Building Social Research Capacities in Higher Education Institutions in Lao PDR and Malaysia Erasmus Project

Project Title

Building Social Research Capacities in Higher Education Institutions in Lao PDR and Malaysia

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

BRECIL is a project acronym for Building Social Research Capacities in Higher Education Institutions in Lao PDR and Malaysia. The project has a wider objective which is to develop human capital and facilitate individual learning and institutional mechanisms in Social Science research in higher education institutions in Lao PDR and Malaysia through research training and capacity building, including research governance, leading to sustainable high quality research, conditions for cooperation and potential for policy impact. In order to fulfil the general objective, the project has specific objectives with the first aiming at developing and empowering researchers in Social Sciences via training and peer learning to design, prioritize and undertake research, write up and publish research findings and inform policy. This objectitive is spesically designed to feed the knowledge transfer component and targets to be achieved within two years by September 2019.The second objective is to develop good governance of research by enhancing the capacity of research departments and teams in universities, to fund, manage and sustain themselves by September 2020. By that time, the partner country HEIS will be equipped with a research governance component and develop a better research management mechanism in their respective universities.The final objective is to create a sustainable research capacity building programme in Social Sciences including the utilization of ICT technologies leading to sustainable high quality research, conditions for cooperation and potential for policy impact by September 2020. This will bring the sustainability component throughout the project lifecycle. Therefore, it is clear that the wider, specific as well as the aim of the project are connected and rooted in the national documents on one end and on the other end, the realization of the project and project results will provide defined changes and provide platform for changes in specified fields.

Project Website

http://brecil.my

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 681035 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA & Country: MY

Project Partners

• RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN
• UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA
• SOUPHANOUVONG UNIVERSITY
• SPRACHEN- UND DOLMETSCHER-INSTITUTMUNCHEN EV
• GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET
• NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LAOS