An IUC partner programme is guided by a strong overall programme strategy and logic supported by a coherent set of synergetic/complementary projects involving interdisciplinary approaches. An IUC envisions both institutional and developmental change. This change realised through academic theme-based projects (research and educational strengthening of involved departments) and mandatory transversal (institutional strengthening) projects. These “transversal projects” are expected to focus on institution-wide organisational capacity building in a number of prioritised institutional policy domains (research policy, curricula/accreditation, university management, HRD, international relations, finance department, gender policy); and/or in domains of internal service delivery (ICT, library, language, basic sciences labs, ..); and/or in domains of external service delivery (outreach services, dissemination, extension/ Research and Technology Transfer (RTT) - offices, communication, ...)