Cooperation agreementsThe Inter-university Collaboration Agreement
The Inter-university Collaboration Agreement (ICA) is an administrative document that formally defines the intention of a foreign HEI and UPPA to enter into collaboration. The collaboration may be either :
- pedagogical: student or teacher exchanges, creation of double degree programmes
- and/or scientific: common research project, co-tutoring PhD students
Procedure for validating an ICA project
ICA contacts
Emilie DESCONET: Spain
Marina HILD: South America, Central America
Céline LESCAUT: North America, Europe (excluding Spain), Oceania, Africa (excluding North Africa)
Marielle PEYRET: Asia, North Africa
Upstream analysis of a collaboration agreement project
A teacher has a project for an ICA with a foreign university:
- Presentation of the project to the relevant contact in the International Office
- Project feasibility study (Vice-President – Head of Department – ICA Contacts)
Drafting the application agreement with the partner HEI
- The contact in the International Office proposes the frame agreement (FA) + the template for the application agreement (AA) to the project initiator
- The project initiator prepares a document with the partner university.
Validation of the agreement
- Validation by the International Office
- The International Office sends the ICA to the Legal Affairs (DAJ) for approval (if the FA template of the partner university is used)
- The teacher in charge sends the ICA to the faculty council for approval
- Once the agreement has been validated by the faculty council, the International Office presents the agreement to the CFVU and CA
- Signatures
The frame agreement is written in French but English and Spanish versions are also available.
