WOTRO Newsfl@sh 23 - April 2010

This is the electronic newsletter of WOTRO Science for Global Development. It is published every six weeks and provides information about deadlines, awarded subsidies, research results and policy.

News

E-mail consultation WOTRO strategy 2011-2014
Currently, WOTRO is preparing a Strategic Plan for the period 2011-2014. The draft Strategic Plan is based on consultations with a variety of key stakeholders. The WOTRO board kindly invites the scientific community, policy makers and development practitioners affiliated to WOTRO to comment on WOTRO’s plans for the future as outlined in the Plan. Read more...

Enthusiasm for WOTRO’s new strategy
Time for new beginnings! On March 23rd, as the bright spring sun appeared on the Dutch sky, WOTRO presented its draft Strategic Plan (2011-2014). Scientists and policy makers from governmental and non-governmental organisations from the development sector carefully studied WOTRO’s plans, resulting in lively discussions.  Read more...

Incentive Fund Open Access Publications
The General Board of NWO opened a promotion fund for Open Access publications. In 2010 a total amount of 5 million Euros has been made available, 2.5 million of which is available for the costs of publishing an open access article resulting from NWO-funded research. Applications can be submitted at any time until the available funds are exhausted. Read more...

NWO and WOTRO deadlines

Cooperation India - Social Science Cooperation India-Netherlands (SSCIN)
The Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) promote social science research collaborations between scholars and their institutions in India and the Netherlands. The call for the joint Scholar Exchange scheme, aimed at staff with an academic or research appointment, is now open! The purpose of this scheme is to strengthen the quality and potential of research in both countries by creating greater research interaction. Deadline for proposals is 18 May 2010, 16:00 hrs CET. Read more...  

More Cooperation India – New Medical Devices for Affordable Health
ZonMw opened a call for proposals to stimulate sustainable Indo-Dutch research collaboration by funding joint research projects on the topic of medical devices that have the explicit goal to reduce the costs of health care either in India or in the Netherlands. An additional goal is to stimulate the Dutch and Indian research field of medical devices. Deadline for proposals is 29 April 2010, 15:00 hrs CET. Read more...

Cooperation China – Hybrid conversion of biomass  The China Netherlands Joint Scientific Thematic Research Programme (JSTP) aims at stimulating sustainable research collaboration of Sino-Dutch research teams by funding joint research projects and thematic dialogue seminars. The 2010 call for research proposals addresses the topic Hybrid conversion of biomass. Seminars serve as foresighting exercises aimed at the identification of research topics for future joint research. Deadline for applications for both seminars and joint research projects is 27 April 2010, 11:00 hrs CET. Read more...

More Cooperation China – Waterways, harbours, estuaries and coastal engineering
This programme is jointly funded by NSFC and NWO and aims to foster research collaborations of Sino-Dutch research teams that share high ambitions to work together in sustainable joint research projects. The 2010 call for proposals addresses the research topic Waterways, harbours, estuaries and coastal engineering. Deadline for proposals is 29 April 2010, 11:00 hrs CET. Read more...

Other deadlines

Tracking Development Falsification Award
The Tracking Development project offers a prize of € 5000 to anybody who can convincingly demonstrate the following hypothesis to be untrue: Sustained poverty reduction takes place in any country where the following three preconditions are all simultaneously and consistently met: 1) adequate macroeconomic management; 2) economic freedom for peasants and small entrepreneurs; 3) pro-poor, pro-rural public spending. Deadline for submission is 1 May 2010. Read more...

Highlights of Research Results

Climate change one factor in malaria spread
Climate change is one reason that malaria is on the rise in some parts of the world, but other factors such as migration and land-use changes may also play a role. New research by the WOTRO funded researcher S. Koenraadt, aims to sort out contradictions that have emerged as scientists try to understand why malaria has spread into highland areas of East Africa, Indonesia, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Read more...

Publications

Religion as a Social and Spiritual Force This book, resulting from the NWO research programme 'The Future of the Religious Past', elaborates on the manifold and fascinating interconnections between power and religion. It carries forward the work of scholars from many disciplines and countries to research forms of religion in a way unfettered by the idea that religion is solely or even primarily a matter of belief in specific tenets or intellectual systems—it is also a matter of multiple particulars in individual and social life, such as powers, things, gestures, and words. Read more...

April-December - NWO Talent classes
The NWO-Talent Classes are days during which young researchers can make contacts and acquire skills which a scientist does not usually pick up during his training, such as networking, making presentations for the media and publishing successfully. Register now, as there are limited places! Read more...

4 May, 15 June, 30 June - Seminars: Can intervention strategies be context specific?
From May onwards, MDF Training & Consultancy, Vice Versa and the Institute of Social Studies organise 3 seminars for professionals working in development cooperation. During the seminars, critical thinkers, practitioners and scientists are invited to respond to Dutch policies per theme. The themes are: Governance in fragile states, Climate change and adaptation, Sustainability and the globalising agenda. Read more...

16-19 November - First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners announced the First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR) - Science to Accelerate Universal Health Coverage. Researchers, policy-makers, funders, and other stakeholders representing diverse constituencies will gather in Montreux, Switzerland to share evidence, identify significant knowledge gaps, and set a research agenda that reflects the needs of low and middle-income countries. Read more...