Call for proposals - EACEA/11/12: INTRA-ACP academic mobility scheme: Africa (Mwalimu Nyerere) and the Caribbean and Pacific

The objective of the programme is to promote sustainable development and poverty alleviation by increasing the availability of trained and qualified high-level professional manpower in African, Caribbean and Pacific  (ACP) countries.

The programme aims to strengthen cooperation between higher education institutions (HEIs) in the ACP in view of increasing access to quality education that will encourage and enable students to undertake postgraduate studies, and to promote student retention in the region along with mobility of staff (academic and administrative) while increasing competitiveness and attractiveness of the institutions themselves.

More specifically the programme aims to:
- provide access to higher education for students including those from disadvantaged groups
- facilitate cooperation on recognition of studies and qualifications
- contribute to the improvement of the quality of higher education through the promotion of internationalisation, and harmonisation of programmes and curricula within participating institutions
- enhance the international cooperation capacity of HEIs in ACP countries
- promote cooperation between sending and hosting institutions
- enable students, academics and staff to benefit linguistically, culturally and professionally from the experience gained in the context of mobility to another country
- enhance, in the medium-term, the political, cultural, educational and economical links between the participating countries

Eligible applicants are ACP HEIs that provide courses at the graduate and/or doctoral level of higher education, recognised by the competent authorities in their own country. Only ACP national HEIs accredited by relevant national authorities in Africa, in the Caribbean and in the Pacific are eligible. Branches of HEIs from outside Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific are not eligible.

The partnership will be constituted between three and 12 HEIs.

The project will involve the identification of existing high quality master and doctoral programmes, the organisation and implementation of student and staff mobility at these levels of higher education, the provision of education/training and other services to foreign students and teaching/training and research assignments and other services to staff from the country(ies) covered by the project. Activities must take place in one of the eligible countries covered by the call for proposals and participating in the partnership.

The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is €12 million, which should allow around 400 mobility flows. Lot 1: Africa, €10 million; Lot 2: Pacific and Caribbean, €2 million.

The deadline for applications is 10 May 2012.

Further information is available on the EACEA website

Reference: 2012/C 37/10

(Added 2012-02-10)