Policy supporting research delivers research output on specific themes of interest to Belgian development cooperation on demand of the Belgian federal government. The goal is to improve the relevance and performance of Belgian development cooperation policy with regard to the international framework of sustainable and inclusive development.
Policy Supporting Research (PSR) 2019-2021
As from 1 January 2019 and upon request from the Belgian federal government, the currently ongoing ACROPOLIS policy supporting research programme of VLIR-UOS and ARES will be adjusted into the Policy Supporting Research (PSR) programme for a period of three years (2019-2021). The new approach to PSR will remain an integral part of the five-year programme (2017-2021) for academic cooperation for development of the umbrella organizations VLIR-UOS and ARES.
The three-year period is regarded as an experiment in which new ways of working can be tried out broadening the expertise, opening up competition, varying the nature of questions, and varying funding modalities.
ACROPOLIS 2014-2018
With ACROPOLIS, ARES funds the programme that succeeds and replaces the GRAP (Groupes de Recherche en Appui aux Politiques de Coopération au développement) which has been providing successful policy-support research from 2009 until 2013, now a with shared perspective and on a coordinated Belgian level.
3 ACROPOLIS
3 ACROPOLIS are currently ongoing. VLIR-UOS and ARES jointly provide an average funding of € 330 000 per group per year.
Conference : "Tackling climate, fragility & finance challenges for the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development"
On April 20, 2017, the three ACROPOLIS research groups held a joint conference on the challenges of climate, fragility and sustainable development financing.
This conference offered an opportunity for the three research groups funded by the DGD to present the results of their research and to analyze how these results can contribute to better achievement of sustainable development objectives.
Find out below the presentations that were broadcast during the conference as well as the posters that were made by the various research groups.
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