Development co-operation

Call for Proposals of DIES Partnerships

The programme DIES Partnerships with universities in developing countries is announced on a yearly basis.

• University Principals, members of the central university management
• Heads of central university facilities
• Deans and faculty managers
• Heads of higher education management programmes

• Introducing innovations into the institutional management of universities or faculties (target agreements, decentralisation, professorial appointments management, networking management, etc.)
• Introducing or advancing the strategic development planning or quality management systems (at institutional or faculty level)
• Introducing systematic cooperation with external interest groups (stakeholders) into the development of the university or faculties (graduate and destination surveys, contact workshops, alumni networks, fundraising, etc.)
• Establishing and enhancing central university facilities (international offices, careers services centres, technology transfer centres, university-wide graduate schools, etc.)
• Continuing development of responsibilities performed by the higher education management or administration (human resources, infrastructure, budget, organisation, etc.)
• Establishing and advancing tertiary continuing and postgraduate training programmes on topics relating to higher education management and administration.
• Support from university consortia on introducing innovations into the field of higher education management.

• Applications on related topics that are primarily addressed at degree programme or departmental level. Examples include: Quality assurance in degree programmes; Curriculum development of degree programmes (even if with an interdisciplinary approach) or Establishment of graduate schools at departmental or faculty level.
• Subject-related partnerships with universities in developing countries

If you are in any doubt about how to classify your project, please send us an informal outline of the planned project as early as possible so that the DAAD can advise you in good time.
 

The DAAD offers support by providing project-specific funding to finance all project-related costs. The maximum support  available for a partnership between a German and a foreign university amounts to 50,000 euros per year. In cases of multilateral cooperation (North-South-South, usually in different partner countries), the amount of support can be increased by up to 20,000 euros per year. The financial support can be granted for a maximum of four years per application. 

The next announcement for DIES Partnerships will be on 2nd April 2012, the deadline for applications is expected to be June, 30th 2012 with earliest funding beginning in 2013.

Financially supported by:

• Africa Sub-Sahara
• Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania
• Central and Eastern Europe
• Latin America
• North America
• Northern Africa and the Middle East
• Western Europe