Alfa - Regional cooperation programme
ALFA is a programme of co-operation between higher education institutions (HEI's) of the European Union and Latin America.
Participant countries are the 27 Member States of the European Union and the following 18 countries of Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Along 10 annual selection calls of ALFA II, a total of 225 projects were selected to receive a grant in order to develop the institutional cooperation and the scientific and technical training within Higher Education Institutions of the European Union and Latin America. With the closure of the 10th Call, in October 2005, the annual calls for applications to the phase II of the Programme ended.
Important notice:
ALFA III - 1st Call for Proposals - EuropeAid 126-821/C/ACT/RAL- CLOSED
The launching of the ALFA III Programme is now a reality. Networks of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and other relevant cooperation institutions are invited to prepare applications for grant funding under the new programme on higher education cooperation for Latin America. Projects will include "Joint Partnerships" of European and Latin American institutions and "Structural Measures" that aim to reform education systems in Latin America. A third component of the Programme will fund "Accompanying Measures", ie. horizontal activities to promote the Programme's visibility and results of approved projects (c.f. ALFA III- 1st Call for Proposals).
List of Results of the 1st Call - approved projects
See ALFA III in two pages 
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