| 04.06.13 |
UTFORSK is a new Norwegian instrument for strengthening the linkage between higher education and research in international collaboration, and to increase cooperation between Norway and Brazil, China, India, Japan, Russia and South Africa.
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| 06.05.13 |
A new book has just been published, edited by Anne Hellum, together will Bill Derman and Kristin Sandvik, on 'Worlds of Human Rights. The Ambiguities of Rights Claiming in Africa'.
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| 03.05.13 |
RCN is pleased to invite interested parties to the SAS Radisson Scandinavia Hotel, the 28 May at 12:30 hrs.
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| 17.04.13 |
Norwegian R&D institutions, in all areas, can now apply for travel support and coverage of conference participation costs for female researchers from the South.
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| 07.03.13 |
As many of the researchers receiving funding from the various NORGLOBAL activities have research partners in East-Africa, we would like to make you aware of this announcement from East Africa Social Science Translation (EASST) Collaborative. Application deadline is 22nd March.
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| 27.02.13 |
The Research Council of Norway will be the Norwegian partner in a new programme aiming to advance research cooperation with South Africa. This is clear from the newly signed framework agreement between the two countries’ authorities.
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| 01.02.13 |
New ECONPOP posters The posters were presented by Magnus Hatlebakk and Vincent Somville, both senior researchers at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen. Hatlebakk presented his poster form the project “Gender of children, education and occupational choice in Nepal”, a project
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| 12.12.12 |
At its meeting 11-12 December 2012 the NORGLOBAL programme board decided upon 9 research projects for funding.
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| 10.12.12 |
The programme board meeting 11 and 12 December will decide on the NORGLOBAL/ INDNOR applications and the TaxCapDev applications. Information about the result will be posted on this site after the meeting.
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| 23.11.12 |
187 participants registered for the conference Research for Development, held at Litteraturhuset in Oslo 1 November, far beyond the expectations of the organisers.
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| 06.11.12 |
A total of approx. NOK 40 million is available for this call, while the total budget request to the programme is NOK 221,3 million.
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| 23.10.12 |
More Norwegian researchers should join the Global Change researcher networks, according to a study of Norwegian researchers’ ties to the four international Global Change programmes on climate, geosphere/biosphere, biodiversity and social science research.
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| 15.10.12 |
“Global health research forms an important part of the foundation for the Government’s health and care policies,” says Norway’s new Minister of Health and Care Services, Jonas Gahr Støre.
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| 17.09.12 |
The conference "Research for Development?" is organised as a cooperative effort between Norad, the Research Council of Norway, the Royal Norwegian Society of Science and Letters, the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences and the Norwegian Association for Development Research.
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| 07.09.12 |
Deadline is 1 October 2012 The National Research Foundation (NRF) and Department of Science and Technology (DST) in South Africa have developed a novel and innovative initiative with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) to establish the Southern African Young Scientists
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| 16.08.12 |
NOK 40 million will be available for the first call for proposals, targeting the social sciences and the humanities. The call will be published before 7 September.
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| 30.05.12 |
All applicants invited to submit full proposals, had the possibility of applying for a special workshop grant up to a maximum of EUR 11,000.
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| 21.02.12 |
The NORGLOBAL board received a total of 38 applications to the October 12 deadline. The call included the HUMPOL activity, the joint India/Women and Gender activity, the joint India/Globmek activity and the TaxCapDev.
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| 30.01.12 |
People in Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia distrust politicians, civil servants and people attached to the judiciary. Such attitudes are not necessarily the result of personal experience. ‘Because so many people assume that civil servants are corrupt, it is easy to behave accordingly,' says FAFO researcher Åse Berit Grødeland.
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| 30.01.12 |
Two books have recently been published based on research funded through the “Poverty and peace” (POVPEACE) activity under the NORGLOBAL programme; One on fisheries, the other on oil and gas.
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| 20.01.12 |
Invitation goes to the Research Council’s administration, project managers/researchers, communication staff and others who take interest in Social Sciences and Humanities. The meeting will be held in Norwegian.
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| 06.01.12 |
A simple video is now available which explains the Research Council of Norway’s grant application system and how applications are processed.
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| 22.12.11 |
On 20 December a joint call for proposals was launched for the research programme Population, Reproductive Health and Economic Development (“PopDev”), which in Norway is associated to the NORGLOBAL programme ECONPOP. In this current call, a budget of approximately €2.2 million is available for up to eight research programmes in total. Proposals must be submitted by international teams; the deadline for submission is 15 March 2012.
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| 22.11.11 |
CGIAR fellowships - 3 new projects are supported Project No. 212945 Title: Plant virus elimination by inducing RNA silencing in-vitro Project manager: Researcher Carl Spetz Institution: Bioforsk Plant Health Project No. 212949 Title: Assessing maize genetic resources for smallholder agriculture
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| 09.11.11 |
“One of the fundamental challenges facing development research today, is the assumption that economic growth is a good thing for long term poverty reduction,” says Professor Lawrence Haddad.
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| 28.10.11 |
The HUMPOL activity received 19 applications. The GLOBMEK and Gender activities, both had joint calls with the India programme, received 11 and 6 respectively. The CapTaxDev activity received 2. Total amount applied for was NOK 230 mill. The applications will be assessed by international experts,
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| 29.09.11 |
The seminar will take place 25 October at Voksenåsen Hotel, Oslo, and we are happy to announce that Professor Lawrence Haddad, Director of Institute of Development Studies in Sussex, has accepted to give the key note speech.
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| 05.09.11 |
Projects funded under the new research programme on Humanitarian Policy are faced with an uncommon requirement. To ensure relevance, project leaders are expected to meet the Ministry of Foreign Affairs within the first six months.
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| 01.09.11 |
All calls with deadline 12 October 2011.
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| 30.08.11 |
In May this year, the Research Council commissioned NUPI to prepare a literature review on humanitarian policy to help us in the preparation of the programme document and to make it available as a reference document to potential applicants.
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