The Fourth Industrial revolution brings wide automatization in various fields, so people with low skills become less competitive in the labour market (The EP resolution on creating a competitive EU labour market for the 21st century, 2015). Entrepreneurship, intercultural competence, collaboration, complex problem solving, sustainability and social innovation becomes necessary characteristic for young person prosperous life.There is strong evidence that graduates are more likely to participate in innovation processes if their studies involve working with practical knowledge and authentic problems (Educating HE Students for Innovative Economies, 2013). Use of appropriate teaching techniques might help to solve these challenges.According to that, the goal of the project is to encourage students to acquire needed competences through participating in internationalised internships programme (working with a group of students from different countries via web-based applications), which would involve solving real-life problems in order to create societal value through implementing social innovations (ambition is to spin-off those proposals as new projects, programmes, organisations or companies in partner countries).For this several tasks needs to be done: prepare internationalized internship methodology, social innovation implementation framework and run two rounds of internationalised internships: first (pilot) for evaluating produced results qualitatively in order to improve them and the second one to evaluate and improve scalability of project results.All partners will be involved in every activity to some extent because consortium has chosen iterative IO creation process. Every intellectual output will have a core team working with the product and leading organization from that team, other partners will have ‘friendly critic’ role. There will be 2 intellectual outputs developed IO1 - internationalised internship methodology (guidelines for the implementation of internships, recommendations for supervisors and mentors, quality assurance guidelines); IO2 - social innovation implementation framework (guidelines for social innovation implementation, recommendations for social innovation mentors, practical innovation toolbox, impact evaluation and quality assurance recommendations).The Consortium is composed of 4 organisations from 3 different countries, which brings to the project diverse experience and background. 3 forward-looking universities, who emphasize innovation, creativity and societal impact and social partner which is fostering the development of a knowledge-based society has know-how which covers all crucial parts of the project approach: focus on social innovation, intercultural competence, involving social partners and practical application of developed initiatives in real-life.As some partners have already established some separate parts of whole project approach in their institution, co-creation of overall framework for the internationalised internships and social innovation implementation will be based on respect for university autonomy and inclusion of different institutional and learning cultures.Project consortium aims to create a self-sustaining process of internationalised internships programme and believes that this project will serve as a pilot for preparation of internationalised internships programme, thus fostering international collaboration between participating universities and their relevant social partner networks. In order to sustain this process after the project end and to make it easy to scale and apply for different institutions consortium aims to produce framework for internationalised internships which would be inexpensive to sustain and beneficial for participating organisations. Thus, internships will be based on international groups of students working in their respective countries and collaborating via web-based tools.Focusing on real-life problems will strengthen students' capacity and skills to solve complex problems with sustainability principal at the core. Innovative internship method will encourage students to create social innovations as solutions to tackle real-life problems, thus equipping students with the necessary entrepreneurial skills. Universities (mentors) and social partners which will directly participate in internship process will build their know-how on implementing such model of internship and acquire needed understanding and skills in order to produce social value-oriented process with real-life outcome. Thus, leading universities to provide more learning opportunities for students and social partners will result in more effective internships.Implementation of social innovations will foster civic engagement, raise awareness about selected problems and will help to improve the status quo of particular field in national or international context, which will provide benefits for relevant stakeholders (e.g. municipality, citizens) and society.

The SALEEM project aims to foster student entrepreneurship in Morocco and Tunisia through the establishment of official status and support centers for student entrepreneurs in higher education systems. This will have the effect of improving the professional integration of students.There are several entrepreneurial support initiatives in Morocco and Tunisia, but these are not articulated or specifically tailored to the needs of a student audience.The project therefore has two specific objectives:1. Accompany the Ministries of Higher Education of Tunisia and Morocco in the setting up of a national system on student entrepreneurship;2. Strengthen the capacity of higher education institutions (HEIs) to support student entrepreneurs in four pilot cities, in partnership with employment agencies and economic actors.This will be done by sharing best practices developed in the field of student entrepreneurship, by ministries and HEIs of France, Belgium and Romania.The situation exposed will therefore be modified at 2 levels.At the national level, the higher education system of Morocco and Tunisia will recognize and create the right conditions for any student to study and simultaneously start up his or her company.At the local level, the support centers created on the campuses of four cities will allow students from all disciplines and several HEIs to have access to an equipped co-working space, specialized consulting support and relations with socio-economic actors.The objective beyond the project is that these poles multiply in other cities at the initiative of ministries, universities, and with the financial support of local public and private actors.The impact will therefore be a modernization of higher education systems and a reduction of student unemployment in Tunisia and Morocco.

<< Objectives >>Quality of education is a crucial point to attract and retain students in education. The needs analyses in the partner countries showed that students would prefer more practice-oriented courses and courses that deal with real-life problems. Furthermore, students admitted that they have limited knowledge on the challenges of developing countries. Thus, the IDEC PBL project aims to improve the quality of education by developing a serious game in the field of international development cooperation.<< Implementation >>After reviewing the related literature on serious games and project based learning, the partners create a handbook on serious games. Based on this, we will develop the content of our serious game, focusing on the diverse existence of donors in international development cooperation. After the online serious game has been built up, all partners will test it in pilots, and analyze its effectiveness in improving the knowledge of students.<< Results >>The tangible results are the handbook on serious games and the IDEC serious game. The intangible results and outcomes include that student satisfaction may increase owing to the improved quality of education.We also contribute to the achievement of the 4th goal of the Sustainable Development Goals, especially target SDG4.7.

The ARMDOCT project addresses an urgent need in Reforming Doctoral Education (DE) in Armenia in line with the Salzburg Principles with the emphasis on policy, legal framework (including by-laws) and institutional procedures supporting integrative and internationally-oriented doctoral studies involving universities, research institutions and industry.The action foresees:• strengthening strategic, infrastructural & human capacities in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and Institutes of the National Academy of Sciences (SRIs), Ministry of Education and Science of Armenia (MESA); • development of national new policy and legal framework, including by-laws for doctoral education in Armenia and further approval by national Ministry for pilot implementation;• revision of institutional policies, procedures based on the redesigned national regulatory framework and design of the Institutional Handbook for Doctoral Education;• establishment and operationalization of 5 Doctoral Schools creating synergies between HEIs, SRIs and industry;The action is complemented by extensive dissemination & networking activities. The partnership of 15 members comprises 4 EU HEIs, 8 HEIs and 2 SRIs from AM and the Ministry of Education and Science of Armenia. Expected impact on the international and national levels is seen as contribution to the reform and modernization of DE in line with the Salzburg principles enabling better integration to the European Higher Education and European Research Areas. The precise and clear institutional procedures and guidelines of DE will improve the transparency and accountability of the institutions. The involvement of MESA ensures project impact on policy level and provides modernisation at national development strategies.

The ultimate goal of the SM-TMC is to modernize and vitalize the educational and training system in maintenance engineering and by this to increase the efficiency and competitiveness of Tunisian industrial companies. The aim is to provide Tunisin industry with a new generation of skilled personnel, especially at mid- and higher levels, along with ensuring flexible and continuing education and training of industry personnel at all levels. In order to handle the current limitations and to remove the barriers hindering the performance improvement of the companies the objectives are:1. To implement curricula in maintenance engineering specialization in four Tunisian HEIs and to adapt it to the needs and structure of Tunisian economy. 2. To create a national organization TMC-ORG with member universities and companies for coordinating the activities regarding maintenance education and training and active collaboration university-industry. 3. To strongly involve the manufacturing companies to development know-how in maintenance engineering. 4. To develop the TMC-KNOWLEDGE Platform for education and training. 5. Overall improvement of the company climate, performance and quality in education and training in maintenance engineering. The main outputs and results of SM-TMC are:1. New curricula for maintenance specialization,2. Training programme, TMC-VET for industry personnel 3. Innovative learning methodology – TMC-Project scenarios - for practical student project in industrial companies4. TMC-Knowledge Platform with LMS for OERs, E-learning and tools for communication and information. 5. TMC-ORG, a centre for coordinating the activities for education and training.The main impact is the strengthen of the cooperation academy-industry, provide industry with skilled personnel at all levels and improve the competence of maintenance personnel .SFAX University coordinates a consortium consisting in other 12 partners, among which 6 non-academic organizations.