This year the European Commission approved a total of 151 projects in Capacity Building in Higher Education.
The FH Campus Vienna with the partner countries Ghana and Rwanda (“CONMAT – Strengthening Conflict Management and Transformation Studies in Africa”) and the University of Graz with Thailand and Vietnam (“Green-Edu-Seeds – Fostering green skills in Vietnam and Thailand by introducing strategically pinpointed educational seeds for academic and business education with a focus on impact-promising sectors”) will be funded as coordinators.
The FH Joanneum appears four times in the list of partners: in the project “SLEEK – Sierra Leone Education in Entrepreneurial pedagogy and sKills” with the partner country Sierra Leone, in “TUNE – Nurture Future Green Leader” with Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam, in “INTRABUILD – Cultivating Academic Intrapreneurship in Western Balkans” with Albania and Kosovo and in “DUALBA – Strengthening capacities for the implementation of dual education in Albanian higher education” with Albania.
Other partnerships include University of Applied Sciences Campus 02 (“PubCirEco – Critical role of PUBlic employees in CIRcular ECOnomy implementation: Embedding circular economy thinking in higher education institutions” with Moldova and Ukraine), the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (“BLENDED-IDEA – Blended Learning Environments for Nepal's Dynamic Energy Development using an Interactive Distance Education Approach” with the partner country Nepal), the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (“WB-Edu4Migration – Mitigating Migration Challenges in the Western Balkans: Bridging the Skills Gap for Social Care Providers via Curricula Enhancement and Micro Credential Development” with Albania and Kosovo), the Private University College of Teacher Education of the Diocese of Linz (“PROVE – Promoting Values Education in South Caucasus Higher Education Institutions” with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia), the Graz University of Technology (“EduRob – Developing Future Educators’ Digital Competence Through Introducing Robotics into Curriculum” with Ukraine) and the University for Continuing Education Krems (“GDCAU – Green Deal for Central Asian Universities” with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan).
Thus universities of applied sciences are involved in two thirds of the Austrian projects mentioned.
Austria's success rate is 17%, while the international rate is 15.5%. Further information about the projects is available here.
