About Aligning
ALIGNING aims to promote agricultural innovation in Asian least-developed agrarian countries by increasing, first, the innovation capacity of Asian HEIS, and second, by providing farmers and agribusiness practitioners, solutions for a more sustainable and climate-resilient business growth. In the short term, the project will contribute to: (a) validating existing needs analysis in agriculture and climate change as well as analysing current sustainable adaptation practices; (b) improving the capacities of Asian HEIs in innovative actions (d) linking academia with the private sector. This will create a multiplier effect for the recognition of sustainable agriculture as an individual study area and career choice, which will result in a transformed academic environment and a more sustainable economic growth in the context of a least-developed country.
Read moreObjectives
· O1. Improve the match between curricula of Higher Education Institutes and human capital needs of businesses in a joint effort to address both business challenges and opportunities from climate change.
· O2. Develop novel, peer-centered and market relevant curricula in agriculture and climate change relevant for least-developed countries in the Asian context.
· O3. Promote the lifelong learning dimension of Higher Education including by facilitating the take-up, validation and recognition of the short learning courses leading to micro- credentials for Higher Education students and professionals.
· O4. Provide necessary interdisciplinary skills required in agribusiness on issues relating to climate change.
· O5. Increase awareness on climate emergency and offer sustainable solutions to agribusinesses’ challenges.
· O6. Support the Higher Education sector in least-developed countries becoming even more interconnected, innovative, inclusive and digital.
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