African and Danish universities can in collaboration apply for partnership projects or for seed funding to develop a partnership project. A partnership project consists of partnership activities together with scholarships aimed at students from African university partner(s). Seed funding can be used to develop a partnership project application.
Existing university partnerships with substantial ongoing partnership activities may apply for scholarship funding only.
Universities may submit proposals for more than one partnership project under the same call.
Calls are announced here and on Danida Fellowships Centre's platforms and newsletter
Revisit the online info-meeting about the 2026 call
Partnership projects consist of two components:
Danish and eligible African universities can apply for funding for partnership projects consisting of partnership activities together with scholarships aimed at students from African university partner(s), or for scholarship activities alone, in cases where an existing partnership is sufficiently developed.
