A TEAM is a four-year departmental level cooperation project focusing on specific development themes. This kind of project aims at strengthening the research and/or educational capacity in a specific thematic domain and usually focuses on one department in one (sometimes more than one) partner institution(s) in the South. Teams in both the North as well as in the South collaborate in a unique partnership addressing region-related challenges and offer local solutions in the concerned region/country, which are provided by assuring the right conditions for the uptake of new knowledge, applications or services.
A TEAM project very often builds upon earlier exploration or contacts through our organisation (South Initiatives (SI), a scholar who returns to his or her home institution .....) or other cooperations and deepens the academic/scientific collaboration.