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Capacity Building and Development Projects

Through collaborative capacity building and development projects, we work with international partners to co-create solutions, exchange expertise, and expand opportunities in higher education, research, and innovation. Our approach is grounded in mutual respect, sustainability, and long-term impact.

What We Offer

Queen’s brings over 175 years of academic excellence to a wide range of development-focused collaborations. We work with universities to:

  • Enhance educational delivery through curriculum co-design, quality assurance, and academic leadership development
  • Strengthen institutional research capacity via training, joint programmes, and infrastructure support
  • Develop future-ready graduates through transnational education, mobility schemes, and employability initiatives
  • Build strategic leadership through governance consultancy, academic development programmes and sustainability impact development

We welcome a variety of partnership models—from long-term institutional alliances to targeted project collaborations.

MBRU Building
Featured Partnership:Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine & Health Science

Queen’s is proud to partner with MBRU in the UAE on an ambitious educational and research development initiative. Through this collaboration, we have supported:

  • Co-design of undergraduate and postgraduate medical curricula
  • Faculty development and mentoring
  • Research collaboration in health sciences
  • Academic quality assurance and benchmarking

This model exemplifies how Queen’s works alongside global partners to deliver locally relevant and internationally recognised outcomes.

Let’s Build Together

We are committed to working with partners who share our vision of education and research as drivers of sustainable, inclusive progress. Contact our International Partnerships Team to explore how we can co-create impactful, context-sensitive capacity building projects tailored to your needs.