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The University of Alicante hosted a Virtual Study Visit within the framework of the MORALE project from 7^th to 8^th October 2020. Representatives from 7 Lebanese and Syrian Higher Education Institutions and 1 German University, together with different NGO professionals from the region, congregated online to participate in this event of experience sharing and exposure to international practices in the field of cooperation and development teaching as well as refugees and migration management . The MORALE project is part of the  Capacity Building Higher Education initiative, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union and coordinated by the Beirut Arab University.

During the two days meeting, MORALE partners firstly focused on becoming acquainted with the Study programme offer of the University of Alicante related to sustainable NGO management. As such, they discussed in-depth the content of “Interuniversity Master in Cooperation for Development of the University of Alicante” with Dr. Moisés Hidalgo, academic director of the Master, specially looking into the different academic modules that could be transposed to the Syrian and Lebanese context. They continued working on getting familiar with the Environmental Impact Assessment with Dr. Jose Enrique Tomás from the Ecology department, as well as, being exposed to the basic concepts of Social Impact Assessment with Dr. Guadalupe Ortiz from the Sociology department.

From the 20^th to the 22^nd of July 2020 the 1^st ACCESS training “Inclusive Education: Context and Background” was conducted on-line, jointly delivered by the University of Alicante (UA) and the University of Macedonia (UOM).

This first training was supposed to be held on the same dates at the University of Macedonia in Greece, together with a study visit and a coordination meeting. However, due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, in order to continue with the project activities as initially planned, the training was conducted on-line using the Livestorm webinar platform. The use of this platform has allowed sharing presentation and videos, questions and answer sessions, a practical workshop and open discussions with moderation by the project coordinator, UA. Furthermore, the three sessions have been recorded allowing partners to view the sessions at any time.

Following upon their contingency plan, EMINENT consortium celebrated from Monday 6^th July to Friday 10^th July, their 2^nd Masterclass and Tutorial Meetings on Internal Quality Assurance System conceptualization, led by the University of Alicante. 

Counting upon the participation of their Vice rectorate of Quality Assurance, the University of Alicante recorded a Masterclass, delving into the complexity of formulating Quality Assurance policy at internal level and articulating the adequate mechanisms and tools to ensure the achievement of quality on Higher Education services provision. This lecture drawn upon the institutional and personal experiences of the University of Alicante in creating and developing their own Quality Assurance system throughout the last decades, integrating into the Bologna Process and meeting the standards set within the European Higher Education Area.

EMINENT consortium has devised a contingency plan to carry forward with capacity building actions, coping with the disruption generated by the COVID-19 global pandemic. This Online Training comes in substitution of D3.3.1. Train of Trainers (Module IV) which was supposed to be held in March 2020, facilitating than Haitian partners advance further on knowledge transfer and experience adaptation on Quality Assurance within Higher Education during these uncertain times.