International Training Programmes (ITP) in Belgium are short to medium-term, intensive, interactive, and practical training organized at a university or university college in Belgium/Flanders.
The training targets participants from 31 scholarship countries with relevant professional experience in the ITP's subject and who will be able to transfer the obtained knowledge and skills to a wider audience in their home countries.
We provide 12 scholarships per ITP program. If any applications are open, you can find them here.
Application Criteria for International Training Programmes (ITP) in Belgium
You can only apply for an International Training Programmes (ITP) in Belgium scholarship if you meet the following requirements:
- Nationality and country of residence: A candidate should be both a national and a resident of one of the 31 eligible countries (not necessarily the same country) at the time of the application.
- Relevant professional experience and a support letter: Priority is given to candidates who are employed in academic institutions, research institutes, governments, the social economy, or NGOs, or to those who aim to have a career in one of these sectors. The training candidate should have relevant professional experience and a support letter confirming (re)integration in a professional context where the acquired knowledge and skills will be immediately applicable.
- Fungibility with other VLIR-UOS funding: Candidates who are working at a university where we already fund IUC, TEAM, or SI projects, can receive an ITP-ICP scholarship if they clearly motivate the reason for their application and if they clarify why the participation at the ICP or ITP program cannot be funded as part of the IUC, TEAM or SI program or project funds that already exist.
- Other VLIR-UOS scholarship applications and previously awarded scholarships: A potential candidate can only submit one scholarship application with us per year - irrespective of the scholarship type - and can, therefore, only be selected for one VLIR-UOS scholarship every year. Candidates who already received one of our scholarships to participate in another ITP, will not be eligible. Candidates who already received one of our scholarships to participate in an ICP (or vice versa) can only be selected if the previously attended course is thematically linked to the ITP.
Application Procedure
- Check the eligibility criteria for an ITP scholarship. For more information on which criteria you should meet in order to apply for an ITP scholarship, check out the previous section on 'Who can receive an ITP scholarship?'.
- Apply for a training program of your choice. To apply for an ITP scholarship, you first need to apply for one of the available training programs. Follow the guidelines for application on the program´s website.
- Mention as part of your training application that you wish to apply for a scholarship.
- Applications that candidates submit directly to our organization, will not be taken into consideration.
- You can only apply for one training program per year. The dates of application are determined by the program. The training programs are:
- Sustainable Development and Global Justice (University of Antwerp)
- Modern breeding techniques for maize (Ghent University)
- International training on Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Qualitative research methods (University of Antwerp)
- International Module for Spatial Development Planning (KU Leuven)
- Summer School for Strengthening Diagnostic and Stewardship capacity for Teaching Hospitals (University of Antwerp)
- Clinical Nutrition – from practice to research questions (KU Leuven)
- A Circular Coaching Program Bridging the Sustainability Needs of Entrepreneurs (University of Hasselt)
- Platform development for an E-learning system in Biostatistics/Statistics (University of Hasselt)
- Empowering Vulnerable Children and Young People (UCLL)
- We receive the selection results of the program.
The program organizers will contact the selected candidates as well as the candidates on the waiting list by e-mail.
Eligible Nationalities
Africa
Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe
Asia
Cambodia, Indonesia, Palestinian Territories, Philippines, Vietnam
Latin America
Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Peru, Suriname