NORHED II
A new program period was published by NORAD on 10 March 2020 with application deadline on 26 June.
The results were announced on 18 December. UiO was awarded 8 projects as the coordinating institution and one project where UiO is a partner institution. See the full list of projects.
More about NORHED II
The thematic sub-programme areas for this call are:
- Education and Teacher Training
- Health
- Climate Change and Natural Resources
- Political and Economic Governance
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Energy
In NORHED II the project coordinator and potential grant recipient shall be the Norwegian institution, who will have the overall responsibility of the application. NORHED projects must consisit of minimum one higher education institution in a developing country and minimum one Norwegian higher education institution. Projects with more than one partner institution in a developing country (North-South-South partnerships) are encouraged.
All NORHED II projects at the University of Oslo will be consolidated into one joint grant agreement between UiO and NORAD.
The scope of the projects is either 3 years (ca 10 mill NOK) or 6 years (ca 15-20 mill NOK).
Each project must have at least one partner in Norway and at least one partner in a Least Develop Country (LDC) or Lower Middle Income Country (LMIC) according to the OECD/DAC list, but there is no set maximum number. Priority is given to Norway’s priority countries: Colombia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Palestine, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.
Norway also gives priority to other Least Developed Countries (LDC) in Sub-Saharan Africa. Regional South-South collaboration is strongly encouraged.Collaboration with higher education institutions in other developing countries than the prioritised countries is welcome, when justified based on a South-South capacity building objective.