Call for strengthening the science collaboration with developing countries in the Asia-Pacific Region, Latin America and the Caribbean The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has published a call for fostering the collaboration in science and innovation with developing countries including ACP-countries of the Pacific. The specific objectives of the call are: - Joint research and exchange of scientific staff - Support of German Universities, research organisations and small and medium sized enterprises to internationalize their research - Developing of new and consolidating existing research cooperations - Integrating local and regional know-how and making it available - Establishing “innovation kernels” in the target countries and strengthening them, to improve the competitiveness of the respective target country - Preparation of follow-up projects – at the thematic programmes of BMBF, DFG, the national programmes of the target country (if programmes are available), the EU-programmes or programmes of national and international organisations dealing with development cooperation (KfW, GIZ, World Bank, ADB, etc.) - Analysis of the research and development capacities of the target country in a specific thematic area, evaluation of this capacity in terms of the suitability of this capacity for initiation of more continuous cooperation. The thematic areas of the call are: - health (e.g. epidemiology) - biotechnology including biodiversity - environmental research with emphasis on environmental technologies, energy, water, climate and marine research - engineering (e.g. manufacturing, architecture, logistics) - information and communication technologies The call could fund: - exchange of scientific staff and experts (from Germany to ACP-countries of the Pacific and from ACP-countries of the Pacific to Germany) - workshops - consumables Eligible applicants are German research institutes, universities and enterprises, specifically small and medium sized enterprises. In addition to the German applicant, at least one scientific institute or SME from the ACP-countries of the Pacific need to participate. The maximum possible funding amount is 40.000 € per project for two years. Deadline for application is: 31 July 2013. pacenet.eu/news/call-strengthening-science-collaboration-developing-countries-asia-pacific-region-latin-america
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:53:18 +0000
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