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EU funding – development cooperation
Case: UGent - Faculty Bioscience Engineering
Dr.Nancy Terryn UGent – Dept. Research coordination – Development Cooperation
Ann Van Hauwaert UGent – Faculty of Bioscience Engineering - International Relations
Officer
EUROPAID – thematic programs
• Democracy and human rights • Nuclear safety cooperation • Environment and sustainable management of natural
resources incl. energy • Non state actors and local authorities in development • Food security • Migration and asylum • Investing in people • Restructuring of sugar production • EU food facility • Instrument for stability
EUROPAID – geographical instruments Funding Instrument Geographical zone countries
covered Average annual funding
Total funding available for 2007-2013
European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI)
Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Russia, Syria, Tunisia and Ukraine
17 €1.6 billion € 11,181 billion
European Development Fund (EDF)
African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and the overseas territories of EU Member States
79 €3.7 billion € 22.7 billion
Development Co-operation Instrument (DCI)
Latin America, Asia and Central Asia, and the Gulf region and South Africa.
47 € 1.4 billion € 10,057 billion
African Carribean and Pacific Group of States
• created by the Georgetown Agreement in 1975
• Partnership Agreement between the ACP and the European Union, officially called the "ACP-EC Partnership Agreement" or the "Cotonou Agreement“
• Nowadays beyond cooperation between ACP members and EU, covering a variety of fields spanning trade, economics, politics and culture, in diverse international fora such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO). www.acp.int
ACP programmes
• Financed by
– European commission
– EDF
– bilateral support
• Different programs:
– http://www.acp.int/
• EDULINK program: http://www.acp-edulink.eu/
EDULINK program Goal: to support cooperative projects between Higher
Education Institutions (HEIs) in the ACP Group of States, the EU Member States and other eligible countries
Themes
• Capacity Development
• Environment
• Agriculture
• Teacher Training
• Demography
• Gender and Migration
• Health
• ICT
• Regional Integration
• Science & Research
EDULINK II – global objectives
• To foster capacity building and regional integration in the field of higher education through institutional networking;
• to support higher education of quality, that is efficient and relevant to the needs of the labour market and consistent with the ACP regions’ and member countries’ socioeconomic development priorities.
EDULINK II
• Specific objectives:
to strengthen the capacity of ACP HEIs at two levels: Management/administration and Academic
• Scope of the programme: EDULINK II will select project proposals focused exclusively on the following areas:
– Energy access and efficiency
– Agriculture and food security
EDULINK II – eligibility
• 1 ACP member takes the lead
• Min. 3 partners of which min. 2 different ACP countries
• Number of ACP members must exceed number of EU (or non-ACP) members
EDULINK II - ADECEA
• “Establishing and Piloting Postgraduate Programmes for Supporting Agricultural Development in Post conflict Countries of Central and Eastern Africa”
• Participants: – Makerere University and RUFORUM together with known
partners edit the project (a.o. Agrinatura members)
– Agrinatura contacted its member countries • Agrinatura: the European Alliance on Agricultural Knowledge for
development – www.agrinatura.eu
– We’ve accepted the proposal
EDULINK II - ADECEA • Coordinator: Makerere University • ACP members where action is located:
– DR Congo – Université Catholique de Bukavu – Burundi – Université du Burundi – Madagascar – Université d’Atananarivo
• EU members: – UGent – Agreenium (French life science consortium: to promote the role
of agronomic and veterinary research to meet the challenges of food security and sustainable development)
– Supagro
• Other members: – RUFORUM- a consortium of 32 universities in Eastern, Central
and Southern Africa - www.ruforum.org
EDULINK II - ADECEA • Project activities:
– 1 new master program in the 3 universities, each guided by a EU partner • UGent – Université du Burundi
– Budget – only 10% to EU partner
• Main outcome for EU partners: – Stronger partnership of existing networks
(Burundi – Bukavu)
– Acquaintance of new networks (RUFORUM)
– Links to other programs (eg. Intra ACP mobility programs, RUFORUM programs, PAEPARD: Platform for African – European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development, ..)
International Master Programs • UGent:
– Ma of Aquaculture – Ma of Environmental Sanitation – Ma of Nutrition and Rural Development
• Interuniversity in Flanders: – Ma of Food Technology – Ma of Physical Land Resources – Advanced Ma of Technology for Integrated Water Management
• International (Erasmus Mundus): – Ma of Rural Development – Ma in Environmental Technology and Engineering
• International (with Lasalle Beauvais): – Plant breeding
Student population AY 2011-2012
648
444
38
396
Bachelor Master Advanced Master
Foreign
Belgian
Foreign students 2012-2013
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering – Ghent University 2013
Europe 9%
Africa 45%
Asia 38%
South America 7%
North America 1%
International short programmes
Workshop "Cocoa and Chocolate Processing: From cocoa pods to high quality chocolate products"
11-26 June 2014 www.cacaolab.be/workshop
Summer School for incoming students of the FBE Master programmes
03 -17 September 2014
http://www.ugent.be/bw/en/international/programmes/summerschool.htm
Humanitarian Food Science and Technology
07-20 September 2014
International Training Programme "Dairy Nutrition
03 October - 12 December 2014
www.dairynutrition.ugent.be
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering – Ghent University 2013
FBE – Agricultural Research for development
Link: http://www.ugent.be/bw/en/faculty/cooperation/overview.htm
WELCOME to visit UGent - Faculty of Bioscience Engineering
Website: www.ugent.be/bw/en
More information:
- Hilde.Vandecasteele@ugent.be
- Ann.VanHauwaert@ugent.be
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