Five Integrated Programmes awarded
29 juni 2009
In June 2009 the WOTRO board awarded five Integrated Programmes, each between 500.000 and 700.000 Euro. Each programme consists of three or more (inter)related Ph.D. and/or post-doc projects. The Integrated Programme scheme is aimed at supporting excellent problem-oriented interdisciplinary research to the benefit of development and societal issues in the South.An Integrated Programme may address developmental and societal issues: in a broad sense that may lead to new insights, theories and/or breakthroughs in current knowledge and understanding or fitting within one or more of four themes of WOTRO’s framework: (A) Poverty and Hunger; (B) Global Health and Health Systems; (C) Sustainable Environment (D) Global Relationships.
The following programmes have been awarded with a grant:
- Nanotechnologies for development in India, Kenya and The Netherlands: Towards a framework for democratic governance of risks in developing countries
- Legal Empowerment as a means to development? A political-legal study of rights invocation by pollution victims in China and Indonesia
- The impact of non-tuberculous mycobacteria and host genetics on immunological responsiveness (resistance/susceptibility) of Cattle and African Buffaloes to BCG vaccination and Mycobacterium bovis infection in South Africa
- Provincial Globalisation: The Impact of Reverse Transnational Flows in India's Regional Towns
- Competing Hegemonies: Foreign-dominated processes of development in Cambodia
