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www.vliruos.be
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Own Initiatives Forum4 May 2009ObjectivesMs.
K. Verbrugghen, VLIR-UOS director
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CONTENTS

• Historic overview
• Objectives
• 2009 edition
• Practical announcements

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1. Historic overview

• Long-time concerns of VLIR-UOS promoters
• Too much focus on administration and finances
• Need for more monitoring and feedback on content
• Need to share among peers
• Request from DGDC
• Own commitment of VLIR-UOS

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1. Historic overview (cont.)

• Editions
• First edition in 2006
• 2009 OI Forum is 4th edition
• As of today this is an annual event
• One year only project presentations (half a
  day)
• Every other year project presentations and
  policy debate (full day)

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2. Objectives

• 1. Exchange of information and experiences among
  promoters
• Reason of existence and surplus value of VLIR
  platform function
• Exchange of
• information
• experiences
• with the aim of
• Synergies and possibilities for cooperation, both
  in terms of content and in terms of
  logistical-practical collaboration / alignment
• Capitalisation of experiences
• Identification of the critical factors for
  success
• Determination of good practices
• Each time taking the specific context of each
  country and the respective field of science into
  account
• valorisation of your efforts
• a sounding board for all parties involved
  project partners, N and S, VLIR-UOS, DGDC, other
  actors active in the same country / field

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2. Objectives (cont.)

• 2. Follow-up of projects with respect to all
  parties involved to check the need to adapt
  promoters, VLIR-UOS, DGDC
• Valorisation of the mandate of the member of the
  selection committee by including these experts in
  the selection, and also in the follow-up.
• 4. Open forum VLIR-UOS provides programme and
  framework for discussion
• you report, share, consult, recommend
• we listen and take note
• 5. Policy advice for the Bureau UOS en DGDC
• Cf. learning organisation

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2. Objectives (cont.) Who and how ?

• Who ?
• Third year of realisation (midterm monitoring)
• How ?
• Story behind the projects
• Who, what, where, when, how and why ?
• Oral explanation
• Easily accessible for the wide public, not
  technical-scientific

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3. 2009 edition

• Morning OI 2006 project presentations
• More focus on development relevance, results
  reporting
• Afternoon policy debate
• Debriefing on and input into ongoing political
  negotiations, based on the principles of the
  Paris declaration
• Four themes
• Added value of small-scale scientific projects
• VLIR-UOS projects as stepping stone to networks
• Country focussed university cooperation for
  development
• North-south linkages, complementarity and
  synergies

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4. Practical announcements

• Registration and conference folder
• Morning session
• Two working groups registration needed
• 11 presentations presentation, followed by
  questions and reactions
• For each WG moderator and rapporteur
• After lunch presentation of conclusions by
  rapporteurs
• Afternoon session
• Plenary session five consecutive presentations,
  followed by debate
• All presentations will be made available on our
  website as of 6 May 2009
• Evaluation form included in the conference folder

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• This is your day !
• We are happy to listen to you !