According to the development policy trend in Europe and the ADC programmatic guidelines the new "Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education and Research for Development - appear" for the period 2010-2014 supports partnerships between higher education institutions in Austria and ADC key regions. The objectives are to improve the quality in teaching and research, to make the management and the administration at the involved institutions more effective and to strengthen the scientific dialogue nationally and internationally.

Under the superordinate goal of poverty reduction appear also contributes to a discourse in society about quality and orientation of development in general. The institutional partnerships are based on a cooperative collaboration and mutual respect for different cultural contexts and approaches. It is also based on issues that are of high relevance particularly for the partners in the "South". The exploitation of the results also follows a participatory approach – for example through mutual exchange of teaching staff or joint publications and presentations.

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