Agriculture in the Palestinian territories is a mainstay in the economy of both countries. The production of agricultural goods supports the population's sustenance needs and informally employs 90% of the population.On the other side, industrial and/or digital technologies are expanding in global phenomenon with an emphasis on digitalisation, automation, control and robotics in various operations related to soil cultivation management, optimization of crops nutrition, crop tending etc. Automated robotic systems can bring to agriculture flexibility in farmer decision making to select the optimal technological arrangements during the production process of the field crops, which entails not only economic but also the environmental and social aspects.The use of (digital) technologies could allow the agricultural sector to achieve big leaps in Palestine, especially in increasing productivity and introducing the cultivation of new strategic classes of crops. The knowledge about advanced agricultural technologies have therefore become key for the farmers in these regions, throughout the process of cultivation and harvest. Precision agriculture is an innovative concept in the countries of Middle East and especially in Palestine. This is not specifically about the technologies, but about the overall concept putting accent on understanding how the technologies can make the farming more accurate and controlled. The innovative character of the project serves not only the capacity-building aspect for Palestinian HEIs, but also addresses the challenges faced by the EU countries regarding ICT, technological developments, and creating a global research framework for innovation and development regarding the integration of newest (digital) technologies into agriculture and rural development.

While scientific research and associated development in Palestine have gained considerable attention in the past few years, access to research outputs in PS HEIs has been severely limited due to a lack of technical infrastructure, staff capabilities and financial resources to support effective outputs management and sharing. Such limited access hinders PS HEIs’ ability to raise the profile of research conducted in their institutions and to integrate it into the international knowledge pool, therefore, providing greater access to the research held in PS HEIs has become a national priority in recent years. The ROMOR Project aimed over the course of three years to build capacity in research output management in four leading PS HEIs by establishing Open Access Institutional Repositories and associated support services. This involved training to establish, implement, populate and manage the repositories. Learning outcomes from these training activities were shared and disseminated in a variety of ways to assist other PS institutions in setting up and managing their own repositories. This project aimed to improve not only the visibility and the management of scientific research, but also to support the advocacy in support of open access to research outputs and to foster scholarly communication and coordination between PS HEIs. The project comprised 4 PS HEIs (IUG, BZU, QOU, and KAD) and 4 EU HEIs (TUWIEN, PARMA, BU, and GLA). IUG was the coordinator of the Project.

Freedom and participation in the academic world are crucial factors that motivated QOU to submit TEFL proposal. Palestine has been restricted inside its borders due to socio-political reasons. The occupation in Pal impacts the movement of people, divides the territory geographically and socio-politically. This has led to inequitable access to quality education for all students. Moreover, academics are struggling to communicate and interact with peers from countries all over the world, due to the language barrier. The exchange of knowledge, skills and culture with others poses as a great challenge for the Palestinian HEIs. These challenges ‘built walls’ prevent from being active and critical members of a growing global community.Teaching English in Pal faces great challenges and difficulties at all levels, in all domains. MoEHE (2015), Rixon (2013), attribute the challenges to several reasons, such as poor and inappropriate content, traditional teaching methodologies, lack of professional educators in TEFL to integrate educational technology, and missing modern learning spaces; the continuing dissatisfaction with the overall performance and proficiency of students in English language (EL) is attributed to the quality of instruction affected by lack of access to technology and unappealing materials and lack of motivation TEFL-ePal aims to develop flexible curricula, with face-to-face and online courses to be accessible to all learners, with no restrictions, reaching all learners including those with special needs and conditions, learners at work & women with restrictions. It aims to implement initiatives that develop learners' linguistic capacity, skills, and English language excellence, enhance modernization, internationalization and lifelong learning without ignoring the culture. The innovative character of the project serves the capacity-building aspect for Palestinian HEIs and bridges the gaps, addresses inclusion and the proper technological development.

Al-Istiqlal University as a specialized Higher Education Institution in training future officers for the different Homeland Security Departments is seeking to introduce the Virtual/Mixed- Reality Concept in the Topography and Forensics courses as an innovative approach to teach the student the different challenging technical concepts related to principle of navigation, terrain's topography, tracing and reading different maps describing the contours, interpret different keys when reading topographic maps, how to use compass in navigation , Extracting DNA from crime-scene evidences to perform PCR testing as an avant-guard training before using real expensive kits and samples in the future laboratory which is currently under construction at Al-Istiqlal University.Virtual reality is also used for training purposes especially in topics with a relative high risk and it can't be done inside the institution walls which includes flight and battlefield simulations, medical training under battlefield conditions, virtual boot camp and more. Moreover, the ability to introduce practical knowledge to the classroom without actually leaving it, makes educational experience invaluable. Rather than listening to lectures, students can put words underneath a headset and get a real experience but in a virtual wrapper.The project will explore both popular models used to implement the virtual reality concept : the first model using a common platform built around a 3D open world which will be shared by partners and offers a lot of possibilities to further development, while the second will be a laboratory-based approach using Head-Mounted Displays, haptic devices and some technological innovation like eye-tracking, and force feedback on peripherals .

The situation in Palestine is becoming more complicated and severe year after year, a Quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) can lay the foundations for later success in life in terms of education, well-being, employability, and social integration, and is especially important for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. High-quality early childhood education and care is therefore an efficient and effective investment in education and training. In order to address these challenges, Palestinian universities, concerned agencies and ministries have agreed to work together and build this proposal upon the indeed aspects to develop the early childcare sector in Palestine following the international and European standards.The project works on accordance with the ECD strategy 2017-2022 and in partnership with MoSD and MOE, and affiliated partner MOHE. The general objective is to Ensure sustainable delivery of Early Childhood services through government’s commitment and strengthened partnership with universities, families and relevant institutions local, regional and international, under the customized EU standards to the Palestinian context, and raise the level of government’s commitment to providing and sustaining comprehensive and inter-sectorial ECEC services. the project outputs will start with CARE road map that reflect the current situation in Palestine regarding the ECEC status. Then develop the ECEC sector addressing 3 level of interventions: first with PHEJs through Building the capacity of the university staff through training, technical support and updating curricula, build the capacity of the ministries staff and the in-service teachers in kindergarten and nurseries through training and a new professional diploma , and finally with local community awareness campaigns and conferences regarding EC.