Enhancement of Member Institutions’ academic and research capacity has been one of the AUN/SEED-Net’s missions since the first official launch of full scale activities in 2003. During the first phase (2003-2008), the capacity of AUN/SEED-Net’s Member Institutions had been enhanced mainly through the Graduate Degrees Programs with supplementary supporting programs such as Short-term Visit Programs within ASEAN and to Japan.

According to the main purpose to facilitate the research collaboration amongst Member Institutions as well as between Member Institutions and Japanese Supporting Universities, all visiting programs in the first phase focused mainly on the Host Institutions. However, non-hosting Member Institutions were also encouraged to be involved in Collaborative Research Program and were able to conduct a short visit to Host Institutions to discuss research collaboration.

In the 2nd phase of the AUN/SEED-Net Project, support for non-hosting Member Institutions especially in CLMV countries is expanded. Apart from the involvement in Graduate Degrees Programs and Collaborative Research Program as the Sending Institutions, the 6 Member Institutions in CLMV countries will also be able to invite faculty staff of Hosting Institutions and Japanese Supporting Universities to visit their institutions for the purpose of strengthening / developing their courses and/or graduate programs, under the newly launched Faculty Staff Dispatch Program (to CLMV).

The proposal, either in hard or soft copy (PDF or JPEG format), should be submitted with a covering letter signed by Dean of the respective inviting institution, to the AUN/SEED-Net’s office with the deadline as given below, but not later than October 31 each year.

Dispatch from Host Institution: 2 months prior to expected departure date
Dispatch from Japanese Supporting University: 3 months prior to expected departure date

For details of support, application procedures, and application form download, please see Implementation Guideline and Application Form.