Institutional assessments of 8 candidate Institutional University Cooperation partner universities of VLIR-UOS in 6 countries

Project start date: 2020-01-01 - Project end date: 2020-10-31

Conducting Institutional assessments of the following eight candidates' Institutional University Cooperation partner universities: JOOUST and TUK in Kenya, Ardhi University in Tanzania, Quy Nhon University in Vietnam; Gulu University and MUST in Uganda; UNILU in Congo and Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía in PERU.

The assignment contributes to the start of a new Institutional University Cooperation program, being a long-term (12 years) institutional partnership between a university in the South and Flemish universities and university colleges. The assignment comprised: (1) development and fine-tuning of the institutional assessment methodologies, building on the five capabilities model, as per VLIR-UOS requirements, (2) Providing guidance for conducting an institutional self-assessment by each of the universities and analyzin its results, (3) conducting field visits, stakeholder consultation (face to face distance), facilitate joining institutional assessment workshops, present intermediary conclusions, etc., for each university, (4) consolidate the results and draft/ present eight institutional assessment reports.