CALL FOR PROPOSALS — EACEA/11/12

INTRA-ACP academic mobility scheme

Africa (Mwalimu Nyerere) and the Caribbean and Pacific

2012/C 37/10

1.   Objectives and description

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 countries.

The programme aims to strengthen cooperation between higher education institutions (HEIs) in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific 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:

2.   Eligible applicants and partnership composition

Eligible applicants are higher education institutions (HEIs) in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific that provide courses at the graduate and/or doctoral level of higher education, recognised by the competent authorities in their own country. Only African, Caribbean and Pacific 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 twelve HEIs.

3.   Eligible activities and duration

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.

4.   Award criteria

All applications will undergo assessments by external independent experts according to the three award criteria listed below:

5.   Budget and grant amounts

The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 12 million for the following geographical windows and should allow around 400 mobility flows:

6.   Submission of proposals and deadline

Only grant applications submitted on the correct form, accompanied by its annexes and duly completed will be accepted. The grant application has to be dated and signed in original by the person authorised to enter into legally binding commitments on behalf of the applicant organisation.

All additional information considered necessary by the applicant can be included on separate sheets.

The grant application and its annexes must be sent by registered mail to the following address:

The grant application must be sent also by electronic version to the following mailbox:

EACEA-INTRA-ACP@ec.europa.eu

The duly completed grant application and its annexes must be sent no later than 10 May 2012 (as per postmark).

Only applications submitted by the deadline and in accordance with the requirements specified on the grant application form will be accepted. Applications submitted by fax or e-mail only will not be accepted.

All the necessary documents are available at the following address:

http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/intra_acp_mobility