The Erasmus+ Capacity Building (CBHE) project Strategic Support for Accreditation of Programs and Internationalization at South Asian Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) - SSAPI has been funded by the European Union. It started in January 2021 with a duration of three years. Dr. Amir Qayyum, Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Pakistan, initiated and coordinates the project. The European partners are the University of Bremen (UniHB), particularly the IGS, and the University of Évora, Portugal. Eight further universitites are partner in SSAPI. They are from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and the Maldives. The aim of the CBHE is to create learning and practicing opportunities for partner country HEIs’ staff including administrative staff, faculty, students and researchers. Trainings will focus on learning from EU partners, and developing procedures to modernize the local education systems. This project will contribute effectively in creating reforms in the overall higher education system of the partner universities. Due to the restrictions of the Covid pandemic, the consortium decided in the beginning some adjustments to the initial work plan and added a phase of online training units to the training concept. The following messures have been implemented by now:
The next project meeting will take place in the beginning of December in Sri Lanka. SSAPI will contribute to the next SKIMA conference, held in Malaysia in December 2023, to share the gained knowledge and experience with further Asian partners.
SSAPI (Strategic Support for Accreditation of Programs and Internationalization at South Asian Higher Education Institutes) is a project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Capacity Building Programme of the European Union: Project Ref No. 619438-EPP-1-2020-1-PK-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP
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