Conducting Institutional assessments of the following 8 candidate IUC partner universities: JOOUST and TUK in Kenya, Ardhi University in Tanzania, Quy Nhon University in Vietnam; Gulu University and MUST in Uganda, UNILU in DR Congo and Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía in PERU.
The assignment contributes to the start of a new Institutional University Cooperation (IUC) programme, being a long-term (12 years) institutional partnership between a university in the South and Flemish universities and university colleges.
The assignment comprised:
Development and fine-tuning of the institutional assessment methodologies, building on the 5 capabilities model, as per VLIR-UOS requirements.
Providing guidance for conducting an institutional self- assessment by each of the universities and analyse its results.
Conducting field visits, stakeholder consultations (face to face and distant), facilitate joint institutional assessment workshops, present intermediary conclusions, etc., for each university.
Consolidate the results and draft / present 8 institutional assessment reports.