The PERFORM project aspire to contribute to resolve the lack of qualified post-basic teachers in Madagascar.This project aims at designing and implementing an hybrid continuing education system for post-basic education teachers. It will be based on a collaborative approach in both design and implementation. The methodology is based on these principles:- Training on hybrid training design for a group of teacher trainers at European universities;- Training of teachers for teacher training colleges by this group of trainers, with the support of European experts;- Co-design of a hybrid training device by a group of teachers from teacher training colleges and post-basic education teachers including the training time itself ;Through the device put in place:- 185 teacher trainers are trained in the design of a hybrid training device;- 1,000 post-basic education teachers in the priority disciplines set by the ministries (mathematics, physics, chemistry, French and computer science) are trained in the didactics of their disciplines, as well as in education sciences and in French.At the end of the project:- The teachers of the teacher training colleges have the necessary skills to extend the system to initial training or even to other disciplines if necessary;- Post-basic education teachers have improved their capacities and adopted the use of new technologies;- Teachers are able to innovate by integrating a collaborative dimension into their teaching practices.The PERFORM project has been endorsed and is supported by the three Malagasy ministries of education who intend to make the system sustainable, with the teaching policy being at the heart of the priorities of the 2018-2022 Education Sector Plan.In the long term, the impact of the project is to reduce the repetition and drop-out rates of post-basic education students and increase the success rate of the “baccalaureate” (end of post-basic education degree).

The HayKa project significantly improves the contribution of Malagasy research to sustainable development through the strengthening of the capacities of 9 doctoral schools (ED) in terms of scientific quality, supervision and governance. Three specific objectives contribute to this improvement:1. To strengthen the links between academic research and the needs of the socio-economic world for employability (link between research and society) 2. Strengthen the capacities and internationalization of Doctoral Schools (international link) 3. Strengthen the links between the different Doctoral Schools (structural link of doctoral research on a national scale, notion of network). The expected results are (i) the reinforcement of institutional capacities (management of doctoral schools), (ii) the reinforcement of collective and individual capacities (creation of a pool of Malagasy trainers, improvement of the transversal training of doctoral students), for a better scientific level and a higher employability rate of doctoral students. In addition, the project will develop an interdisciplinary network of Malagasy Doctoral Schools, with harmonized procedures, conducive to a better insertion of graduates in the socio-economic world. In addition to the complementarity of the partners and the expertise of the universities and institutes of the North, the strategy of the project combines innovative teaching techniques (hybrid and based on collective intelligence in interdisciplinarity) allowing the partners to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to sustainably strengthen their capacities, and meet the ODDs. In addition to the training sessions provided, the project will organize key meetings to achieve the objectives (Doctoriales, students-companies meeting, summer school ...), create a platform dedicated to the doctorate and provide participants with a number of tools (charter of the doctorate, international joint PhD program).

The purpose of this application is to set up a preliminary organizational process with a view to create a network of partners capable of successfully responding to the European call: MSCA-ITN-ETN European Training Networks (part of the Sklodowska-Curie Actions). The aim of the WETLANDSPACE project is to create a European and international network bringing scientists and stakeholders together to train high level experts capable to help wetland adaptive management in different socio-economic, political, cultural and biophysical complex and changing contexts. WETLANDSPACE will concretely integrate science and end-user needs to train early stage researchers (ESR) who will define and implement different parameters and indicators of importance for wetland socio-ecosystem processes targeted to the issues of stakeholders and end-users. This project proposes the innovative solution of a highly collaborative working to explore diverse wetland socio-ecosystems conditions and development with a particular emphasis on incorporating perception across various stakeholder groups. ESRs will optimize close and continuous collaboration and networking to select the most purposeful modeling approach using open access tools and will integrate their results in a simulation platform to help management decision. The unique learning environment will enhance career perspectives of the ESRS who will be prepared to participate to the effort at different institutional levels by providing explicit guidance to help adaptive management to be tailored to specific contexts. Research will focus on boreal, temperate and tropical sites in Europe and Africa.

Ten percent of the world's population depend on the ocean for a readily accessible source of protein and employment, with the majority (95%) living in developing countries. Poor coastal communities are at the frontier for climate change impacts, compounded by population growth and food demand, but are among the least resilient to the challenges of the future. SOLSTICE-WIO will focus on coastal communities in nine developing countries and island states in eastern Africa, interlinked culturally and ecologically and collectively known as the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region. All nine (South Africa, Mauritius, Seychelles, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Somalia, Madagascar, Comoros) are on the list of Official Development Aid recipients, with five identified as Least Developed Countries. In the WIO over 100 million people live within 100 km of the ocean, with a significant proportion employed in local fisheries. This leaves the region highly dependent on the ocean for economic stability, food security, and social cohesion. These coastal communities have limited adaptive capacity to cope with dramatic reductions in fish stocks caused by overfishing, habitat destruction, and increasing environmental pressures - all aggravated by climate change. The decline of WIO fisheries has had profound socio-political ramifications, from the rise of piracy to general political instability. A clear example of the devastating effect of a fish stock reduction is the collapse of the Chokka Squid fishery in South Africa. SOLSTICE-WIO will use this as a case study to demonstrate the strengths of a holistic approach to human-ecosystem-fisheries research and the potential solutions this can offer. The squid fishery was the 4th most valuable fishery in South Africa, bringing foreign currency into one of the poorest provinces. It was directly employing 5000 fishermen with 30,000 dependents. The 2013 crash had a devastating effect on the Eastern Cape, yet the underlying reasons are unknown: local fishermen believe the collapse was caused by environmental change. Until the mechanisms behind the collapse are understood, there is little potential for aiding recovery or guiding adaptation. SOLSTICE-WIO will provide this urgently needed understanding to help inform the fishery and Government as to the fate of the local ecosystem, whether it will recover, and whether the crash could have been predicted or prevented. How will SOLSTICE achieve this? The key to stability of living marine resources lies in an ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF), which sees human-natural systems as a whole, integrated entity rather than separately considering individual target species. Simply put: you cannot manage something you don't understand, nor can you adapt to change through management improvements unless you can describe, measure and understand the changes. The core strength of SOLSTICE-WIO lies in its integral approach to food security, drawing on UK expertise in physical oceanography, marine ecology, autonomous observations, environmental economics and the human dimension,and WIO expertise in fisheries, the marine economy and regional policy development. SOLSTICE will provide the region with the state-of-the-art technology to deliver cost-effective marine research and provide the information needed to achieve maximum potential from the region's living marine resources. In the UK marine robotics, ocean models and novel data products from satellite observations have developed rapidly in the last decade, and now underpin Blue Economies and Ocean Governance in Europe. These technologies are highly agile and ready to be applied in the developing world as cost-effective ways to maximise understanding and sustainable exploitation of living marine resources. Such "technology leapfrogging" can overcome the severe lack of research ships in the WIO and save decades of effort in developing predictive modelling systems from scratch.

Ten percent of the world's population depend on the ocean for a readily accessible source of protein and employment, with the majority (95%) living in developing countries. Poor coastal communities are at the frontier for climate change impacts, compounded by population growth and food demand, but are among the least resilient to the challenges of the future. SOLSTICE-WIO will focus on coastal communities in nine developing countries and island states in eastern Africa, interlinked culturally and ecologically and collectively known as the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region. All nine (South Africa, Mauritius, Seychelles, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Somalia, Madagascar, Comoros) are on the list of Official Development Aid recipients, with five identified as Least Developed Countries. In the WIO over 100 million people live within 100 km of the ocean, with a significant proportion employed in local fisheries. This leaves the region highly dependent on the ocean for economic stability, food security, and social cohesion. These coastal communities have limited adaptive capacity to cope with dramatic reductions in fish stocks caused by overfishing, habitat destruction, and increasing environmental pressures - all aggravated by climate change. The decline of WIO fisheries has had profound socio-political ramifications, from the rise of piracy to general political instability. A clear example of the devastating effect of a fish stock reduction is the collapse of the Chokka Squid fishery in South Africa. SOLSTICE-WIO will use this as a case study to demonstrate the strengths of a holistic approach to human-ecosystem-fisheries research and the potential solutions this can offer. The squid fishery was the 4th most valuable fishery in South Africa, bringing foreign currency into one of the poorest provinces. It was directly employing 5000 fishermen with 30,000 dependents. The 2013 crash had a devastating effect on the Eastern Cape, yet the underlying reasons are unknown: local fishermen believe the collapse was caused by environmental change. Until the mechanisms behind the collapse are understood, there is little potential for aiding recovery or guiding adaptation. SOLSTICE-WIO will provide this urgently needed understanding to help inform the fishery and Government as to the fate of the local ecosystem, whether it will recover, and whether the crash could have been predicted or prevented. How will SOLSTICE achieve this? The key to stability of living marine resources lies in an ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF), which sees human-natural systems as a whole, integrated entity rather than separately considering individual target species. Simply put: you cannot manage something you don't understand, nor can you adapt to change through management improvements unless you can describe, measure and understand the changes. The core strength of SOLSTICE-WIO lies in its integral approach to food security, drawing on UK expertise in physical oceanography, marine ecology, autonomous observations, environmental economics and the human dimension,and WIO expertise in fisheries, the marine economy and regional policy development. SOLSTICE will provide the region with the state-of-the-art technology to deliver cost-effective marine research and provide the information needed to achieve maximum potential from the region's living marine resources. In the UK marine robotics, ocean models and novel data products from satellite observations have developed rapidly in the last decade, and now underpin Blue Economies and Ocean Governance in Europe. These technologies are highly agile and ready to be applied in the developing world as cost-effective ways to maximise understanding and sustainable exploitation of living marine resources. Such "technology leapfrogging" can overcome the severe lack of research ships in the WIO and save decades of effort in developing predictive modelling systems from scratch.