THE midterm review of the Postgraduate Micro-Credentials for Food Security and Climate Change (PMC-FSCC) project started on Wednesday.
The PMC-FSCC project is aimed at generating inputs to develop modular, flexible, and stackable micro-credential programs.
Funded by the European Commission's Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education program, the review was set for April 23 to 24, 2025, at the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) headquarters in Los Baños, Laguna.
SEARCA will host the Midterm Review under Work Package 1: Project Management and Coordination led by the Thailand-based Kasetsart University (KU) as the project's coordinating institution.
According to SEARCA, the PMC-FSCC project, which runs from 2023 to 2026, is now in its 18th month and has reached the pilot testing phase of the developed micro-credentials, with full implementation targeted for November 2025.
SEARCA said that the midterm review will provide a platform for project partners to assess implementation progress across all work packages.
Discussions will cover milestones achieved, deliverables completed, challenges encountered, risks addressed, and best practices identified to strengthen outcomes in the remaining project duration, it added.
Participants will include representatives from partner-institutions across Southeast Asia and Europe.
From Indonesia, participants will come from Institut Pertanian Bogor, Universitas Gadjah Mada, and Universitas Brawijaya; Malaysia will be represented by Universiti Putra Malaysia, and Universiti Malaysia Sabah; and Thailand by KU and Maejo University.
From the Philippines, the participating institutions include the University of the Philippines Los Baños, Central Luzon State University, Visayas State University, and SEARCA.
European partners will also join the review, with the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences of Vienna sending a representative while the University of Göttingen in Germany participating virtually.