11.6.2011

Brief presentation of funding instruments

Africa at the Universities in Turku / Åbo, 23.10.2012

Annika Sundbäck, Global Higher Education Team

CIMO – Centre for International Mobility

Outline

1. North-South-South Programme (exchanges and intensive courses)

2. HEI ICI Higher Education Institutional Capacity Building Programme (projects)

3. EU programmes for cooperation with Africa

4. ADEA Association for Development of Education in Africa

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North-South-South

•The North-South-South Programme (2010-2012) started in 2004

•Total budget €6 MIL 2010-2012 / 4 MIL website? Mobility grants?

•Priorities, activities

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North-South-South

•Currently 45 networks supported

•N

etworks supported within health (most), teacher and inclusive education, renewable energy and environment, forestry, urban planning, ICT, vetmed, journalism, media and film production, tourism, entrepreneurship, water management.

•Most popular partner countries: South-Africa, Tanzania, Namibia, Kenya, Botswana, Ethiopia, Vietnam – but NSS networks also in Mali, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Belarus

•The application round of the next NSS programme phase (2013-2015) to open in the beginning of 2013, if budget > €5 MIL approval of Parliament Ministry Quality Group CIMO Programme Steering Committee.

North-South-South –programme: Current priority countries and regions

•ODA (Official Development Assistance) list of OECD

•Long‐term partner countries:

– Vietnam, Nepal, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia•O

ther partner countries:– Egypt, Namibia, South Africa and Peru

•Finland’s primary cooperation regions

– Megon River Region: Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam– the Western Balkans: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia

•Eastern Europe: Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus; Southern Caucasia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia; and Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tadžikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

– Central America: Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,•P

anama– The Andean Community: Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia

•Southern Africa: Angola, Botswana, South Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Seychelles, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zimbabwe

– The Horn of Africa: Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, Chad, Central African Republic, Djibouti– Western Africa: Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Burkina

•Faso, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal,

•Gambia

HEI ICI, Higher Education Institutional Capacity Building Instrument

•Aim is capacity building of HEIs in the South, Least Developed Countries according to ODA:

•http://www.oecd.org/investment/aidstatistics/48858205.pdf

•Budget €9,7 MIL 2010-2012

•1-3 years projects, €100-500.000/project

•Project aims; improved quality and relevance of HE, enhanced leadership and governance, information management, HE and society

•Only HEI partners eligible for funding, but associate partners may involve Ministries (Education, Health, Agriculture), research institutes, employers, labour market, NGOs.

•Staff costs, travel costs, equipment/procurements, administrative costs, 10% contingency (flexibility)

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HEI ICI, Higher Education Institution Institutional Capacity Building Instrument

•Application round now open until November 23rd 2012. The whole budget of €9.7 MIL will be allocated under this Call.

•New colleague joining the global team/HEI ICI as of 24.10; Annica Moore (previously UniPID)

•Currently 15 projects supported: 1 in Palestine, 3 in Asia, 11 in Africa (1 Egypt, rest sub-Saharan)

•13 University-coordinated, health and health informatics, teacher education and literacy training, forestry, environment, university management, use of educational technology

http://www.cimo.fi/instancedata/prime_product_julkaisu/cimo/embeds/cimowwwstructure/22983_HEI_ICI_projects_2011-2012.pdf

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EU programmes for cooperation with Africa

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Tempus Information Day Helsinki 4.12.2012

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Association for Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) • ADEA aims at enhancing policy dialogue among African Ministries of

Education, producing information, research and best practice.• Network of African Ministries of Education, educational regional

networks, NGOs, UNESCO, Unicef, World Bank etc • Created in 1988, Finland provides support since 1996, secretariat

at the African Development Bank in Tunis • Several working groups under ADEA, Finland supports the WGs of

1. Higher Education2. Early Childhood Education3. Educational Management and Policy Support4. Teacher education

http://www.adeanet.org/adeaPortal/

•  EFA Seminar in Jyväskylä 8-9.11.2012 / ADEA Higher Education WG as well as African Union Youth Ambassadors

• https://www.jyu.fi/edu/en/international-seminar-on-the-education-for-all

More information

•North-South-South programme

•www.northsouthsouth.fi

•HEI ICI programme

•http://www.cimo.fi/programmes/hei_ici

•EU programmes

http://www.cimo.fi/ohjelmat/tempus

THANK YOUAnnika.sundb

ack-lindroos@cimo.fi

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