Incentive fund & Global Minds Calls

The International Office (DIOS) offers funding for initiatives that contribute to the goals of the internationalisation policy plan and/or the Global Minds programme via three different calls:

1. DIOS Incentive fund & Global Minds call for projects: 15/05 and 15/11

2. DIOS Mobility programme: annual deadlines: 1/02, 15/05, and 1/10

3. Global Minds predoctoral visits: annual deadlines: 1/02, 15/05, and 1/10

Via this call, DIOS funds projects that contribute to the goals of the internationalisation policy plan and/or the Global Minds programme. A budget is made available through internal UHasselt means to finance projects that contribute to the goals of the internationalisation policy plan. An additional budget is made available through Global Minds, a VLIR-UOS programme which aims to strengthen the institutional capacity in order to reach University Development Cooperation (UDC) with impact.

Deadline for submitting project proposals: 15/05/2025

CALL & APPLICATION FORM

BUDGET TEMPLATE

Annex 1: UHasselt internationalisation policy plan (pdf, 182 KB)

Annex 2: Global Minds programme (pdf, 936 KB)

The DIOS programme for incoming & outgoing mobility aims to finance mobilities that contribute to the goals of the internationalisation policy plan and/or the Global Minds programme.

Application deadlines are three times a year and funding is provided on a first-come, first-serve basis. You can apply for 1 mobility/academic year. The mobility has to take place within 6 months after the application deadline.

Next deadline for submitting project proposals: 1/02/2025

CALL

Application link

ANNEX 1: Budget file Mobility programme

The preparation of a joint-PhD proposal benefits from the actual presence of the PhD candidate. The Global Minds programme offers you the opportunity for a short stay (max 2 months) of a PhD candidate at Hasselt University that will perform research in a development relevant topic.

During this stay, the student can perform some preparatory research, perform literature study for the proposal, write the proposal, get to know the promotor and colleagues of the lab, … The short stay has to take place within 6 months after the application deadline.

First deadline for submitting project proposals: 1/02/2025.

CALL

Application link

What is an incoming travel grant?

Students from the 29 scholarship countries can apply for a travel grant. This grant provides limited financial support for an internship or a research stay in Belgium, at Hasselt University.

A travel grant provides limited financial support for a study stay or research at Hasselt University. Preferably, the stay is recognised as a study component and therefore awarded with study credits (e.g. as a work placement /internship or a thesis).

The study stay:

• takes place in collaboration with a promoter of Hasselt University.
  • takes place within the university or one of its partners such as a hospital, local government, NGO, local enterprise with social purpose, association,...
  • if the internship doesn’t take place at the university, it needs to be clarified how collaboration with the university is enhanced and exchange with local students will be realised.
• lasts at least 1 month (there is funding for one month, if the internship takes longer, then co-funding is needed).
• is supervised by a supervisor at the UHasselt and one in the home country.
• allows for the realisation of study goals, personal development and the acquisition of global citizenship skills but equally important is that the UHasselt and the home organisation in the partner country clearly benefits from the student's work.
• The application has to be submitted at least 4 months before your planned trip.

Who can receive a travel grant?

Any student (bachelor or master) who is enrolled in an university or university college in one of the 29 partner countries studying with a diploma contract, can apply for a incoming travel grant.

What is the application procedure?

Application link

• Promotor completes the Google Form.
• Elements within the application:
  • Added value for the student
  • Added value for UHasselt and the home institution
  • Exchange and collaboration with UHasselt students
  • CV student
  • Name local promoter
  • Planning/programme provisional of the stay
  • Planned outcomes
  • Synergy with other projects/collaboration with the home institution of the student
  • Co-funding available or not

What is the selection procedure?

First come, first serve.

What does the scholar receive?

[1] The plane ticket will be booked and paid by UHasselt.