The accelerated scale of climate change means that that rural populations of Sub-Saharan African countries of Malawi and Zambia are very susceptible to the impact of droughts, cyclones and other weather events.. SEED proposes to build the capacities of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Malawi and Zambia to work with a range of local enterprise, agricultural advisory and local government staff in innovative learning partnerships to create, test and validate microcredential courses that are responsive to the local climatic conditions and the consequent needs for local entrepreneurs and markets to ensure a more sustainable and resilient economy in Malawi and Zambia. This will develop internationally recognised and transferable processes for professional development courses which address the specific needs of the HEIs' graduate network of agricultural extension, business, teachers and local government officers across Malawi and Zambia. It will enhance HEIs’ knowledge and capacities in graduate programme design, quality assurance and governance in microcredentials. The partnership of European and African partners in SEED will exchange knowledge, capacity building and good practice to co-design and test two microcredential programmes on community-based responses to climate change and building sustainable local enterprise in response to changing climatic conditions. These courses will use transformative community development and professional learning based in real-world learning methods to enable deep collaboration between HEI researchers, community and local enterprise partners. SEED will build the capacity of HEIs to train professional education and local government staff in short, highly responsive courses that can be used in their daily work in local communities, education and enterprise to enhance resilience and productivity in a climate-sensitive manner based on local analysis.