Qualité en enseignement supérieur pour les énergies renouvelables en Afrique du Nord et de l’Ouest Erasmus Project

Project Title

Qualité en enseignement supérieur pour les énergies renouvelables en Afrique du Nord et de l’Ouest

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The major objective of the AFREQEN project is to increase the adaptability of higher and professional education system in Algeria, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia in the field of renewable energies and environment. The mean is to develop professional aspects in education, and to implement a quality process of continuous improvement within the institutions of training and applied research. AFREQEN will thus contribute to sustainable development and to growing up of renewable energies in North and West Africa. AFREQEN aims to establish:- Bases for the acquisition of skills in quality management and in metrological control, by designing, testing and diffusing initial (I) and professional (P) training modules, including e-learning ones, with up-to-date knowledge in renewable energies : biomass, solar, wind … The module construction will address the requirements issued from a study of the needs of the social, economic, agronomic and industrial sectors in the African transaharian region.- Capacities in the academic institutions for the implementation of the quality approach : for students at engineers, Master and Doctorate levels; for adults at manager (awareness) and professional (training sessions) levels; for research and technology transfer among researchers, teachers and other ‘staff from the academic area’, with specific credits.- The networking of higher education institutions and research institutes in the partnering countries with the EU member states, using a previous sustainable and evolutive cloud platform of expertise and experience sharing, enlarged to new environmental technologies and to new African countries.The consortium brings together major actors in the partnering countries and relevant international institutions related to development.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 999622 Eur

Project Coordinator

CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL DES ARTS ET METIERS & Country: FR

Project Partners

• UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA
• UNIVERSITE DE PERPIGNAN
• CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE HAUTES ETUDES AGRONOMIQUES MEDITERRANEENNES
• FRANCE EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL
• ASSOCIATION POUR LA QUALITE EN RECHERCHE ET EN ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR
• COMITE AFRICAIN DE METROLOGIE
• UNIVERSITE CADI AYYAD