Quality in Higher Education about Renewable Energies in North and West Africa

This project was built as a continuation of the QESAMED Tempus project (2013-2016). The number of Partners has been enlarged from 12 to 24, the geographical influence has been extended to new areas (Europe, North and West Africa) and a new major issue has been included: renewable energies applied to agriculture, agronomy and agri-food chains.

Sustainable access to energy is an absolute necessity in Africa to cope, among others, with climate changes. Renewable energies represent a big challenge and the rise of new environmental technologies opens innovative perspectives.

AFREQEN is an Erasmus+ "Capacity Building in Higher Education" project, which brings together 24 French-speaking partners. The project aims at enhancing the development of skills by co-developing higher education and vocational training programs focussed on the key dimensions of metrology and quality management applied to the field of renewable energies.

The CIHEAM-IAMM is in charge of the WP5: support the partners in the development of e-learning modules. It fosters production through the pooling of professional skills (video production, pedagogical engineering, sound recording, video shooting...) and the training of teams who could perpetuate the production of e-learning courses.

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Objectives

Two objectives are targeted by AFREQEN:

• Develop e-learning modules: initial (masters) and vocational training about metrology and quality management applied to the fields of renewable energies and energy efficiency.
• Support the full implementation of skills in quality management and metrology within the partner institutions, not only regarding their education programmes but also the transfer of results of research.

Activities

• Develop initial training modules in quality management and metrology applied to renewable energies;
• Build e-learning resources to target a larger public, at controlled costs  (Moocs).
• Organize workshops to mobilize the managers of the agricultural and agro-food sectors and increase their awareness about quality management and metrology issues in respect of competitiveness;
• Implement training-action sessions;
• Build a network of expertise and experience sharing;
• Support the transfer of technology and the quality certification of trainings.

Results and impacts

• Production and online availability of e-learning resources
• Institutions  with certified quality  management systems
• Research labs with strengthened skills and equipment
• Trained professionals through training-action sessions

Coordinator

Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM) - France

More information

Source of funding : UE – Erasmus+ Key action n° 2: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices - Capacity-building in the field of higher education; Call for proposals EAC/A04/2015

Contacts:

• Marc HIMBERT (CNAM), France (marc.himbert@lecnam.net)
• Luc MARTIN (CIRAD), France (luc.martin@cirad.fr)
• Pierre ARRAGON (CIHEAM-IAMM), France (fad@iamm.fr)

Total budget: 1 000 000 €

Partners :

• Ecole nationale supérieure agronomie (ENSA) ; Université Mohamed Khider de Biskra (UMBK) - Algeria
• Agence française de la francophonie (AUF) - Dir. Régionale Europe de l'Ouest - France
• Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) - Belgique
• Institut international d'ingénierie de l'eau et de l'environnement (2iE)
• Université Ouagadougou (UOUAG) - Burkina Faso
• Institut national polytechnique Houphouët-Boigny (INPHB)
• Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (UFHB) - CI
• Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) - Espagne
• Comité africain de métrologie (CAFMET) - France
• Centre international d'études pédagogiques (CIEP) - France
• CIHEAM - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier (CIHEAM-IAMM) - France
• Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD) - France
• Qualité en recherche et en enseignement supérieur (QuaRES) - France
  Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD) - France
• Conseil régional de l'oriental (CRO) - Maroc
• Institut agronomique vétérinaire (IAV Hassan II) - Maroc
• Université Cadi Ayyad (UCAM) - Maroc
• ENDA -Energie environnement développement ; Université Cheikh
• Anta Diop (UCAD) - Sénégal
• Université Gaston Berger (UGB) - Sénégal
• Université Carthage (UCAR) - Tunisie
• Université de Monastir (UMON) - Tunisie