The overall objectives of the proposal are:

To promote the EU higher education system in the participating Asian countries in particular, the least developed countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, China and Thailand), in order to enhance the attractiveness of European higher education.

To improve education, teaching and research activities in ICT, Engineering, Technology, Business and Management, Education and Teachers training in participating institutions.

To exchange ideas, views and knowledge among the partners from both EU and Asia to enhance communication, collaboration, cultural awareness and understanding of current and future needs of the Higher Educational Institutes. This will also give opportunity to learn best practices from each other.

To raise awareness of opportunities in the sector and develop links that can ultimately lead to mutually beneficial economic co-operation.

To establish a virtual learning center (VLC) with digital library facilities to make the eLINK framework sustainable. For example, new UoB repository can be exploited as digital library.