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Higher Education Excellence in Development Cooperation - ex)/(ceed

Daad Ex Ceed Dina4 Quer 1 The programme Higher Education Excellence in Development Cooperation aims at supporting German Higher Education Institutions (HEI) together with their partners in developing countries (DCs). Support is given to those institutions that contribute to the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other goals of development cooperation policy in an innovative manner. The aim is to strengthen the HEIs in the domains of education, research and consultancy. The major concerns of the programme are:

  • Bringing together working units in the HEIs with a direct linkage to the MDGs
  • expanding education and research on issues of relevance to development cooperation policy in German and partner country HEIs
  • increasing the visibility of activities related to the MDGs in the general public in Germany and DCs
  • constructing Competence Centres for development cooperation by developing excellent research that can serve as a scientific "lighthouse”, is internationally attractive and competitive
  • strengthening north-south as well as south-south cooperation in higher education and research
  • expanding policy analysis and consultancy on issues in development cooperation in DCs and Germany

By these activities, researchers and institutes are encouraged to continue and expand their commitment in development cooperation. The competence centres are meant to become think tanks for development co-operation that develop approaches for the solution of global challenges and transfer them to policy makers, donors and practitioners.

The support measures include a guest professorship, coordination costs for the competence centre as well as additional instruments for foreigners and Germans. These can be combined in a flexible manner by the HEIs according to their demands and needs. The centre of measures circles around financial support for mobility of persons for the purpose of education, research and consulting. The overall goal of the funding is to substantially contribute to strengthening the structures in HEIs in DCs.

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  • General powerpoint-presentation about the programme (updated september 2010) (.pdf)

The competences centres were selected in a two-step process by an international peer-review group between October 2008 and June 2009. Five centres receive funding since July 1st 2009 for a period of five years and with a volume of up to 1 million Euro p.a. resulting in an overall funding of 25 million Euros over a five-year period. The programme is financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of the German government.


The five funded Higher Education Institutions and their partners are:

                                                                                                      
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HEI

Main Partner HEI

Project Title

Braunschweig TU      

Water Resources University, Hanoi Vietnam
Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
Mutha University, Jordan    

Excellence Center for Development Cooperation - Sustainable Water Management


Hohenheim U                     

Sokoine University of Agriculture and Technology, Tanzania
Universidad de Costa Rica
Katsetart University, Bangkok, Thailand

Food Security Center

Kassel U                     

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
Universidade Estaduale de Campinas, Brazil
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Egerton University Kenya
University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan
Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Mexico

International Center for Development and Decent Work

Köln FH

Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaíso, Chile
Ain Shams University, Kairo, Egypt
University Gadjah Mada, Jogyakarta, Indonesia
University of Jordan, Jordan
Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique
Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Vietnam Academy for Water Resources, Hanoi, Vietnam

Center for Natural Resources and Development

München LMU

Mbeya Referral Hospital (Med Search Unit) Mbeya, Tanzania
University of Danang, Vietnam
Jimma University, Ethiopia
Universidad Catolica de Norte, Coquimbo, Chile

Center for International Health


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Date: 2012-02-08