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Intra-ACP Academic Mobility Scheme
REG/FED/21817

Agreement No.REG/FED/21817-Intra-ACP Academic Mobility Scheme- was signed on 8 February 2011 for an amount of €40.0 million. The period of execution is 144 months

The amount of 30.0 million is split in two parts, 30.0 million for the African Region Component (Nyerere Programme) and 10.0 million for the Caribbean and Pacific Regions component. Further 5.0 million will be added to the African Component as a contribution from South African EC budget line to enable South African institutions to participate fully in the Programme.

Implementation Mode

Direct management (the EC is the Contracting authority).

The Programme is managed by the EC Agency, Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).

Objective

The Programme’s purpose is strengthen cooperation between Higher Education Institutions in the ACP region in view of increasing access to quality education that will encourage and enable ACP students to undertake postgraduate studies, and to promote student retention in the region along with mobility of academics and staff while increasing competitiveness and attractiveness of the institutions themselves. More specifically, the project will aim:

  • To promote cooperation between sending and hosting institutions;
  • To enhance the international cooperation capacity of universities in the ACP.

Expected Results:

  • ACP postgraduates completing Masters courses and multinationals PhDs:
  • ACP Academic and administrative staff exposed and participating in the higher education inter-institutional exchanges;
  • The spreading of the various experiences and best practice of participative universities.

The Programme is ongoing

The ACP Secretariat monitors this project through chairing the steering committee composed of representatives of the European Commission, African Union Commission, South African embassy (Brussels) Caribbean and Pacific embassies in Brussels Detailed information could be found on: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/intraacp mobility/.

Beneficiary countries

Botswana, Uganda, Ghana, South Africa, Madagascar, Cameroon, Nigeria, Trinidad & Tobago, Fiji, Senegal, Tanzania, Namibia, Burkina Faso.

For more information, contact: Department of Political Affairs and Human Development