TCountries in the Southeast Asia, including Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar are experiencing rapid economic growth, and it is anticipated that GHG emissions in the region will increase rapidly. These countries are also among the most vulnerable countries when it comes to the effects of climate change.Simultaneously, a significant proportion of rural households lack access to modern energy services. In face of climate change, there is a strong need to support building sustainable energy pathways. Responses to the challenges present in the energy-poverty-environment-climate nexus call for multidisciplinary and situated knowledge and capacities. The project responded to the identified needs of the Mekong HEIs to:1.create sustainable energy engineering curricula, 2.improve sustainable energy knowledge, innovative pedagogical approaches, skills to foster research oriented learning,3.improve international, national and regional networks.The DEEM project aimed to integrate future and sustainability thinking, promote innovation and entrepreneurship, build public-private partnerships and include innovative teaching methods. Associate partners from the governmental and civil society sectors provided guidance on most relevant challenges and skills needed. The wider objective of the project was to ensure partner HEIs are able to respond to the capacity and employment needs of sustainable energy development in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. The objective has a direct link to strengthening the integration of sustainable energy goals into national level energy policies, providing qualified energy experts into the local, national and regional labor markets and fostering greater collaboration between the public and private sectors and increasing regional level cooperation and mobility in research, entrepreneurship and innovation. The project directly influenced the modernisation and internationalisation of HEIs, and in the long term, contributed to sustainable energy policies, mitigation of climate GHG emissions and climate change, promoting energy security and better access to energy for all.Between 2016 and 2019 more than one thousand participants from Asian partner universities attended workshops, seminars and trainings organized by DEEM. This figure contains both staff from partner universities and advanced students working on their Master’s degrees, representing the next generation of teaching staff.New learning opportunities were created during the DEEM period in participating partner country institutions. National University of Laos launched its new Master’s Programme in Energy Management, built from the ground up using all new courses, and University of Yangon developed a Master’s Programme on Environmental and Water Management. Yangon Technological University designed a new diploma course on renewable energy and opened four PhD positions on Renewable Energy.In total, at Institute of Technology of Cambodia, 11 courses gained new substance and teaching approaches from DEEM. At Royal University of Phnom Penh, the project management was comprehensively overhauled, and 8 other courses benefited from updated teaching approaches. Yangon Technological University updated the content of 6 courses, and University of Yangon updated its course on environmental studies and planned to update all undergraduate courses in physics during 2020.During the project period, a total of 178 mobilities were undertaken, and various MOUs were signed strengthening and facilitating collaboration and networking between HEIs in the Mekong region as well as with universities in Europe. Seven stakeholder events were held to connect DEEM activities to the society at large, linking research and innovation processes to private sector development, NGO activities and government policy.