefits of governance and its challenges at University and institutional level, on both a national and regional scale.