Four Integrated Programmes awarded
22 December 2009
As result of the Integrated Programmes subsidy of 2009, the WOTRO board awarded four new 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) Sustainable Environment; and (C) Global Relationships.
The following programmes have been awarded with a grant:
- Open source and commons in India and the Netherlands: New perspectives for development?
- PARASITE: Preparing African Rice Farmers Against Parasitic Weeds in a Changing Environment
- Safe drinking water in Bangladesh: an integrated framework assessing acceptability, social-technological feasibility and sustainability of hand-pump subsurface arsenic removal in diverse settings of rural Bangladesh
- The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) as a socio-economic and technical movement in India
