We are pleased to inform you that the Secretariat launched a call for proposals of DUO-France 2004.

The Duo-France programme, funded by the French Ministries of Foreign Affairs, and of Youth, Education and Research, provides support for higher education co-operation projects conducted by two academic institutions, one French and the other located in one of the ASEM Asian countries wishing to initiate or develop partnership relations.Projects can be initiated by the French academic institution only.

The broad aim is to back, as a priority, the creation of joint or paired Master's level (300 credits http://www.cpu.fr/Dossier/LMD/) diplomas/degrees and foster partnerships between institutions associated together in a project by promoting the mobility of "duos" of students and teaching staff.

Duo-France seeks to originate new projects or confer a new dimension on existing inter-higher education institution projects.It attaches prime importance to supporting projects intended to fit in with other present or future multilateral (Asia Link, EU-ASEAN University Network, Erasmus Mundus) or bilateral programmes.

The deadline for applications is by April 23, 2004, and the results will be posted on our news board in early July.

For more information, please visit DUO-France site located on the right of our homepage menu.

If you have more inquiries, you are welcome to contact us at admin2@asemduo.org.

Look forward to your participation!