Overall aim:To enhance local development strategy of Kyrgyz and Turkmen civil servants through improving their competencies by creating a face to face and virtual training and counselling campus and recommendations for sustainable development.Specific objectives:To carry out a competency training framework for local civil servantsTo create training and counselling centersTo train local civil servants in local development trendsTo create guidelines and recommendations for local development strategyTo create and implement an online virtual CampusOutcomes of the project:• Competency framework of local civil servants• ROAD training and counselling centers • ROAD training and counselling offer• Guidelines and recommendations for local development strategy• Online virtual Campus

GEOCLIC aims to modernize BA / MSc / PhD curricula in geospatial technologies in order to ensure environmental safety of coastal ecosystems using new technologies: GEONETCast; GIS Software - ILWIS and remote sensing and modeling technologies through updating existing curricula in the area and developing /testing accrediting new curricula according to the new achievements in the area; to test and accredit the curricula and to disseminate the results. GEOCLIC's consortium consists of 17 partners (plus 7 associate-partners) with the required expertise and skills. The outputs/results are: •Agreement and Guidelines on instructional strategy for curricula design •New curricula in geospatial technologies, including innovative new equipped laboratories GEOLAB and virtual rooms CVE •Updated current curricula in geospatial technologies including ECTS and the new developments •Bringing the HEIs of AZ, KZ and TM closer to labor market (new equipped Service Offices on spatiality technologies GEOCOF). The content and use of new educational technologies, compliant with the European modernization agenda for HEIs, will function as the envisaged impact.

For successful integration to global transport network, providing high level transport services to both PCs and global community in the condition of uncertain continuous evolution of global supply chains, it is necessary to take into account European experience and support implementation of crisis and risks engineering for transport services (CRENG) of all levels (local, regional, national) in UA, AZ, TM. But now it is luck of high skilled specialists in CRENG in PCs. Project contribute CRENG development in PCs by creating of educational environment of high skilled specialists demanded by labor market, in line with EU best practices and Bologna process.Environment will include: new innovative MA program “CRENG”; educational materials on new developed curricula published, uploaded to the web-based platform; e-learning courses uploaded to the MOODLE platform; innovative laboratories (CRENG Labs), where students will acquire practical skills on using intelligence, digital and information technologies for CRENG; new teaching and learning approaches International Project Based Learning (IPBL) and Skills Wallet (SW).IPBL involves dynamic classroom approach in which group of international students will solve problems of global supply chains under conditions of risks and crisis. By IPBL graduates will acquire global business communication, management and English skills. SW is method of interaction between HEIs and employers, which helps graduates to acquire specific skills required by labor market. The main advantages of SW are: making universities and enterprises to become closer by mutual developing of educational content; increasing employability of graduates; making enterprises more flexible to implementation of innovations.To support IPBL and SW, disseminate knowledge on CRENG the network of CRENG Service Offices will be created as the background of established interaction between academia, industry, business and governments in PCs an EU.

REASONS: In order to respond to the:- Digital Transformation of Industries (Industry 4.0) which requires DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF EDUCATION with overtaking pace, the consortium will develop Concepts of adapting the educational system to the digital generation considering the specific conditions of each of the Central Asian countries;- EU Requirement to give the opportunity for EVERYBODY to learn at ANY time and at ANY place with the help of ANY lecturer, using ANY device – HiEdTec will create Centres for Innovative Education Technologies (IET Centres).- Digital Competence Framework for Citizens & Digital Education Action Plan– HiEdTec will support university lecturers to adopt effective digital teaching methods, open pedagogies & tools. MAIN PROJECT OUTCOMES AND PRODUCTS:- Sustainable academic network for sharing experience and exchange of good practices in the field of IET and didactic models;- 5 Concepts of adapting the education system to the digital generation in line with the specific conditions of each partner country (PC);- 15 IET Centres;- 45 active learning classrooms; - Virtual classrooms;- Handbook of implementing IET in PC HEIs;- Courses for trainers for the acquisition of digital skills and learning methods – 75 trainers trained;- Courses for lecturers for the acquisition of digital skills and learning methods – 600 lecturers trained;- 75 OERs;- 75 PowerPoint presentations of lectures suitable for delivery on an interactive electronic white board; - 5 Cloud-based Virtual Libraries of the digital educational resources.IMPACT:- The project products will be of benefit to all stakeholders in education: • National and university policy-makers in the field of education; • University academics who are trainers / lecturers / learners;- The project will help to turn the partner HEIs into innovative universities and to improve the quality of the trained specialists needed to perform the Digital Transformation of Industries.