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Fit4Digital: Fostering digital transformation in Higher Education Systems of Latin America & the Caribbean

Fit4Digital is supporting structural reforms in the higher education (HE) sector of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) regions, primarily focusing on Costa Rica (representing Latin America) and Dominican Republic (representing Caribbean), with the aim of introducing and facilitating the broad proliferation of micro-credentials as a tool for improving relevance, quality and flexibility of HE in the era of Digital Transition. As a second goal, Fit4Digital aims to facilitate the emergence of Trustworthy and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulation for HE in LAC using the EU AI Act as an inspiration. Following the European Council’s Recommendation on micro-credentials for lifelong learning and employability, Fit4Digital will facilitate the update of the National Qualifications Frameworks in the LAC countries, build national consensus over principles underlaying micro-credentials and facilitate their mutual recognition, initiate national dialogues on Ethical AI in and for education and stimulate educational activities in the field of AI literacy. To validate the suggested reforms, provide feedback to the policy level, and facilitate the proliferation of micro-credentials, Fit4Digital will implement the pilot programme covering the capacity building on micro-credentials and the development of AI literacy educational units leading to micro-credentials. Finally, the project dissemination and sustainability activities will spread the obtained results to all relevant education and training providers in the beneficiary countries and wider in the region. The LAC partners involved are Ministries of Education and a representative group of 4 Universities. The pool of Associated partners represents comprehensively the LAC region and includes Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. On the European side, the project consortium includes 3 Higher Education Institutions with complementary competences, the Italian ENIC-NARIC Centre and a Quality Assurance Expert Company.

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Partners: UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID (Coordinator), INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE COSTA RICA, CENFOTEC IT LEARNING CENTER, MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (COSTA RICA), UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE SANTO DOMINGO, UNIVERSIDAD APEC, MINISTERIO DE EDUCACION SUPERIOR CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGIA (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC), UNIVERSITAT DES SAARLANDES, UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI EUROPEA, ASSOCIAZIONE CIMEA, GIRAF PM e.K..
Associated Partners: INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO Y DE ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES DE MONTERREY, UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA, UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE, ASOCIACIÓN URUGUAYA ORT
Duration: 2026-2029.
Project id: 101235031