All BOVA member universities foresee internationalization of their doctoral study programs in the university� development plans. BOVA University strategy foresees joint doctoral activities as one of the priority areas and BOVA network has plans to arrange 4 BOVA or NOVA-BOVA specialized international doctoral courses and 1 course in common subjects every year.

Teacher teams from BOVA member universities are welcome to apply for organization of BOVA doctoral courses in years 2008 (autumn term) and 2009.

Deadline for application is October 31, 2007

A BOVA doctoral course should fulfill the following basic criteria:

- last for a minimum of five days (preferably have a distance learning part);

- have a partner teachers from at least two BOVA member universities (host university including); teachers from NOVA UN and other European higher education institutions are very welcome;

- visiting students from at least two member universities;

- minimum number of doctoral students in specialized course should be fixed to 10 with possible exception for veterinary medicine where a number of participants may be lower if accepted by BOVA CC. Minimum number of participants for common courses should be 15. Common courses should be open for teachers from member universities as well.

According to agreement in the BOVA network, funding policy of joint international BOVA doctoral courses is following:

- application to all possible donors, including NordForsk when relevant. Applicants will receive a great support from BOVA secretariat, coordinators, home international (development) departments suggesting list of potential donors, contributing application writing;

- in case of failure � internal funds might be expected from home universities to run the course at the basic cost;

- ach member university decides on the amount on its own and pays for a teacher for preparation of materials and teaching in the course.

- Socrates mobility grants should be used for teacher mobility in all cases.

Submitted applications will be evaluated by BOVA CC and final list of courses will be approved by the end of the year.

To submit your application, please fill in the following forms: BOVA course Application form and BOVA course budget form.

You may find it useful to consult local BOVA coordinators Kylli Korgesaar, Gatis Kasparinskis, Kristina Kavaliauskaite, Minvydas Liegus when planning your courses.

Send filled papers to BOVA secretariat: [email protected]