By supporting the ministerial strategic vision within the framework of the implementation of the Bachelor cycle, and the pedagogical renewal in adequacy with the needs of economic and social development of Morocco, the ICFALa project aims to set up Work-linked Training Centers at the level of the Moroccan Universities playing the role of interface between the establishments of higher education and the professional branches, favoring the approach by competence in Higher Education in the inter-professional fields, in adequacy with the needs of the business world

Ethics and integrity are key dimensions of excellence in research and crucial for public trust in science. BEYOND will reinforce efforts to promote adherence to the highest standards of research ethics and integrity (RE/RI) and prevent research misconduct (RM) by developing and disseminating regulatory and educational interventions that elucidate institutional and individual responsibilities for ensuring and fostering research environments conducive to ethical research. To that end, BEYOND will adopt a complex ecosystemic perspective on research ethics and integrity that recognizes the multiple responsibilities of researchers and other stakeholders to enrich the overly simplistic Bad Apples approach that underpins most existing measures to prevent research misconduct. BEYOND will EXPLORE the existing literature on behavioural ethics and moral psychology as well as the socio-economic consequences of research misconduct and ENGAGE all involved stakeholders in a public consultation. To GUIDE and EQUIP all stakeholders in the research ecosystem, BEYOND will utilize this knowledge to develop 1) psychologically informed contextual interventions to promote RE/RI and prevent RM from the perspective of individual and institutional responsibilities, 2) methodologies to measure the short-, medium- and long-term impact of RE/RI trainings on attitudes and behaviours of students and researchers, 3) a best practice manual and guidelines to supplement standard operating procedures from a complex research ecosystemic perspective as well as a 2030 roadmap towards improving the RE/RI culture and 4) new training materials and tools to supplement existing educational efforts. BEYOND will mobilize all stakeholders via the three thematic networks involved in the consortium (ENRIO, EUREC, The Guild) and the stakeholder advisory board to ensure widespread dissemination of results and facilitate their institutional uptake and embedding.

Open science (OS) where research planning, processes, data and results are freely available to all stakeholders is the future of science. OS will make science more effective and more responsive to societal needs, and it will enable citizens to participate actively in all aspects of science as citizen scientists. OS does, however also raise new questions about research ethics, integrity and misconduct. We know that research misconduct and questionable research practices occur in our current scientific processes, and it is likely that similar or new forms of misconduct and questionable practices will emerge in OS. It is therefore important to identify and analyse the potential for misconduct in various areas of OS practice and in different scientific disciplines, and to identify and analyse current ethical, social and legal approaches to responding to questionable practices. It is only based on such an analysis that the European science system can effectively ensure that ethics and research integrity (ERI) becomes a structural component of Open Science. ROSiE will provide this analysis and develop practical tools aimed at ensuring ERI in OS and citizen science (CS). This will be done by a strongly multi-disciplinary project group consisting of world-leading experts and organizations in OS, CS, and ERI. We will: EXPLORE: Provide a systematic inventory of ERI, social, and legal implications and challenges of OS; and of existing technologies and platforms that safeguard responsible OS. ENGAGE: Conduct consultation and stakeholder engagement aimed at creating and sustaining a community of practice involving all European stakeholders interested in OS and ERI. GUIDE: Conduct a strategic policy assessment for promoting responsible OS and develop operational guidelines for relevant stakeholders, including a complement to the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity. EQUIP: Develop an ERI knowledge hub for OS and training materials for ERI aspects of OS.

IntelComp sets out to build an innovative Cloud Platform that will offer Artificial Intelligence based services to public administrators and policy makers across Europe for data- and evidence-driven policy design and implementation in the field of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) policy. Large STI datasets are processed on High Performance Computing (HPC) environment part of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) imitative. Public administration at all geographical and organizational levels, STI stakeholders and civil society produce a great amount of dynamic, multilingual and heterogeneous data (i.e. national STI strategies, plans and work programmes, calls, projects, reports, scientific publications, patents, dissemination articles, etc.), so understanding and analyzing this data is crucial for evidence-based policy making. The objective of IntelComp is to deliver a platform that provides tools for assisting the whole spectrum of STI policy, i.e., agenda setting, modeling design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. It will do so by involving multi-disciplinary teams to co-develop innovative analytics services, Natural Language Processing pipelines and Artificial Intelligence workflows and by exploiting open data, services and computational resources from the EOSC, HPC environments and federated distributed operations at the European Union, national and regional level. It will ensure a cooperative environment where different actors can visualize, interact and analyze information. Through co-creation, IntelComp will adopt a living labs approach and will engage public policy makers, academia, industry, SMEs, local actors, civil society and citizens to explore, experiment with and evaluate STI policies at all stages. IntelComp will be targeting domains aligned with the European Agenda and the Horizon Europe Missions: Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change and Health.

Wider objective is to improve education quality assurance systems through development of efficient internal quality standards leading to better employability of students in Partner Countries Universities. The internal QA system will be based on analysis of needs and capacities in Kazakh and Ukrainian HEIs, experiences and best practices from the successful QA action line of the Bologna ProcessThus main activities of the project are as follows (1) to promote the creation of quality culture at various levels through motivation, trust, responsibility of students, institutional leadership, individual staff members; (2) to elaborate proposals for the design of programs for BSc and MSc with the involvement of all stakeholders; (3) to develop technologies of assessment quality of BSc&MSc programs; designed program should meet the objectives including learning outcomes; (4) to conduct training for the QA specialist&academic staff; (5) to improve affiliate network university-business-State through collaboration with the EU universities; (6) to enhance internal university information systems of quality evaluation; (7) to develop a corporate QA infrastructure based on ICT, on-line, mobile technologies.Expected results of EDUQAS project: I. Created QA units, developed set of standards, guidelines for internal quality assurance in higher education; II. Improved quality of activities (research, education, governance) on the basis of the study of procedures and processes of EU universities; III. Improved quality culture among students, academic staff, management and administration of the University; IV. Developed affiliate network university-business-State through cooperation of QA agencies, professors, researchers, students with EU universities; V. Enhanced internal university information systems of quality evaluation and corporate QA infrastructure.VI. Piloted internal QA policy, guidelines&procedures will serve as a basis for QA national standards by PC QA agencies.