Anyone in Finland?

Anyone in Finland who might want to submit a collaborative project to work with us in the improvement of higher education in Uganda?

http://www.cimo.fi/programmes/hei_ici

Science For Development

Big news for science in Uganda!!! A group from Mbarara University and a team led by the University of Valencia (Spain) which includes participation of the Kampala International University Western Campus are among the awardees of the Saving Lives at Birth. Science for development can also be done in Africa. Yeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!

It's Friday Again

Last night (a few weeks ago now that I finally get to publish this) I was sitting on my couch, tired after playing a bit of basketball with people that are much younger, much stronger, and in much better shape than I am, and I realized that I was hearing loud music; the kind of music you would hear in a disco around here. “Of course”, I thought, “It's Thursday, and we are in a (tiny) university town.

Today is Friday, indeed, and our Nigerians put on their traditional clothes...

 To see the full post, visit the blog entry in the learning-through-diversity section of the Center for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning.

5000 for Uganda Challenge

Sayasi has launched a small big challenge: obtaining 5000 euros from small donations to improve the facilities of the Institute of Biomedical Research. Will you help us getting there? And disseminating the info?

5000 FOR UGANDA CHALLENGE

Sayansi ha lanzado un pequeño gran reto: conseguir 5000 euros a base de pequeñas donaciones para mejorar las instalaciones del Institute of Bomedical Research ¿Nos ayudas a conseguirlo? ¿y a difundirlo?

RETO 5000 POR UGANDA

 

Anyone with Wellcome Trust Funds for this call?

International Engagement Awards

Funding for public engagement with Wellcome Trust research in low- and middle-income countries.

(a very important matter with very little support otherwise – we have a good relationship established with a local radio station and BBC Africa would probably be interested in getting on board if the opportunity comes; this is us http://shs.kiu.ac.ug/index.php/institute-of-biomedical-research/about-the-institute)

What are the Awards

The International Engagement Awards have been relaunched after the success of the previous scheme. The scheme has been refocused to award projects that are linked to Wellcome Trust-funded research.

International Engagement Awards are for projects that support Wellcome Trust-funded researchers in low- and middle-income countries to:

• engage with the public and policy makers
• strengthen capacity to conduct public engagement with biomedical science and health research
• stimulate dialogue about research and its impact on the public in a range of community and public contexts
• promote collaboration on engagement projects between researchers and community or public organisations.

Projects could engage:

• communities and members of the public (particularly those affected by or involved in biomedical and health research)
• science communicators, health and science journalists
• healthcare professionals, educators, field workers, community workers
• policy and decision makers.

The audience for the project, and the engagement activity, must be in a low- or middle-income country.

If you are interested in conducting research into the effectiveness of science communication or engagement, you may be interested in our Ethics and Society schemes.

How do I apply?

To be eligible, you must be either:

• directly funded by the Wellcome Trust (as a researcher, research group or institution); or
• working with a researcher, research group, institution or consortium directly funded by the Wellcome Trust.

We encourage informal discussions about potential project ideas before you submit an application, although we cannot review draft applications.

To apply for a grant of up to £30 000 for up to three years, complete a preliminary application form and submit it to the Trust by the date indicated under the ‘Deadlines’ tab.

We will assess preliminary applications for eligibility, their link to Trust-funded research and the quality of the proposed engagement project. If your preliminary application is successful, we will invite you to make a full application.

Please note that applications that do not have an appropriate link to Trust-funded research will not be accepted. Such links must be agreed with the Trust-funded grantholder in advance of submission.

Final decisions will be made approximately five months after the preliminary application deadline.

Larger grants of more than £30 000 can be applied for by invitation only to support exceptional projects.

Deadlines and Contacts

Upcoming preliminary deadlines for the International Engagement Awards are:

19 August 2013

You can contact us at:
International Engagement Awards
Wellcome Trust
Gibbs Building
215 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE, UK

T +44 (0)20 7611 8806
E internationalengagement@wellcome.ac.uk

First Workshop of the Year

 

Anyone from Norway?

Is there anyone out there working in a Norwegian higher education institution who might want to apply to this call with us?

http://www.norad.no/en/support/norhed;jsessionid=664B34813E92DC45BB2E97B5FCA18CF5

See who we are on our website and in previous posts of this blog.

The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)

Title: Norwegian Programme for Capacity Building in Higher Education and Research for Development (NORHED)

The aim of the programme is to strengthen capacity of higher education institutions in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC) to educate more and better qualified candidates, and to increase quality and quantity of research conducted by the countries’ own researchers.

Based on a needs assessment in the relevant country, NORHED projects may include institutional capacity building elements like joint Norwegian-South research, competence building of staff through Master, PhD and Post Doc fellowships, administrative and small scale infrastructure strengthening, initiatives to increase access to higher education. The projects must also aim to build and launch Master (and if needed Bachelor) programs responsive to needs in the LMIC, that should be possible to sustain at the LMIC institution after the NORHED funding has come to an end. Education programmes must focus on the long-term need for capacity building in the South, and the recruitment from the South to the education programmes must be ensured.

Eligible Applications: Applications to the following NORHED sub-programmes are eligible for this call:

• Education and Training
• Health
• Natural Resource Management, Climate Change and Environment
• Democratic and Economic Governance
• Humanities, Culture, Media and Communication
• Capacity Development in South Sudan

Who can apply?

Eligible institutions for NORHED support are:

• In Low and Middle Income Countries: Higher Education Institutions accredited/recognised by in-country national authorities. Countries must be listed in OECD DAC’s register of official development assistance recipients, or listed in the specific call for applications.
• In Norway: Higher Education Institutions accredited by NOKUT (Norwegian Agency for Quality Education), offering accredited degree programmes, and operating in accordance with Guidelines for Quality Provision in Cross-Border Higher Education (UNESCO/OECD 2005)

The applications shall be submitted jointly by the LMIC and Norwegian partner institutions. The partnership shall select one partner institution to be the contract partner. For main NORHED projects, the preferred partnership model is where one of the South-based-institution holds the lead, underscoring the aim of southern partner ownership and capacity building. However, in situations where the LMIC partners do not have the capacity to take the project lead, the Norwegian partner can be the lead partner

Application deadline: The deadline for submission of the online application is 15 March 2013, at 15.00 CET.

Further Information: visit website www.norad.no/norhed