{"id":7,"date":"2020-01-15T14:01:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T14:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.144.7.201\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2020-12-31T12:47:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T12:47:24","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iuc.amu.edu.et\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"758\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/10.144.7.201\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/09112qwe.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iuc.amu.edu.et\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/09112qwe.jpg 758w, https:\/\/iuc.amu.edu.et\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/09112qwe-300x84.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"> Arba Minch University (AMU) was  selected by Flemish Interuniversity Council-University Development  Cooperation (VLIR-UOS) as a partner university to start an institutional  university cooperation (IUC) programme. This IUC will run from 2017 to  2021 under the coordination of Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.  The objectives of such an IUC is institutional capacity building,  enabling the university to fulfill its role in the society in terms of  education, research as well as strengthening the university-industry  linkages and technology transfer. The AMU-IUC &nbsp;will contribute  sustainably to human capacity building, which is currently strongly  needed given the vast expansion of AMU in terms of number of students,  research priorities and number of study programmes. The AMU-IUC  programme will also develop joint research projects and partnerships  with the IUC experienced universities in southern hemisphere. The  multidisciplinary research programmes of AMU-IUC have center of courtesy  on 6 thematic research priority areas. In the following page different  research projects related to this multidisciplinary research topics are  presented. All research projects will create PhD opportunities, based on  the research that will be undertaken. The AMU-IUC team acknowledges  VLIR-UOS and DGC (directorate General for Belgian Development  cooperation) for the financial, and technical support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Flemish Interuniversity Council-University Development Cooperation (VLIR-UOS) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Institutional University Cooperation (IUC) Programme Launching Event March 28-29\/2017<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Forty springs, forty nations, finding common ground for sustainable development in the South Ethiopian rift valley<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arba Minch University (AMU) was selected by Flemish Interuniversity Council-University Development Cooperation (VLIR-UOS) as a partner university to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuc.amu.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuc.amu.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuc.amu.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuc.amu.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuc.amu.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iuc.amu.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuc.amu.edu.et\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}