EMI (English Medium Instruction) implies using the English language to teach academic MA and PhD in science, maths, medicine, engineering, IT etc in countries where English is not the official language and in which the students’ first language is not English. Armenian and Russian universities are attempting this at the moment as the description form explains. However, although the teaching of EMI non-language study programs is becoming a global phenomenon outside Anglo-Saxon countries the quality in Armenia and Russia is very uneven with little staff training. ● Evaluate RU and ARM practices in teaching academic content in English (EMI teaching) and EMI competence enhancement ● Study best European practices in teaching academic content in English (EMI teaching) and EMI staff competence enhancement● Create model and professional competences descriptor of university teacher of academic content in English.● Conduct efficient Start Off meeting to ensure full implementation of project goals, create management teams and Quality Control Plan.● Develop and set-up the network of EMI Training Centres including development of documentation, intake and training of staff for the Centres. People, knowledge and facilities are connected within the Centres, allowing for the creation of new connections and solutions on a sustainable basis.● Train PC universities staff in European best practices in both ESP (English Language Audit, ongoing support for weaker participants and soft skills for stronger ones plus ECTS training to bring participants up to CEFR B2 level) and in EMI best practice teaching.● PC partners develop and pilot (2 times) 9 EMI Staff pedagogical training Modules (see project descrip.) for trainee teacher students and for staff in Russia and Armenia using ECTS/Tuning Modular framework● Develop EMI Pedagogical (pdf and hardcopy) Handbook for all faculty use.Overall impact are outputs professionalism and internationalization

The T-GREEN project addresses the need of reforming graduate education in Armenian in support of the Green Deal and enabling the shift from traditional to future-oriented, green, and interdisciplinary curricula, as well as by promoting student mobility and designing collaborative degree implementation schemes.Capacity building of national and institutional administrators, decision and policymakers, educators, researchers, and students to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals targeting environmental issues into policies and educational content will be the core of the project. Another central objective of the project is to create a network involving national authorities, HEIs and other stakeholders to engage in horizontal and vertical collaboration: to this end the national and institutional regulations fostering joint, double or multiple degree implementation and promoting student mobility, credit transfer and recognition will be enhanced and piloted. Strategic revision of the national list of professions enabling the licensing of new, future-oriented, interdisciplinary, and green master’s degree programs, as well as collaboration structures developed will contribute to further initiatives also beyond the project timeframe.The developed national and institutional toolkit enabling collaboration schemes will be tested with newly developed 3 collaborative green educational programs, as well as 9 existing programs which will be reprofiled with green modules.

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.