Centre for International Cooperation (CIS)
CIS is VU University Amsterdam's focal point for international development cooperation with partners in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Mission statement
CIS aims at making VU University Amsterdam's knowledge, experience and expertise accessible to institutions and individuals in developing countries and countries in transition, and by doing so, to contribute to national development processes in those countries. Through its development cooperation activities, CIS helps to strengthen the university's relations with education and research in partner countries, and thus enhances the profile of VU University Amsterdam as an internationally oriented and committed university.
The Centre for International Cooperation's philosophy is to work with people - and not merely for institutions.
Areas of expertise
Besides drawing on the wide range of knowledge available in VU University Amsterdam's faculties and institutes, CIS employs staff of its own with specialized expertise in the following fields:
- development of education and training
- management and organisational of educational institutions
- the use of ICT in teaching and research, management and organisation
- management and conservation of natural resources in rural areas.
While implementing cooperation projects and programmes with partner institutions, CIS also undertakes other assignments. These include exploratory studies, advisory work and consultancies for a wide variety of national and international organisations.
