In the EU-BEGP project nine universities in Latin America (Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru) will collaborate with two universities in EU (France, Spain) towards modernisation of courses and programs in the energy sector, with emphasis upon circular economy towards energy sustainability. The collaboration is inspired by two earlier successful Erasmus+ CBHE projects. It will re-use both the framework and learning material developed from these projects while developing and implementing specific new courses and programs adapted for the local conditions in the partner countries. More specifically it will significantly enhance capacity building on an educator-to-educator basis towards a significant modernisation of energy curriculum in the partner countries. The project will contribute on the paradigm shift towards global-but-local student-centred education in a digital and online learning environment.The EU-BGEP project will allow collaborative creation of learning material to create/update programs and courses, which includes a baseline of 3 Master programs, 1 “Diplomado” program, 3 expert courses, 15 courses, and 7 short courses, with more than 1000 expected students to be trained at the end of the project in all the partner countries. Furthermore, 10 remote labs will be implemented, enabling real experimental experience to students in remote areas, and 10 entrepreneurial challenges will be run in collaboration with local industries, thus contributing to the employability of young professionals. A specific Quality Improvement Process, with transnational and global peer review, will be implemented throughout all the learning resources, ranging from individual modules through courses and full programs.A significant strength of the EU-BEGP project is that it is part of an intended global collaboration of online digital learning resources, courses, and programs in the energy sector (the “EXPLORE Energy Digital Academy”). All material developed will be included in this framework and the EU-BEGP consortium will have full access to all the already existing, and to be developed, high-quality material. Such global collaboration takes this Erasmus+ CBHE project to a higher level by projects building upon each other, strongly increasing the impact far beyond what an isolated CBHE project would reach.

EUBBC-Digital will create a completely new way of educational collaboration between 8 universities in Bolivia, Brazil and Cuba, with the support of 7 universities & 3 SMEs in Europe. The partners will prove that it is possible to, in the digital environment of today, create a set of “global but local” “Dilpomado programs” of interest to the Latin American partner universities through re-using and sharing a number of available digital learning units, adapting these towards the local environments for the respective regions and by creating new units for global use. It will be proven that re-use of such learning units will allow for efficient creation of local degree-awarding programs, in which the teacher-collaboration will become extremely powerful and efficient. It will furthermore be proven that such a system will allow universities in less advanced economic regions to leap-frog a significant number of barriers and collaborate on more equal, but less broad, terms with highly reputed global HEIs.The project emphasizes several new aspects: • Sharing/re-using high-quality educational units from various sources allows the partners to create new, modern courses without having all the competences and human resources within the whole program area• This “share-economy” allows a “global but local” perspective in which the degree-awarding HEIs in emerging economies combine expertise from international and local specialists, offering courses and programs based upon the local community/citizens needs• Sharing and combining expertise from international and local specialists increases the quality of the educational material• It gives learners the freedom to learn from a broad perspective of international teachersEUBBC-Digital builds, through participation of academic & administrative staff, capacity towards detailed learning units as well as new types of degree-awarding academic programs created through enhanced international collaboration with globally developed OERs