IUC with University of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)

A total of €6.54 million was provided by VLIR-UOS for the institutional development of University of Zimbabwe (UZ) over the ten years from 1998 to 2007, in two phases: Phase I (1998 – 2002) and Phase II (2003 – 2007). Of this total, approximately two thirds was provided as capital investments in computer hardware at UZ, in association during Phase II with the planned development of specific e-learning applications on UZ campus. The remainder of funding was used to finance UZ staff postgraduate training at the Flemish university counterpart institutions, for specific research and academic teaching initiatives in the disciplines of Computer Science, Agricultural Meteorology and Aquatic Ecology (Fish Biology in Phase I, but subsequently broadened in Phase II to include many important aspects of ecology of aquatic resources), and for the travel and subsistence costs required for carrying out academic exchange visits over the ten-year IUC Partnership.