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Short Initiatives (SI)
Small-scale projects with a limited budget
Small-scale projects with a limited budget
South Initiatives (SI) are short-term projects with a limited budget, initiated by academics/lecturers at a university, university college or a (national) non-profit research institute in a developing country in collaboration with academics/ lecturers in Flanders. Other civil society actors in the South can be involved as well, but only as a supporting partner and not as an applicant or a formal co-promoter. We distinguish 'seed funding' for new partnerships and 'harvest funding' to enhance the impact of earlier projects.
SI can also be particularly interesting for young academics to get acquainted with higher education cooperation for development.
South Initiative projects potentially aim at:
in order to contribute to the fight against poverty in the concerned region/country and in the end, to generate development change (impact) (mostly after the intervention).
Each year, we launch a call for SI project proposals, which are assessed by an independent commission of experts based on six criteria: scientific quality, relevance, impact, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability.