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Higher Education Excellence in Development
Co-operation
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Higher Education Excellence in Development
Co-operation

• Programme idea
• Recognition of previous relevant activities of
  the HEIs in development co-operation
• Reinforcement of the engagement of the HEIs and
  encouragement of innovative concepts in
  development co-operation
• Implementation of competence centres to
  contribute actively to the achievement of the
  MDGs

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Higher Education Excellence in Development
Co-operation

• Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Education is the preconditon for development and
higher education institutions are the elementary
schools of globalization. Heidemarie
WieczorekZeul, 09.06.2009 in Berlin
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Higher Education Excellence in Development
Co-operation

• Programme goals
• Strengthening of the German HEIs and the partner
  HEIs in developing countries
• Implementation of think tanks which act as
  linkage between development organizations, HEIs
  and science
• Encouragement to intensify activities in
  development co-operation, mobilization of
  additional resources through HEI management
• Bundling Profiling Scientific Lighthouses

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Higher Education Excellence in Development
Co-operation

• Target Group
• HEIs that generated a concept which extends and
  cross-links existing activities in development
  co-operation
• 5 large-scale projects / co-operation projects of
  German HEIs, their departments or faculties and
  their partner HEIs in developing countries

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Higher Education Excellence in Development
Co-operation

• Funding
• Up to 1 Mil. p.a.
• 5 HEIs for 5 years
• Total volume up to 25 Mil.
• Financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic
  Co-operation and Development (BMZ)

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Higher Education Excellence in Development
Co-operation
Partner organizations - Quality management and
consulting -
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Higher Education Excellence in Development
Co-operation
Two-phase selection process
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Higher Education Excellence in Development
Co-operation

• Announcement of the 5 successful HEI projects
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  Berlin, 9 June 2009

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Higher Education Excellence in Development
Co-operation

• Project goals
• Contribution to the achievement of the 7th MDG
  through co-operation between developed- and
  developing countries in the project excellence
  through dialogue
• Capacity building in the sphere of sustainable
  water management in developing countries and in
  Germany
• Putting the topic sustainable watermanagement
  on the political agenda of developing- and
  developed countries

• Technische Universität
• Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig
• Excellence through Dialogue - Sustainable Water
  Management in Developing Countries

• Partner-HEIs
• Water Resources University, Hanoi, Vietnam
• Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
• Mutah University, Jordan

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Higher Education Excellence in Development
Co-operation

• Universität Hohenheim
• Food Security Center (FSC)

• Project goals
• Contribute to the achievement of the 1st MDG by
  combating hunger and ensuring adequate nutrition
• Gender issues will feature prominently in
  ensuring adequate nutrition (MDG 3) and
  sustainable agriculture (MDG 7)

• Partner-HEIs
• Sokoine University of Agriculture and Technology,
  Tanzania
• Universidad de Costa Rica
• Katsetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

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Higher Education Excellence in Development
Co-operation

• Project goals
• Combating hunger and poverty through research and
  education in the sphere full and productive
  employment and decent work for everybody (MDG 1,
  part 2)
• Three research clusters focus on
• Possibilities to increase the value creation in
  rural areas
• Adequate instruments to enforce decent work
  conditions
• Strategies to enable political participation

Universität Kassel International
Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD)

• Partner-HEIs
• Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India
• Universidade Estaduale de Campinas, Brazil
• University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
• Egerton University, Kenya
• University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan
• Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Mexico

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Higher Education Excellence in Development
Co-operation

• Project goals
• Contribution to the achievement of MDG 7
  Ecological sustainability
• Networking existing competences between Germany
  and the focus areas (Southeast Asia, Middle East,
  North Africa, Latin America, South Africa)
• Capacity building at the partner universities in
  the area of education, research and knowledge
  transfer

Fachhochschule Köln Centre for Natural
Resources and Development (CNRD)

• Partner-HEIs
• Jordan University, Jordan
• Vietnam Academy for Water Ressources, Hanoi,
  Vietnam
• Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique
• Universida Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico

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Higher Education Excellence in Development
Co-operation

• Project goals
• Achievement of the MDGs through strengthening
  bundling of teaching, research as well as the
  development of practical and political solutions
  to health problems in developing countries
• Enable partner universities to train experts, who
  can contribute to the solution of country
  specific problems

Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität München LMU
Center for International Health (CIH)

• Partner-HEIs
• Mbeya Referral Hospital (Med Research Unit)
  Mbeya, Tanzania
• University of Danang, Vietnam
• Jimma University, Ethiopia
• Universidad Católica de Norte, Coquimbo, Chile

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Higher Education Excellence in Development
Co-operation
Supportive measures
Guest professorships adressing MDG-relevant
topics staffed with high-ranking guest scientists
from developing countries
Administration and coordinationinclusive online
appearance
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Higher Education Excellence in Development
Co-operation
The excellence centres provide a framework for a
co-operation on equal terms in research and
teaching between scientists and students from
Germany and their partners from developing
countries to address the most important
challenges of the future. We are convinced that
this creates a sustainable consolidation of the
structures in the HEIs of the developing
countries and heightens the importance of
development co-operation in German HEIs. Dr.
Christian Bode, 9.6.2009 in Berlin
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Higher Education Excellence in Development
Co-operation

• Contact Section 435 Higher
  Education Excellence in Development Co-operation
• Stefan Bienefeld, phone [phone]
• e-mail bienefeld_at_daad.de
• Thierry Kühn, phone [phone]e-mail
  kuehn_at_daad.de
• Dorothee Schwab, phone 49 (0)
  228/882-8600e-mail schwab_at_daad.de