EMINENT partners organised an online Project Meeting on Friday 21^st January 2021. Colleagues in Haiti and Europe Union reunited after the Christmas vacations via videoconferencing to formulate a feasible workplan to catch-up delays of project implementation.

Along these lines, partners welcomed the good news about the official approval by the EACEA to extend the period for the implementation of the EMINENT project up to April 2022. This will become a great opportunity for the project to compensate the disruption generated by the COVID-19 pandemic and recovered action.

EMINENT consortium will focus the next 4 months to finalise the design of their internal quality assurance systems at faculty level, conduct self-assessment activities as well as articulate policy proposals within the Roadmap document action.

The virtual event was attended from representatives of 5 Higher Education Institutions of Haitis present in the EMINENT Consortium together with the representative of the Ministry of Education (MENFP) ofthe same country. EU universities were also represented in order to ensure smooth coordination among project partners.

EMINENT is a Erasmus+ / Key Action 2: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices: Capacity-building in higher education project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union and coordinated by the University of Alicante, which contributes “Towards the Enhancement and Harmonisation of HEIs Quality Assurance in Haiti in response to national and International Developments”. Particularly, the project has been designed factoring the urgent need to develop Higher Education Quality Assurance Systems in Haiti and in addition extend this impact to the Caribbean region.