Bolivia is an important partner country of VLIR-UOS. From 2003 to 2023 VLIR-UOS spent more than € 11,2 million in cooperation with Bolivia, including a long-term Institutional University Cooperation (IUC) Programme with Universidad Mayor de San Simon (UMSS) of Cochabamba and an ongoing IUC programme with the Universidad Católica Boliviana (UCB) which started in 2017 and is now in its 2nd phase of cooperation. This IUC, together with a number of TEAM/SI projects form the core of the cooperation with Bolivia.

Bolivia is also one of our 29 scholarship countries.

Ongoing projects

Institutional University Cooperation

IUC 2017 Phase 1 UCB-B

TEAM projects

Prevention of soil compaction by agricultural operations in Chuquisaca, Bolivia Anthropogenic influence on erosion rates in a typical watershed for strategies to reduce Land Degradation in the Bolivian Andes. Working for a healthier aquaculture at Lake Titicaca

JOINT

SEfficiency An international academic Family Medicine Network on interprofessional collaboration Promoting active deep learning in Water Resources using MOOCs

South Initiatives

Co-creating new knowledge through joint learning on life systems for adapting territorial development plans - Wakichina Implementing open-design to obtain affordable and accessible assistive technology for people with disability. Enhancing research and training based on a TLC approach at UPEA Capacity building in taxonomy and phylogenetics for the conservation and restoration of threatened Andean ecosystems Model-based assessment of future Bolivian energy systems

Bolivia and Agenda 2030 - country reference framework

VLIR-UOS revised its country approach towards an ‘Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development’ centred approach. Moreover, VLIR-UOS wants to facilitate connections between different actors and projects present in a given country. With these objectives in mind, the Country Reference Framework (CRF) for Bolivia supports teams of academics when identifying and formulating project proposals, by providing a context analysis focused on Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development and the higher education sector in Bolivia, and by providing an overview of Belgian development actors active in Bolivia, their ongoing projects and partners, in view of exploration of opportunities for synergy and complementarity. Belgian Non-Governmental Actors involved in the geographic Joint Strategic Framework (JSF) Bolivia as well as those involved in the thematic JSF on Higher Education and Science for Sustainable Development have been included.

Overview current partners

Universidad Mayor de San Simon (UMSS)

Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo (UCB)

Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA)

Universidad San Francisco Xavier (USFX)

Centro de Ecología y Pueblos Andinos (CEPA)

Universidad Autónoma Tomás Frías (UATF)

Documents

2023 - Bolivia Facts and Figures

2024 - Bolivia Reference Framework

2024 - Bolivia Country Brochure

2021 - Mid-term evaluation - IUC with Universidad Catolica Boliviana (UCB), Bolivia