Global Minds Open calls

02-02-2023

 

GMF provides opportunities to the whole Ghent University community to collaborate with partners in the Global South in order to address the global challenges of sustainable development. GMF is designed as an ‘innovator’ programme that aims to (1) increase the production and application of innovative solutions to global challenges and (2) sustain, improve and expand equitable partnerships with actors in the Global South.

 

Open calls:

Explore and/or Valorise call 2023

The focus of this Explore and/or Valorise call 2023 is on proposals from Ghent University researchers that want to:

  1. explore a collaboration with one or more partners in the Global South;
  2. valorise the outputs of an already existing collaboration with one or more partners in the Global South;
  3. combine options 1 and 2

Proposals should entail innovative responses to global and local challenges. Furthermore, they should be characterised by equal partnership and sustainable collaboration among the partners.

 

Research/Education Stays in the Global South for doctoral fellows

The focus of this call is on proposals from Ghent University PhD students that want to have a research- or education-oriented stay (between 1-3 months) with partner organisation in the Global South.

The purpose of this call is to offer PhD students an opportunity to engage, exchange and collaborate with researchers and experts in the Global South in order to:

  • strengthen or expand their ongoing research activities on sustainable development-related issues in the Global South, or;
  • integrate a focus on sustainable development challenges in the Global South in their ongoing PhD project.

Proposals should address a specific sustainable development challenge in the Global South. Furthermore, they should strive for an equitable and sustainable collaboration with partners and stakeholders in the Global South.

 

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