What is this partnership opportunity?
The aims of this funding opportunity are to:

			establish mutually beneficial partnerships between HEIs in the UK and East Asia
			develop co-operation between HEIs in the UK and East Asia
			increase awareness of the UK higher education systems in East Asia
			encourage the development of joint / dual award programmes and collaborative programme delivery at undergraduate and postgraduate levels
			build the basis for future sustainable partnerships between collaborating institutions
			strengthen the skills of higher education staff in both countries in the techniques of developing collaboratively delivered programmes including joint and dual awards.

What funding opportunities are currently available?
We are pleased to invite proposals from UK higher education institutions (HEIs) to work in partnership with HEIs in South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia to develop and deliver collaborative programmes.

We will be funding up to 12 projects between the UK and these four countries in East Asia. Recent market research has indicated that Indonesia currently has a very limited number of collaborative delivery programmes with UK partners and therefore at least two projects will be funded in Indonesia, with the other projects being funded based on merit and not country quota allocation. All projects must demonstrate mutual and / or complementary benefits to both sides of the partnership.

Funding is available as follows:

			For full awards: Total funding will be over two years. Year one is to a maximum of GBP 20,000 with the assumption that this will extend for into year two up to a maximum of GBP 17,000 on the basis of satisfactory outputs and proposals for building on the first year experience.
			For short courses: One year of funding to a maximum of GBP 15,000.

Bidding opened on 14 September 2009 and the deadline for e-copies is 1730 GMT on 10 February 2010. The deadline for hard copies with supporting letters in 25 February 2010.

For full details, see the guidelines:
Guidelines (132KB)

Please use the following form to submit your application:
Application form (247KB)

What types of partnerships have been funded previously?
Fourteen partnerships were funded in 2007 / 2008. Programmes being developed include Vietnam’s first media management programme, a partnership bewteen University of Stirling and University of Danang, and a certificate in Fundamentals of Arts & Play Therapies in Malaysia, a partnership between Roehamption University and University Science Malaysia.

The full lists are available here.

On-line application briefings
Three web-based briefings took place in September 2009 to provide information about the new round of PMI2 Connect higher education funding for Collaborative Programme Delivery.

The presentation slides, audio recording and a full list of questions and answers from the briefings are now available.

If you have any questions, please contact the PMI2 Connect team.