Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) emerged as a key approach in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-30), which aims to scale-up restoration of degraded ecosystems to combat the climate crisis while enhancing and protecting livelihoods, food security, water, and biodiversity. Global support to strengthen and fund forest and other ecosystem restoration faces a major challenge: the mismatch between the opportunities for restoration and the capacity (knowledge, skills) needed to support it. Bangladesh and Vietnam are among the most vulnerable countries to climate change, and have a range of policies and programmes to promote and scale-up FLR. Their higher education systems are however, unable to produce graduates that fulfil the domestic or international needs related to FLR. Our general objective is to strengthen the capacity of partner HEIs to contribute to well-functioning, relevant and accessible FLR education to meet the needs of graduates, employers, and other stakeholders, for the broader benefit of the environment and society. The consortium includes 7 core partners (EU/2, Bangladesh/2, & Vietnam/3), as well as a range of international, regional, and national Associate Partners. The project builds on previous EU partner experience in capacity building projects in Asia to improve accessibility, internationalization, and modernization of partner HEI’s FLR-related capacity by transferring experience, competencies, and good practices. The design of 7 specific objectives and 6 WPs were informed by a systematic assessment of the needs and constraints of target countries, Partner HEIs, stakeholders and final beneficiaries, and linking them with the EU Call priorities and a range of FLR-related international, regional, and national processes. A range of interconnected project activities will be implemented to achieve the objectives, with the aim to empower a new generation of multidisciplinary graduates to embed FLR into their socioeconomic and cultural context