The PERFORM project aspire to contribute to resolve the lack of qualified post-basic teachers in Madagascar.This project aims at designing and implementing an hybrid continuing education system for post-basic education teachers. It will be based on a collaborative approach in both design and implementation. The methodology is based on these principles:- Training on hybrid training design for a group of teacher trainers at European universities;- Training of teachers for teacher training colleges by this group of trainers, with the support of European experts;- Co-design of a hybrid training device by a group of teachers from teacher training colleges and post-basic education teachers including the training time itself ;Through the device put in place:- 185 teacher trainers are trained in the design of a hybrid training device;- 1,000 post-basic education teachers in the priority disciplines set by the ministries (mathematics, physics, chemistry, French and computer science) are trained in the didactics of their disciplines, as well as in education sciences and in French.At the end of the project:- The teachers of the teacher training colleges have the necessary skills to extend the system to initial training or even to other disciplines if necessary;- Post-basic education teachers have improved their capacities and adopted the use of new technologies;- Teachers are able to innovate by integrating a collaborative dimension into their teaching practices.The PERFORM project has been endorsed and is supported by the three Malagasy ministries of education who intend to make the system sustainable, with the teaching policy being at the heart of the priorities of the 2018-2022 Education Sector Plan.In the long term, the impact of the project is to reduce the repetition and drop-out rates of post-basic education students and increase the success rate of the “baccalaureate” (end of post-basic education degree).

Based on the model of the European Economic Community, the ten countries of Southeast Asia making up ASEAN signed an agreement in November 2015 opening the way for the creation of an ASEAN community. The ambition of the countries of ASEAN is to develop a common market through the free flow of persons, goods and investment capital. However the development gap and quality of higher education and research among the ten member countries is still very evident. In this context it appears necessary to reinforce the research and innovation policy in Cambodia.Since the 2000s, Cambodia’s universities have been developing research projects and joint degree programs with European countries. However, the universities must now take on new challenges relating to building their institutional capacity in the areas of governance and quality control. Economic development and training of the future generations requires the modernizing of university structures.The project proposes to build capacity in partner institutions in the fields of research and innovation in the humanities, as well as, more broadly, to impact the operation of Cambodian higher education systems and to develop a ‘research culture’. Based on the competencies of partners and advanced university education, the project will offer training sessions and workshops for university faculties and students. These training sessions will deal with such crucial know-how and knowledge fields as control quality policy, human resources, writing project drafts, bibliographic research, and intellectual property and developing international partnerships.In tandem with training activities and with a precise focus on the human and material needs, an inter-university team of researchers will be established