ECOViP “Fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Ecotourism to support sustainable development in Vietnam and the Philippines” is a Strand 2 CBHE project that aims to develop entrepreneurial and innovation capacities for sustainable development in tourism in Vietnam and the Philippines.The project is fully aligned with the priorities of the Erasmus CBHE programme to improve the quality of higher education and enhance its relevance for the labour market, improving the level of competences, skills and employability potential of HEI students and stimulating the cooperation between institutions and the exchange of good practices. The initiative is also aligned with both countries’ priorities to improve the employability and entrepreneurship potential of their graduates and boost the Tourism sector (in particular through the fostering of more sustainable Tourism initiatives) which has been highly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.Thus, ECOViP specifically aims to:1.Promote the development of innovative interdisciplinary entrepreneurial Ecotourism projects by HEI students, in cooperation with the business sector.2.Develop a roadmap for the improvement of the education programmes in Tourism in cooperation with the business sector, to increase the employability of graduates.The consortium will achieve this through a series of well-designed and impactful actions that will contribute to:1.The development of the students Ecotourism projects, through the ECOViP competition & Bootcamp, during which time they will receive training, tutoring and mentoring from HEI & business sector staff2.A “roadmap for Tourism Curriculum Reform in Vietnam and the Philippines” in which partners will detail how the selected Tourism curriculum can be modified to meet the labour market needs and provide students with the opportunities to develop employability and entrepreneurship skills, while increasing the opportunities to learn about sustainable tourism options including Ecotourism.

The Republic of the Philippines faces one serious and longstanding problems of providing adequate employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for its young men and women. Even in times of strong economic growth, unemployment and underemployment has remained a significant problem for younger people. The PATHWAY project “Promoting the employAbility and enTrepreneurship of High education graduates through innovative WAYS in the Philippines” falls under the Category D of the Erasmus + programme aiming at strengthening the “University-enterprise cooperation”. PATHWAY goes in line with the Capacity Objective of promoting entrepreneurship spirits and employability opportunities of students and graduates.PATHWAY project aims at enhancing the entrepreneurship and employability culture of Higher Education institutions in the Philippines to meet labour market needs and governmental reforms.PATHWAY project will do so by achieving the 2 specific objectives:-To consolidate the entrepreneurship and employment structures at HEIs by fostering and boosting university-enterprise synergies,-To accompany CHEDs reforms on building up an entrepreneurship culture at national level through the implementation pilot initiatives and policy recommendations.PATHWAY partners will reach the specific objectives by accomplishing the following outputs: Output 1: Paving the way for the construction of a Employment and Entrepreneurship culture. Output 2: Enhancement of managerial and administrative staff capacities in dealing with E/E issues. Output 3: Pilots actions implemented in support of E/E opportunities. Output 4: Drafting of Policy Strategy for the business-academia cooperation.

Formation of Teachers for Emerging Challenged Areas in the Philippines (FORTH) addresses the reality of teaching in socio-economic deprived areas with very specific needs and contexts for both children and teachers. FORTH particularly addresses teacher´s loss of motivation and self-esteem ending in absenteeism and attrition. It addresses this challenge with a number of joint measures such as bringing to the forefront the relevance of this mission for the eradication of poverty through education, highlighting the importance of this task creating new curricula and developing it into a Master and then into an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree while making it accessible to a) people already in the area (part time) and b) those who make it a choice and a vocation to go to these areas. The curricula will be designed jointly by specialists from Phil and EU, having a critical mass 10 per university fully trained (total 50 people) and making it a centre of excellence by research and international links.Other measures relate to a plan for BA students, willing to take their practical year in these marginal areas, learning and taking part in the project. Further, the project will foster the creation of University clusters, learning communities of university- school teachers (in the selected areas as a pilot) enjoy join learning activities related to exploit specific methodologies existing for these type of teaching and use and build new material relevant to the children´s in these areas to learn and create self-esteem, sense of value and conviction that they can make it. Web repositories and audiovisual material will be created jointly the Master students and the teachers in the area.FORTH intends to be a pilot in the Philippines to be replicated in other parts of the world, making a network of interested partners. FORTH counts on a privilege team both in Phil and in EU and particularly it counts on the presence and support of the Ministry of Education of the Philippines.

"ANTENA is a structural project that aims to increase the academic quality and research of universities in the Philippines through the development of internationalisation capacities. The ANTENA project will first of all consolidate the Internationalisation structure and build human capacities of 10 HEIs by means of targeted training programmes. Secondly ANTENA will accompany the governance reforms of CHED and enhance international networking through strategic actions in key areas of the Philippine higher education system.The ANTENA project will achieve the above-mentioned objectives by: 1. Increased inter-institutional cooperation and sharing of good practices via the needs analysis and Institutional Building: 1 Study Need Analysis of Internationalisation produced, 2 site visits to UA&UM workshops for Top and Managerial staff implemented and 10 IROs fully equip and ruining;2. Strengthening of Internationalisation of higher education system through the promotion of HEIs governance reforms. 2 National Round tables carried out (One by CHED), Internationalisation Strategic Plans developed for 10 HEIs in the Philippines and the drafting of a ""Policy Roadmap for the implementation of strategies on the Internationalisation of Philippines HE"" under the leadership of the Ministry-CHED;3. Enhancement of managerial and administrative staff capacities in dealing with internationalisation issues: set of 6 comprehensive training materials developed and 2 training completed. 20 replication workshops conducted and ready to be implemented by non-partners HEIs in the Philippines;4. Establishment of a National Network and conducting 2 Philippines Internationalisation of Higher Education Conferences, and promoting the participation of the ANTENA Network in higher education international events;5. Increase public awareness and understanding of Internationalisation within higher education institutions."