erasmus+

This week representatives from universities in Europe and China are meeting in Kraków, Poland, to kick-off the Erasmus+ project CIPnet - China Intellectual Property Management Network, coordinated by Jagiellonian University and in which the University of Alicante is a partner as leader of the Benchmarking and Needs Analysis Activities and the Quality Assurance work packages. The UA is represented by OGPI senior project manager Noelia López.

The University of Alicante has welcomed today the partners of the V2WORK project in its Campus of San Vicente del Raspeig for the Kick off Meeting of 'Strengthening the Vietnamese Higher Educatin System to Improve Graduates Employability and Entrepreneurship Skills'  (V2WORK ), a project coordinated by the University of Alicante and co-funded by the European Commission within the framework of the Erasmus + program. 

The V2WORK project objective is to strengthen the capabilities of the higher education system of Vietnam to improve the employability and entrepreneurship skills of its students and graduates, and strengthen its relations with the labor market.

This week representatives from universities in Europe and Indonesia met in Graz, Austria, to kick-off the Erasmus+ project INSPIRE  (Introducing Social Entrepreneurship in Indonesian Higher Education), coordinated by FH JOANNEUM University and in which the University of Alicante is a partner as leader of the Exploration & Knowledge Transfer and the Quality Assurance work packages. The UA was represented by OGPI senior project manager Noelia López and by Institutional Entrepreneurship & Employability Programme manager Víctor Climent. 

The 1st International Conference of the Latinamerican Social Innovation Network took place in Panama City, Panama, on September 28^th and 29^th, 2017. It was organized by the Erasmus+ funded project LASIN, in which the University of Alicante is a partner.

Last week representatives from universities in Europe and South Africa met at Glasgow Caledonian University to discuss Social Innovation and Digital Storytelling in the framework of the Erasmus+ project Common Good First, coordinated by GCU and in which the University of Alicante is a partner as leader of the Quality Monitoring work package. The UA was represented by OGPI senior project manager Cristina Beans. The consortium was also joined by the EU appointed Project Officer from Brussels and a representative from the Scottish Government’s Department of Social Enterprise, Social Innovation and Social Investment, who are also contributing funding to the initiative.

Last 25th May the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), which manages different EU education programmes on behalf of the European Commission, organised a cluster meeting for all Vietnamese Higher Education Institution partners of selected Capacity Building for Higher Education projects. Representatives from the ENHANCE and REACT projects coordinated by the University of Alicante, were selected to attend the Cluster Meeting.
The main aim of meeting that took place at the Novotel Saigon Hotel in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, was to seek synergies and identify the different challenges and best practices. The following topics were addressed: experience in international cooperation, experiences in the implementation and management of projects under the Eramus + programme, main challenges faced and dissemination of project results.

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.

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.

Rossana Pinna and Inmaculada Caturla have been in Brussels January 25th and 26th participating in the Conference Capacity Building for Higher Education Project Representatives Meeting.
The OGPI Financial Management experts have been representing two winning projects in the last ERASMUS + K2 call (Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education EAC / A04 / 2015). In particular, they presesented REACT project (Strengthening climate change REsearch And innovation CapaciTies in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) and INDOEDUC4ALL (Ensuring Access and Quality Education for Students with Disabilities in Indonesian Universities).