Nuffic’s Orange Knowledge Programme is a 5 year global development programme, aimed to strengthening professionals and organisations through education and training. It contributes to the goals of the Netherlands’ development cooperation policy, in which education plays a significant role. The programme offers funding in 53 countries for individual scholarships, tailor-made trainings and institutional partnerships between Dutch and foreign education institutions in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and higher education. It focuses on the priority themes of the Dutch government (Water, Food and nutrition security, Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights, and Security and Rule of Law) and aims throughout the programme for inclusion, employability and environmental sustainability. Nuffic is programme manager, in close collaboration with the programme’s funder, the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Running from mid-2017 to mid-2022, it will offer at least 51,000 thousand people the chance to change their future through education. With its institutional collaboration projects the Orange Knowledge Programme aims to support knowledge institutions in need of sustainable strengthening of higher and vocational education capacity within local priority themes relevant to development cooperation. Support for vocational education and connection to the labour market are important principles. Institutional projects consist of various activities that contribute to institutional development of organisations in developing countries on three levels: individual, organisational and institutional.
Call for for Institutional Collaboration Project grant applications on Food & Nutrition Security – Orange Knowledge Programme
This call specifically addresses the capacity of training of teachers at SMK’s in agriculture. Explicit reference is made to the Country Plan of Implementation (CPI) for Indonesia (section on Food & Nutrition Security), which clarifies the context and expected long-term impact to which the institutional collaboration project under consideration has to contribute.
Who can submit proposals?
Grants for OKP Institutional Collaboration Projects will be awarded to collaboration projects between knowledge institutions focusing on sustainable strengthening of higher and vocational education capacity within local priority themes relevant to development cooperation. A grant application (proposal) may be submitted by any one of the partners, potentially on behalf of a consortium. The grant applicant must be a Dutch institution for secondary and higher vocational or academic education; or a national or local knowledge institution or organisation (knowledge institution, ministries, national commissions or non-governmental organisation) that contributes to capacity development in the area of higher and vocational education within the local priorities as set out in the CPI. The grant applicant must have sufficient organisational and financial capacity to lead an institutional collaboration project. Please check the specific criteria in the call document (see enclosed).
Available funding
The maximum available funding for this call excluding co-funding is EUR 700,000
Closing date for submission
20 May 2019, 11:00 am CEST
Questions?
Nuffic will answer questions about this call until the date stated in the time schedule on the front page. If you have a question about this call you can send an e-mail in English to GDtenders@nuffic.nl. Mention in your e-mail the call number. Questions and Nuffic’s answers will be published on the questions & answers page.