Call for scholarships 2025-2026
The 2025-2026 ASEM-DUO scholarships call is closed!
You can consult, for information, the documents relating to this call in the section "Details of the call" below.
A specific cooperation process between Asia and Europe in the field of education – and more specifically higher education – has been set up in the context of the Asia-Europe Meeting. During the Asia-Europe Meeting of Ministers of Education held in Kuala Lumpur in 2013, the FWB announced it would participate in the ASEM-DUO Mobility Scholarship Programme as of 2014.
DUO/Wallonia-Brussels has been established at the Wallonia-Brussels Federation in order to promote “paired exchanges” between professors or researchers from Wallonia-Brussels higher education institutions and institutions from the Asia-Pacific region. Mobility must be carried out over a period of 18 days to 2 months (60 days) and by "pair", i.e. a professor/researcher from an institution from the FWB goes to an Asia-Pacific partner institution and vice versa. Candidates do not necessarily have to work in the same field of study to be eligible.
The overall objectives of the scholarship programme are the following:
- to promote an increase in balanced exchanges of professors and researchers in higher education between the two regions;
- to help set up regular exchange programmes between higher education establishments in the two regions;
- strengthen cooperation and dialogue between the two regions.
The list of partner countries is: Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
FAQ
There are 5 universities, 19 university colleges and 16 schools of arts and 81 adult higher education institutions in the FWB. The full list of higher education institutions eligible is available on Study in Belgium website.
If you already have a partner, you must then check that he or she actually works for an eligible higher education institution of the FWB and meets the conditions of eligibility.
If you do not have a partner yet, you can inquire with the international relations office of your institution to find out whether your institution already has a partnership with a higher education institution in the FWB. Alternatively, you can check on Study in Belgium website the list of higher education institutions dealing with areas related to your project and contact, for instance, the head of international relations office, the head of the research department, or the heads of faculty/department of these institutions.
ARES is cannot help you find a partner to work with on your project.
You have two options regarding signatures: either the document is signed by hand and then scanned, or you save the completed form in PDF format and you and your authorities affix your authenticated signatures to it.
Yes, you can split your stay in two trips in order to meet, after your second trip, the minimum length of stay of 18 days in total. However, in this case, we draw your attention on the fact that most of your scholarship will be spent in transportation fees.
As a reminder, the stay of each of the partners in the duo must last for a minimum of 18 days and a maximum of 60 days.
The definitive dates of your stay must be sent to ARES by September 30th of the reference year of the call at the latest.
Yes, you can change your travel dates up to one month after the deadline for signing the agreement between you, your partner and ARES, i.e. until September 30th of the reference year of the call.
This is a co-signed letter (or two separate signed letters) from the authorities of both institutions, or their representatives, stating the intention of both parties to sign an inter-institutional agreement within the next 2 years. The relevant authorities are either the rectorate or directorate, or the vice-rectorate responsible for academic affairs.
MORE INFORMATION: International Relations Department - asem-duo@ares-ac.be.
Details of the call
ASEM-DUO Scholarships 2025-2026
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