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The University of Alicante delivered an online training on Social Impact Assessment within the framework of the MORALE project from 18^th to 20^th May 2021. Representatives from 7 Lebanese and Syrian Higher Education Institutions together with more 50 NGO professionals from the region were taught by Dr. Guadalupe Ortiz, Senior Lecturer of the Sociology Department from the University of Alicante. The participants were provided with an in-depth understanding of the core concepts and methodological steps of the Social Impact Assessment discipline and reflected upon its implementation on NGO actions measured according to social impacts within their own contexts. The MORALE project is part of the Capacity Building Higher Education initiative, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union in Lebanon and Syria. It aims at improving NGO capacities by collaborating with Higher Education providers in the region and is coordinated by the Beirut Arab University.

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.

The University of Alicante participated in the MORALE Kick Off Meeting held from 14^th October to 16^th October 2019 in Beirut (Lebanon). Delegates from 7 Lebanese and Syrian Higher Education Institutions, 1 NGO from Greece, 1 German University, together with different NGO professionals from the region, assembled to celebrate the Kick Off Meeting of the  MORALE project. This 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.

The project aims to strengthen to the capacities of Syrian & Lebanese HEIs to train a new generation of high skilled professionals trained by PC HEIs to effectively manage and operate in NGO environment, enhancing inclusion of refugees and the rebuilding of the South Mediterranean society. MORALE will achieve this goal by delivering capacity building actions and trainings, modernizing curricula offers at partner countries as well as devising lifelong learning courses for professionals on the field.