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On 20^th and 21^st July 2020, the International Conference “Sustainable Tourism: Shaping a better future” took place at Ramada Plaza by Wyndham Bangkok Menam Riverside Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, hosted by the Faculty of Business Administration, Kasetsart University. The conference was attended by more than 100 delegates representing universities, regional institutions and tourist organisations from Asia, Europe and North America. The participants who were unable to travel to Thailand due to the COVID virus pandemic followed the conference online.

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.

EMINENT has finished its Online Training with the celebration of the last combination of Masterclass and Tutorial Meetings on Self-Evaluation of Study Programmes, led by the University College Cork (Ireland) from 13^th July to 17^th July and in close collaboration with Haitian partners.

As a pioneer institution on Quality Assurance policy in Europe and drawing upon their extensive expertise on this field, the University College Cork framed a training centered around the concepts of Self-evaluation and learning outcomes formulation. With this purpose, the University College of Cork delivered a Masterclass which covered in-depth all the practical aspects of these concepts, looking into the details of operationalization, data collection and organizational elements of the Self-Evaluation process but also analysing the intricacies of  reformulating study programmes according to learning outcomes.

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.

OPEN partners met on July, 8th for the 2nd Virtual meeting to follow up on project progress and activities made so far. The main discussion was focused on the advances related to the WP 1: Need Analysis. A recent survey “The state of internationalisation in Laos: need analysis & mission sharing”, developed by UNIBO, was successfully completed by all Laotian partners

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.

From June 30^th to July 3^rd, the V2WORK project held a Sustainable Network Workshop hosted by the University of Danang, with participation of the EU partners online. Like so many others, V2WORK has had to adapt to the new limitations of working in a Covid-19 world. With international travel restrictions in place, and partners in Europe working from home, the project has designed a blended-format workshop, with the Vietnamese partners all gathered in Danang to facilitate discussions and joint working sessions, and the European partners participating through the videoconferencing platform Livestorm. The objective of the workshop was to establish a collaborative environment in which the V2WORK partners can work together to define and create a network that will support future collaboration between Vietnamese universities regarding student and graduate employability and entrepreneurship. In order to adapt to the time difference between Vietnam and Europe, the workshop was structured so has to have online sessions in the afternoons (in Vietnam), and group working sessions in the mornings between the Vietnamese partners.

La UA - Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad de Alicante está participando en el proyecto Europeo Projet Cudimha Master en Histoire et Archéologie ("Desarrollo curricular: un Máster innovador en historia y arqueología") que tiene como objetivo desarrollar un programa de Máster que proporcione a los estudiantes más conocimientos y herramientas dentro del área de la comunicación y valorización del patrimonio cultural mediterráneo. Se trata de un programa internacional que involucrará a 9 universidades europeas y tunecinas, que dará inicio el próximo 1 de Octubre de 2020 y se llevará a cabo en modo mixto (un semestre en línea y un semestre presencial).

El próximo 9 de julio tendrá lugar la Jornada de Puertas Abiertas a través de Zoom y en las redes sociales, donde los profesores presentarán las asignaturas y podrán contestar a la preguntas sobre Máster. La información sobre este máster y sobre el Info Day está disponible a través del siguiente enlace.

On June 9, 2020, the first coordination meeting of the ACCESS project was held, bringing together representatives of 2 higher education institutions from Costa Rica, 4 from Cuba and 5 from the Dominican Republic, the Ministries of Higher Education of these Latin American countries, the University of Macedonia and the University of Alicante, the project coordinator. The meeting, scheduled for July at the University of Macedonia, Greece, was held virtually because of the current inability of the project partners to travel. The objective of the meeting was to present the current status of the project, the next activities to be carried out and the responsibilities of the partners. During the meeting a question-and -answer session was established to solve the doubts of the partners both at technical and financial level. Also, for the review of the financial aspects of the project an evaluation test was conducted among all the attendees, being the dynamics of the meeting more participative.

The University of Alicante, as a European reference in accessibility, sustainability and internationalization, brings together more than 100 representatives of universities and ministries from Latin America, Asia and Europe in an open dialogue to strengthen the Higher Education system by means of European Erasmus+ funds.

From the 3^rd to the 6^th of March 2020, the University of Alicante welcomed rectors, academic vice-rectors and managers from 35 universities -both public and private- and ministries from Laos, Malaysia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Italy, Austria, Greece and Spain. The reason for this meeting was the launch of the "ACCESS", "MYSUN" and "OPEN" projects, financed by the European Union with the participation of the International Project Management Office (OGPI) of the University of Alicante.