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Newsletter
22 June 2022 | |
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Portrait of a research institution | |
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In the upcoming newsletters, we will be portraying a research institution from the Global South. | |
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Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire (CSRS)
Established in Côte
d'Ivoire in 1951 and placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Research
of Côte d'Ivoire and the SERI via the Swiss TPH as Leading House, the CSRS is
a reputed research center with cutting-edge interventions in the fields of biodiversity,
food security, animal and human health, urban environment, and governance. | | | |
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Digitalisation in North-South Research Partnerships
Digitalisation influences North-South research
partnerships in multiple ways, impacting communication, collaboration and relationships between
Southern and Northern partners. We are now presenting outcomes of a workshop on opportunities and challenges of digitalisation
when aiming for fair and efficient North-South research partnerships on the KFPE website. | |
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Leading House Asia: Call for Innovation Partnership Grants
Innovation
Partnership Grants support the establishment of a cooperation between
Switzerland-based researchers with non-academic innovation agents in
East and Southeast Asia.
Submission deadline: 31 July 2022
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Leading
House Middle East and North Africa: Call for Research Partnership Grants
This call
for projects aims at developing new joint project proposals or connecting
already existing and independently funded projects in Switzerland and in the
MENA partner countries into long-lasting cooperation. Submission deadline: 12 September 2022.
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Leading House Latin America: Call for Consolidation
Grants The Consolidation
Grant promotes sustainable, longer-term research cooperation between Swiss
and Latin American scholars with the aim of producing accountable scientific
outcomes in domains that have been identified as priority by both Latin
American and Swiss institutions. Grants between 25’000-50’000 CHF will be
awarded. Submission deadline: 31 July 2022.
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GRC: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Collaborative Funding Call
The
Global Research Council has launched a pilot call aiming to accelerate the
achievement of the SDGs, through the implementation of results from ongoing or
recently finalised research and innovation projects. Applicants must form
project consortia with eligible partner organizations from at least three
different countries. Deadline for the submission of concept notes: 5 August
2022.
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Belmont Forum: Integrated Approaches to Human
Migration/Mobility in an Era of Rapid Global Change This call presents an opportunity to fund research focused on integrated
systems approaches to accurately characterise migration and mobility and its
intersection with Global Change. Please note: only limited eligibility for Swiss researchers. Call for full proposals closes on 29 July 2022.
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SFIAR
Award 2022 – Call for Applications
The Swiss
Forum for International Agricultural Research (SFIAR) offers an annual Award for graduates and scientists of
a Swiss institution who work in agricultural research for development. The best PhD project wins 5’000 CHF and the best Master thesis project 1’000
CHF. Deadline for applications:
14 July 2022.
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Further news on funding and scholarships can be found on the KFPE website. | |
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Climate
change adaptation in mountains: How to close the gap between policies and local
realities?
30
June 2022, Zoom
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Gaps between adaptation policies and local responses limit effective
pathways toward more resilient mountain communities. Participants will jointly reflect on how to make adaptation efforts work better. Further information and
registration. In addition, Mountain Research and Development has launched a new call for papers on “Restoring mountain systems for social-ecological resilience”.
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Swiss
Researching Africa Days 2022
28-29
October 2022, Bern
The Swiss
Researching Africa Days promote the exchange among the community of researchers
working on Africa in Switzerland. The call for papers and posters is now open.
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Equitable energy transition in light of global
crises
22 July, online
ETH Nadel and the Natural Resource Governance Institute NRGI invite to a public
debate to discuss potential implications of global crises on an equitable
energy transition in producing countries in the global South. What perspectives
do state-owned enterprises, civil society and academia share or dispute when it
comes to the effects of today’s global crises on resource-dependent developing
countries? More information and registration
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Sustainability
Science Forum 2022
3 November
2022, Bern
Keynote by Albert
van Jaarsveld (director of IIASA and member of the ISC Commission on Global
Science Missions for Sustainability). Save the date and stay
tuned.
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Swisspeace
Dealing with the Past & Conflict
Transformation 29 August - 02 September, virtual course.
Learn about the design and implementation
of effective and transformative processes to deal with the past. Apply before 30 June 2022. Communicating Peace and Conflict 13-16
September 2022, virtual course. Join us to discover trends, challenges, and
practices of communicating peacebuilding and related topics. Apply before 30 June 2022.
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Wake up, smell the coffee and play the game
Coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world. But what is the story behind all these cups of coffee consumed day in, day out? How is
coffee produced, processed, and distributed? Who are the players involved? And
what does all of this mean for sustainable development? The new Lao Coffee Game by the Centre for
Development and Environment CDE and the National University of Laos takes you
to a coffee-producing region in southern Laos and lets you be the players.
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Governing Migration for Development from the Global South
Providing perspectives through
case studies from the global South(s), this latest special issue from the International
Development Policy journal focuses on the challenges and opportunities of governing
migration on the subnational, national, regional and international levels. The issue will be presented in a
panel discussion at the 2022 ACUNS Annual
Conference in Geneva, on 24 June at 10:30am.
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A new
culture of failure in North-South research partnerships
Brilliant
failure – at first this sounds more like a contradiction than a productive way
of dealing with difficulties. Yet, a synthesis project from the r4d programme
turned it into an innovative concept with regard to North-South research
partnerships. The result is a film that is as entertaining as it is
inspiring.
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Study Tour to Eco-Industrial Parks
The Global Eco Industrial Park Programme of the United
Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Swiss State
Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) is geared to scale up resource efficiency and cleaner production to the
level of Eco-Industrial Parks (EIPs). The University of Applied Sciences and
Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) hosted a study tour for participants from
Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, Peru, South Africa and Vietnam to exemplify and
demonstrate EIP approaches and practices. Read the blog series on the study tour.
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Did you like anything
in particular or did you miss anything in this newsletter? Please let me
know, I am happy to receive your feedback.
Anja Bretzler and Fabian Käser | |
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