MIMIr- ANDINO is primarly designed to aid, assist and soccour partner universities in Latin America to understand the status quo of their innovation and research management systems, performance, efficacy, and practices and devise pathways to overcome impediments, hindrances, fiascos and pitfalls that prevent them from achieving recognised stature in the international landscape. The core tread to accomplish this goal is to measure existing innovation and research activities, to gauge regulatory framework management, administration and tools, and to scope opportunities for overcoming bureaucratic obstacles, stimulating conditions and elevate mindsets. Coupled to provision of comparative analysis to European processes, practices and state-of-the-art, the consortium will identify areas for change, targets for improvement, and a trajectory to excel. Accordingly, partner universities will be informed on the organisation of management of innovation and research in European universities, understand present model, principles, and standards, and embrace and partake the opportunity for support, guidance and corroboration from European partners.

STARS (Spatial Tools for Assessing Risks in Sudden natural hazards) uses recent advances in science, technology, and the ever-growing data sources related to Earth monitoring, to contribute to a deeper knowledge of natural hazards phenomena and the challenging prevention and mitigation of their effects in Equatorial regions. Earthquakes, landslides, and floods are sudden natural disasters of particular concern in South America, occurring without prior warning and catching people unprepared to handle event consequences.Science and technology have provided instrumentation and monitoring with geospatial data at the appropriate scale as critical tools to prevent major impacts of such events. Recent technological advances in geospatial data analytics, namely in Geographic Information Systems, Geospatial Artificial Intelligence, and Building Information Models, can support the response to such challenges by handling data critical to the modelling and processing that ultimately will support decisions on disaster prevention and mitigation. Building capacities to operate effectively these technological tools and associated geospatial data is of the utmost importance. However, current university curricula do not cover the most recent advances in the mentioned technologies, both in geospatial data sourcing and processing.STARS fills the identified gaps at the higher education level in South America's Equatorial region by collaboratively developing curricula, contents and materials for three modular innovative courses, modernizing laboratories, setting up an e-learning environment, and building training capacity in four Ecuadorian and Colombian universities. These main results and outputs will also be disseminated amongst associate partners and society.