• higher education institutions to set up inter-institutional cooperation partnerships between universities from different countries within the ACP regions;
• individual students, researchers and university staff to spend a study / research / teaching period in the context of one of the above mentioned cooperation partnerships;
  
  

This programme builds on the African Union’s Mwalimu Nyerere programme for Africa, granting additional funding, and setting up a similar scheme for the Caribbean and Pacific regions. It is funded through the European Development Fund (EDF).

Objectives

The intra-ACP academic mobility scheme is a cooperation and mobility programme in the field of higher education to:

• provide access to higher education for students including those from disadvantaged groups;
• contribute to the improvement of the quality of higher education through the promotion of internationalisation, and harmonisation of programmes and curricula within participating institutions;
• enhance the international cooperation capacity of HEIs in ACP countries;
• enable students, academics and staff to benefit linguistically, culturally and professionally from the experience gained in the context of mobility to another country;
• enhance, in the medium-term, the political, cultural, educational and economical links between the participating countries.