17.3.2010

Workshop 1 ; Cooperation openings between NGO’s and the higher education sector

Why?

What?

How?

Why?

•Important link

•Complimentary expertise (research/skills/contacts)

•Mutual interest/need

•Impact (beneficiaries)

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What?• Funding, responsibility• Better quality education,

practical approach• Analysis of southern need• Explore new opportunities

(private sector involvement)

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How?• How to find the partners? – Personal contacts – the possibilities– Country links/connections– Embassy recommendations

• Consulting the beneficiaries in order to avoid one-dimensional approach

Dialogue on all levels

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How?

Challenges:•Financing•Objectives•Size

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Recommendations?

•Cooperation between ministries in Finland (+wider)

•Flexible, integrated programmes?

•Long-term commitments

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Finally…

•Need for platforms for dialogue, networking

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