NEWS 

VLIR-UOS is partner of the conference Enhancing Europe-Africa university partnership and its contribution to development cooperation on September 28 2010 in Brussels. The conference is part of the European Union Erasmus Mundus project ‘Access to Success’. Programme

Agreement between Belgian minister and VLIR-UOS on university cooperation for development

On April 22 2010 the Belgian minister for Development Cooperation Charles Michel and representatives of the Dutch and French speaking university umbrella organisations VLIR-UOS and CIUF-CUD signed an agreement on the reform of university cooperation for development. The most important changes are six-year programmes and geographic concentration. (read more)

VLIR-UOS compensates CO2 emissions of air travel through spin-off of university cooperation for development project in Ethiopia

VLIR-UOS compensates the CO2 emissions of air travel of the staff and the members of the board. In order to assure a close link between climate change mitigation and development cooperation we have chosen CO2-gift and specifically the spin-off project of former VLIR-UOS Ph D scholar Bert Reubens regarding sustainable reforestation in Ethiopia. The Research Platform for Climate Change and Development Cooperation (KLIMOS) provided advice on this topic.

Former ICP Ph D scholar of VLIR-UOS receives the Prize of the Belgian Development Cooperation 2010

The subject of the Prize 2010 is Biodiversity and environment for a better life. In the category of young researchers coming from a developing country former ICP Ph D scholar Mohamed Omar Said from Kenya is the winner.  (more information on the Prize)

Closing event of 10 year partner programmes as part of the Institutional University Cooperation programme (IUC)

with ESPOL, Ecuador: for more information and pictures 

with SLU-BSU, the Philippines: for more information and pictures

ICP Get Together Day 2009 

On the 18th of December VLIR-UOS celebrated Christmas, together with the scholars following an ICP-master course in Flanders and the collaborators from the universities.