The 2nd CIVIS seed funding call is open for applications until 31st May!

The aim of the call is to promote research collaborations between our partner universities, including our associate members from African universities.

As last year, this call is open to all members of CIVIS universities (see call for more details on the conditions of participation) in order to finance two types of activities:

1. New collaborative research activities
2. Application design measures

• Results beginning of November at the latest
• Projects may be carried out between November 1st, 2025 and June 30th, 2026.

You can find all the information you need on the dedicated page, and an info session is scheduled for April 14th, 2025 from 12.00 to 13.00 to present the call's objectives and application's modalities in more details (registration link here).

We count on you for the wide dissemination of the call information, especially on the info session!

The new CIVIS BIPs open to students applications are online.

• Link here to the BIPs
• Please note that there are still some BIPs that are not online because of pending information from teachers
• Application deadline: 4th May 2025

May the Fourth be with our CIVIS students!

We kindly invite you to disseminate the following two surveys produced by GPO and designed to: 

• explore the extent and nature of the 'visa problem' that limits academic mobility between Europe and Africa
• investigate how to address the situation at the institutional, national, and European (EU) level

There are French, English and Portuguese version of the surveys.

1. One survey addresses academics (lecturer/researcher/professor) and students (including PhD candidates) from African countries, who applied for visa in the past to go to a European country for an academic purpose.
2. The other addresses persons from African and European Universities responsible for managing or implementing mobilities of students, academics, or university (Higher Education Institutions) staff from African countries to Europe on a regular basis.

You can also find here a proposal of message to disseminate to the right audience to help increase the response rate.