The educational curriculum seems to not successfully match with the 21st century skills requirements.In order to develop a student-centered learning environment, cover successfully the needs of a growing diverse population of students in China, India and Cambodia with a variety of multi-cultural, multi-linguistics and multi-ability needs and respond to the gap in skills set in the labour market and society, shortage of qualified teachers and poor level of student learning this proposal aims at modernizing the academic curricula, transferring knowledge and best practices on innovative and ICT-based teaching methodology on 21st skills acquisition from HEIs in Programme Countries to the HEIs of Partner Countries that will be benefited directly from this project. The results include 21st century skills teaching state-of-the-art report, a 21st century skills Educational Programme that will be incorporated in the academic program, capacity-building sessions for Faculty staff and development of 21stTeachSkills e-toolbox and learning Platform. Impact will be generated in institution-level, regional level through dissemination activities and networking and European level with the supprt of the EU-HEIs.

Climate change is currently the most urgent and profoundly complex environment-related problem for the international community. Solutions are urgently needed in policy & governance to mitigate and reduce impacts. To promote international cooperation and ensure the effective implementation of CC agreements, the system of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), applying a “bottom-up” approach, was confirmed by the landmark Paris Agreement, 2016. However Malaysia India and Vietnam are amongst these countries that do not align with the Paris Agreement Provisions, their institutional capacity to monitor and enforce policies is poor and the violation of environmental standards is rampant with India counting among the biggest emitter in the world. Therefore Solutions are urgently needed in policy and governance to ensure the effective implementation of CC agreements that is the system of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). More than that there is a need to formulate and reform climate-specific legislation in order for the Partner Countries to fulfil their international responsibilities in addressing CC and train CC experts with global knowledge and understanding on the local legal and socio-economic development. To achieve this goal, the advancement in higher education needs to focus on producing academic leaders with the right blend of knowledge, skills and attitude to drive HEIs in the right direction for sustainable development and fill in the knowledge gap in CC among the various programs’ curricula offered in HEIs. In order to address these needs CCP_Law project will develop test and adapt a postgraduate degree that will formulate and increase the number of highly-skilled legal practitioners, policy-makers and government officials as well as graduates from different disciplines that will effectively address the need to formulate and reform the institutional frameworks and the National Determined Contributions in their countries.

Antibiotic resistance is rising to dangerously levels in all parts of the world. New resistance mechanisms are emerging and spreading globally, threatening our ability to treat common infectious diseases. A project commissioned by the British government has released estimates of the near-future global toll of antibiotic resistance: 10 million deaths per year, more than cancer, and at least 124 trillion euros in sacrificed gross national product. Without urgent prevention and risk management actions, we are heading for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and minor injuries would kill. Following WHO Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance and the UN Heads of State political declaration on antimicrobial resistance, Indian and European policy makers has designed framework national plans fighting antibiotics resistance. PREVENT IT consortium has conducted a preliminary study that has highlight an alarming deficiency of academic modules on antibiotics prevention and risk management, and a total absence of awareness in the Indian society. As response, PREVENT IT plans to I) permanently introduce interdisciplinary curricula on antibiotics resistance - prevention and risk management – in per-existent studies programs – differentiating students’ target audience; II) Disseminate as open educational resource, a MOOC for students, health sciences experts, and civil society organizations working with health in rural communities; II) Conduct nine regional dissemination events; III) Involve new stakeholders with the organization - in different area of India - of sixteen workshops and one symposium; IV) Create social media campaign to increase awareness in Indian society; V) To ensure sustainability, Lab for regular training in projects’ proposals design. VI) During the last month of the funded period, to provide new impetus: establish the European-Indian Network for Antibiotics Resistance Prevention and Risk Management.

Multilingualism defines Indian cultural landscape and is recognized as both a strength and a challenge to deal with. In a country with over 325 languages and 25 scripts as listed by the Anthropological Survey of India, English remains an aspirational language creating a base for its economic success. However, the country is caught between learning this foreign language that heralds economic success and local languages that hold cultural richness, rootedness. The situation also divides the urban and rural India in terms of language proficiencies. Caught between these two extremities of having education in either only a local/regional language or completely in a foreign language leading to slow death of language, the country looks for a fair and balanced approach for the education system to respond. Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) – a methodology adopted in Europe mainly to encourage bilingualism or multilingualism comes across as an ideal solution at this point for Indian education system to adapt. Therefore, a Consortium with HEIs in India and Europe proposes the project CLIL@India. CLIL@India plans the following actions:1. Establish an international inter-institutional CLIL Resources and Training Centre at Manipal; 2. Establish satellite centres for CLIL at all participating HEIs in the project for spill-over effect; 3. Develop CLIL training materials in Hindi, Punjabi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil and English;4. Develop and continuously update the webportal CLILatIndia.in to provide open access to CLIL study materials in India; 5. to implement the first CLIL academic modules at the Indian partner HEIs; 6. To disseminate information about CLIL methodologies developing open intensive courses and events; 6. To develop an evidence-based white-paper based on the impact of CLIL on the linguistic skills of pupils attending secondary education in India.

The increased demand for drinking water from habited zones combined with continued pollution of freshwater sources due to inadequate collection and treatment of wastewater, is a statement of challenge and also a window of opportunity common to India and Europe. Unlike in Europe, the water and sanitation scenario in developing countries like in India is a matter of serious concern and more challenging. The main aim of this project is to validate, deploy or develop cost-effective & sustainable solutions to tackle water challenges and ensure the provision of safe water reuse, rejuvenate water quality of rivers, and restore ecosystems in India. This will be achieved by deploying & developing water / wastewater technologies, and use of sensors for emerging and traditional contaminants. Further, it also aims to develop new management & planning strategies and enable better monitoring of pollution levels in real-time modes. This will not only contribute to the development of sustainable technologies to cope with water shortages in rural and urbanised areas in India, but also in Europe, where climate change is expected to induce a changing and uncertain precipitation pattern and an enhancement in temperature. It will assess and enhance the potential of natural and technical water treatment systems to suit the local hydro-geological conditions. Moreover, the projects will assess and validate different wastewater and water management plans. Besides the technical aspects, research will also cover financial, environmental and institutional sustainability of those systems in order to develop and bring to the market a cost-efficient multi-barrier water management approach by building capacity.