Project

Strategic Institutional Partnership University of the Western Cape (UWC) 2020-2022

Acronym
SIP UWC
Code
13v20120-17
Duration
01 January 2020 → 31 August 2022
Funding
Federal funding: VLIR-UOS
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Sociolinguistics
    • Theory and methodology of philosophy not elsewhere classified
  • Social sciences
    • Educational counselling and school guidance
Keywords
SIP University of the Western Cape South Africa global south Cape Town 20th Century Contemporary African languages English Dutch Comparative Language and text analysis Africa Belgium Capacity building Cross-sectoral valorisation Diversity North-South exchange Social inequalities in education Linguistics Interculturalism
 
Project description

This strategic institutional partnership brings together the research capacity and expertise at the University of the Western Cape and Ghent University and builds on historic collaborations with the Global South to explore and test interdisciplinary responses to challenges in and around the Global South. This partnership leverages the complementary research forces in the two academic communities to provide sustainable and impactful scientific and real-world results.