Project Funding

Short Initiative (SI) projects are short-term, impactful projects designed to explore, build, and deepen academic and scientific collaborations. These projects are ideal for academics new to the VLIRUOS community, as well as experienced promoters looking to explore new partnerships or valorise existing ones. With a focus on addressing urgent sustainable development challenges, SI projects deliver tangible results within two years.

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TEAM projects are medium-term partnerships that dive deep into the heart of global sustainable development and aim at exploring, building, and deepening academic and scientific partnerships between teams of academics. These projects focus on addressing sustainable development challenges while enhancing the research and educational capacities of higher education and science institutions in partner countries. By fostering strong collaborations, TEAM projects generate tangible societal impact, supporting both local and global development goals.

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An International Training Programme (ITP) project is a short- to medium-term project that enables our partners to set up intensive, interactive, and practice-oriented training courses. These courses are targeted to professionals who are interested in global sustainable development or professionals who want to enhance their higher education management skills. In doing so, they create a supportive, inclusive and networked learning environment in which individual scholars, professionals, and academics acquire transversal skills and state-of-the-art knowledge on sustainable development.

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The Institutional University Cooperation (IUC) programme is a cornerstone initiative designed to forge long-term partnerships between universities in our partner countries and Flemish higher education institutions. This 10-year collaboration aims to empower partner universities to fulfil their roles as driver of change for global sustainable development in its country, region, and globally. IUC projects focus on strengthening educational and research capacities via different academic theme based sub-projects, as well as improved institutional performance via transversal institutional strengthening sub-projects.

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International Course Programme (ICP) Connect projects are medium- to long-term projects that aim to more systematically integrate global perspectives and strengthen partnership and network dimensions into existing educational programmes. Through educational networks and scholarships, Flemish higher education institutions aim to systematically integrate global perspectives. In doing so, they create a supportive, inclusive and networked learning environment in which individual scholars, professionals and academics acquire transversal skills and state-of-the-art knowledge on sustainable development.

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