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The International conference Third Age Education: East and West Experience is taking place between 21-22 of April in Baku (Azerbaijan) in the framework of TEMPUS CTAE project. The conference aims to disseminate the project best practices on creation and ensuring the institutional and financial sustainability of the national system of Centers of the 'Third Age" Education for the implementation of priority directions of the Madrid International Plan of Action on population ageing, as well as social, cultural and political contribution of senior people for community and their effective participation in the decision-making at all levels. University of Alicante, one of the CTAE project partners, is being represented by OGPI Project manager Olga Bloshchinska.

Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam are the three countries on which the new European project takes its first steps this week at the University of Alicante (UA). REACT (strenghtening climate change REsearch And innovation Capacities in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) aims to strengthen the area of research on climate change issues in these Asian countries. Coordinated by the UA and with the participation of 11 partners, the project is funded by the EU under the Erasmus + program and lasts for three years.

The next REACT meeting will be held in Laos in October, at the Souphanouvong University in Luang Prabang.

The first IHEI training on "Globalisation vs Internationalisation" has just been completed with success. It has been celebrated at the University of Shiraz and delivered by Pablo López Alonso,  from Glasgow Caledonian University, and Ester Boldrini, Deputy Director of OGPI- University of Alicante, and with the active participation of the six partner Iranian Universities, but also representatives from the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran.

These days, the 27 of February - 1st of March, the Kick of meeting of Erasmus+ project SEASIN Southeast Asian Social Innovation Network is taking place in Glasgow Caledonian University. The project, under the coordination of GCU, involves partners from Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar as well as two EU universities from Spain and Portugal.

The SEASIN project directly responds to the societal challenges of South East Asian society and proposes the creation of specific units established within universities to support knowledge transfer for social innovation. The University of Alicante is represented by Víctor Climent and Olga Bloshchinska.