Collaboration

IV/1 Collaboration

The UNU/IIST Programme (see Reference Handbook section I/2/7), which has been approved and adopted by the UNU/IIST Board and the UNU Council, mandates that UNU/IIST shall:

• help universities in developing countries attain the highest quality education (including course curricula) in computing science and software engineering;

• help research laboratories in developing countries to internationalize their research; and

• help the information technology (software) industry in developing countries attain the highest quality when developing their own software.

UNU/IIST achieves this mandate by collaborating with partners (private and public institutions, including companies, universities and research institutes) in developing countries on various kinds of activities:

1. advanced training courses;

2. Macau-based research projects with invited fellows from developing countries;

3. Macau-based advanced development projects with invited fellows from developing countries;

4. Macau-based curriculum development projects with invited fellows from higher education institutions in developing countries;

5. joint events, including workshops, exhibitions, conferences, etc.

6. dissemination of publications and public domain software, including software developed in UNU/IIST's advanced development projects; and

7. involvement of fellows from developing countries in consultancy studies.

You can find specific details, where appropriate, relating to collaboration on each of these activities below, together with more general information on collaboration (who we collaborate with; ownership of results of collaboration; why you might wish to undertake some joint activity with us; costs of UNU/IIST Fellowships; and how to initiate contact with us).

In conclusion, we do stress that each request for cooperation is dealt with on a case by case basis. Lack of partner funding is not in itself a reason for not entering into a cooperative agreement, especially when there is a genuine commitment by the partner to pursue goals and objectives which are in line with UNU/IIST's own.

Collaboration

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