Global Minds Project: Building capacity and increasing visibility for sustainable development
The Global Minds Programme (GM), supported by VLIRUOS, aims to increase VUB’s capacity in knowledge, scientific approaches and technologies to sustain, improve and expand its collaboration with partners in the South. By integrating development issues into education and research, Global Minds strives to foster global citizenship and solidarity in society to better respond to global challenges. The Global Minds framework enables various projects and mobilities.
Calls 2025-26
📣📣 New Calls 📣📣
The UDC Team has launched new calls for the following Global Minds projects and scholarships:
- REI - Deadline R1 5 May 2025
- XREI - Deadline R1 5 May 2025
- SGP - Deadline R1 5 May 2025
- SGM - Deadline R1 5 May 2025
You can find the calls here!
Calls 2024-25
SI 2025
Internal deadline (VUB) is 10 February 2025
More info on the VLIRUOS website.
Of course you can also contact the IRMO-UDC team: ICOS@vub.be
Calls 2024-25
📣 New call Universitas 2025 is open now: Call & Application Form
Deadline: 16 December 2024
1. XREI: Staff mobility
The objective of this call is to stimulate staff mobility, be it VUB staff travelling South, or Southern staff travelling to VUB, or to a VUB-organised event in Belgium. The mobility should contribute to capacity-building regarding university development cooperation within VUB (in accordance with the Global Minds objectives). The destination is limited to the 23 countries of the GM partner countries.
2. Student group mobility
The objective of student group mobility projects is to enhance world citizenship through outgoing student mobility and to promote structured cooperation between VUB and institutions/organisations in 23 countries of the GM partner countries. Students wanting to go abroad are required to follow UCOS training before applying to the call.
3. Small great projects
These aim to strengthen the VUB’s academic capacity to participate in university development cooperation. Project proposals should stimulate an (innovative) development dimension in (one or more of) the university’s missions (education, research and outreach). Examples include (but are not limited to) international seminars, alumni gatherings, awareness-raising events on campus and movies on VUB projects, about food, migration, climate crisis, SDGs, entrepreneurship in the Global South, etc.
4. REI travel grant
REI is a travel grant for students at a Flemish university or graduate school for an individual study trip to a country in the Global South. The exchange is part of an approved course, such as an internship or a thesis. This is a chance for students to contribute to sustainable development. More information via this link.
University Development Cooperation Career Award
For nurturing partnerships and being an inspiration to others.
At VUB, we’re very proud of the tradition of close collaboration with universities in developing countries. To celebrate our engaged staff, increase the visibility of university development cooperation, and raise awareness among the VUB community about the opportunities, we introduced the UDC Career Award.
- UDC Career Award winner 2020: Edilbert Van Driessche.
- UDC Career Award winner 2022: Nico Koedam
- UDC Career Award winner 2023: Georges Eisendrath
- UDC Career Award winner 2024: Geert Angenon & Ann Nowé
Universitas
The Universitas scholarship programme aims to strengthen existing cooperation between VUB and partners in the Global South. Consequently, the Universitas scholarships will, as part of the internationalisation policy of VUB, contribute to the realisation of the SDGs.
📣 Previous Call & Application Form