The next production revolution (NPR) is occurring because of a confluence of digital technologies (e.g. 3D printing, the Internet of Things, advanced robotics), new materials (e.g. bio- or nano-based), and new processes (e.g. data-driven production, artificial intelligence). Africa is expected to be “the world’s next great manufacturing centre”, potentially capturing part of the 100 million labor-intensive manufacturing jobs that will leave China by 2030, provided it embarks decisively on a path of industrialization and circumvent the challenges the “New Industrial Revolution” is generating. Tunisia is one of the African countries that has understood early enough that the digital transformation and the next industrial revolution offers exciting opportunities for the country to make its great leap into the future. Tunisia shows an articulate innovation ecosystem that is promising for introducing the NPR in the country. However, benefiting from the NPR requires overcoming a myriad of obstacles. Major reforms and efforts are needed at the level of infrastructure, education, training and scientific research to provide Tunisian industrialists with the human skills capable of appropriating the technologies accompanying this Revolution. In addition, the low connections between universities and industries come out to weak innovation linkages that may stop further innovation in the country, especially in the field of NPR where the relevance of applied research and technology transfer is high. To this end, NePRev aims to develop a closer connection between universities and industries and reinforce the role of Tunisian universities to promote the transition toward the NPR and adapting to the evolving needs of the labour market in Tunisia. A key major outcome of NePRev is to set up a joint research master degree in Next Production Revolution, focusing on the training and education of researchers and experts prepared to help the Tunisian industry to embrace this revolution.

The COVID 19 pandemic has abruptly delayed many of the expectations for social, cultural and economic growth. Due to its transversal nature and impact on all sectors of the economy, tourism represents a privileged activity for poverty reduction and economic growth. In this context, sustainable tourism is an essential factor of opportunity and growth for countries like Angola and Cabo Verde. Cabo Verde has registered a remarkable growth in tourist activity in recent years, as it is considered a strategic sector for the country's sustainable development. However, it´s a traditional tourism based on the beach and the sea as the main attractions. Therefore, one of Cabo Verde's biggest challenge is to change from a saturated 3S tourism model (Sea, Sun and Sand) to a truly sustainable tourism model, through the diversification of the tourist offer. Angola is not an attractive tourist destination, for several reasons. Nevertheless, has excellent conditions for the exploitation of tourist activity. To achieve this objective, it will be necessary to overcome obstacles inherent to the Angolan tourism sector, such as the lack of training of many professionals and tourist operators. Tourism, like any other sector, creates risks of negative impact on the environment. The biggest problems are the excessive use of resources, pollution and aspects related to the tourist's behaviour towards the environment they visit. In this context, sustainable tourism is the only option to minimize the negative effects of traditional tourism and promote the much-needed post-pandemic economic growth, specially in Africa, where it is estimated that the tourism sector will have lost close to 50B€ since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis. In view of the above, the main objective of this project is to improve the capacity of Angola and Cabo Verde Universities to develop innovative training in the area of sustainable tourism that improves employability, promotes entrepreneurship and economic growth.

The general objective of the EnoTour project is to bolster regional development and innovation in the enotourism, sector by creating and sustaining public-private digital solutions for training, up-skilling, business innovation and marketing. The project is driven by a European network of universities, professional education providers, wine cooperatives, wineries and regional tourist boards in in Catalunya, Porto, Veneto and Bordeaux, with the following specific objectives:-Develop digital tools to support the wine tourism sectors in comparable European wine regions, to bolster local and international enotourism;-Create innovative pathways to obtain micro-credentials in the wine industry, targeted at students, professionals and lifelong learners, so as to revive the human resources needed to innovate and sustain the sector;-Provide sustainable solutions to professionalise and market local wine industries, based on collaborative public-private, intra- and interregional approaches.EnoTour‘s main output is to develop, pilot and expand the EnoTour Virtual Platform which will provide opportunities to several target groups, under the same umbrella, as a means to link training, professional development and enotourism touristic offers. It's first Component – the Educational Component – will adapt internationally developed study modules in the wine sector into MOOCs, available as micro-credentials for university, VET students and managers and professionals in the wine sector. The second Component – the Corporative Component –provides wineries of different sizes and capacities the opportunity to not only undergo a Self-Assessment for their business enotourism sector. The third Component offers a a platform for connecting tourists and wineries, via interactive virtual solutions, visits, tastings and other experiences supported by AI. In addition to this innovative tool, the project itself positions enotourism as an important dimension of local development.

DigiGradAfrica aims to enhance the quality and relevance of training for graduate students and young researchers in Africa, especially for the attainment of Africa regional and global development goals, through harnessing the opportunities provided by digitalization and internationalization. DigiGrad Africa assumes that international collaborations/partnerships are one of the ways of enhancing research capacities/postgraduate training in Africa and new opportunities of digitalization can be strategically deployed to enhance internationalization and research/postgraduate training capacities in African universities.The partnership unites 8 universities from Ghana, Kenya, Burundi, and South Sudan, drawing on their different strengths and catering to their different capacity needs, who are members of the African Network for Internationalization of Education who coordinates the project with support from OBREAL Global and universities from The Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Belgium. The project will:Refine and articulate HEI strategies for digitalization and internationalization, specifically as it relates to training graduates and young researcher; Build HEI staff capacity in African universities to manage internationalisation of graduate studies, including the capacity to facilitate greater intra-African student and researcher exchange; Build HEI staff capacity in African Universities to use digital tools to strengthen graduate and post-graduate training and internationalise it; Build the capacity of young researchers to exploit digitalization, develop and sustain a network of young African researchersThe outputs include: The development of robust strategy documents for digitalising, internationalisation, and research enhancement and a Handbook; HEI research supervisors and staff of IROs are trained in harnessing digitalisation for internationalisation; A virtual post-graduate student training programme is launched; An African young researchers' network is lauched

Western Balkan countries are on their way for integration to European Union. Besides the harmonization of law, improvement of institutional capabilities is another important agenda in this process. Considering this, establishment of EU model university-enterprise cooperation is crucial for WBC.The main objective of SUCCESS is to establish of university-enterprise cooperation by forming a partnership in the areas of education and knowledge transfer based on the market needs, as well as creating wide university-enterprise cooperation network in Western Balkan countries. These goals are aimed to be achieved through a steady collaboration among WBC universities and enterprises from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and Montenegro, and EU universities from, Poland Spain, Serbia and Germany. Considering this, main activities foreseen within the project are as follows: Exploring the partnership models in EU and WBC, university – enterprise partnership, modernization of curricula by introducing practice-oriented teaching and learning, introducing internship programme in cooperation with business sector, reinforcing of existing structures and establishing start-up services. Successful implementation of those activities will lead to the increasing graduates employability. The results of the project are: university – business network established at each WBC, Regional network cooperation platform set-up and implemented, 4 common projects between partner universities and business sector created at each WBC HEIs, new updated courses/programmes implemented at WBC universities in cooperation with business sector, start-up services at WBC universities established and functional, academic staff trained in the practice-oriented teaching, internship programmes developed and introduced at 8 WBC universities. All of the activities and results of the project will be disseminated through the network established within the project.