UniPID News
December 19, 2017 — Master's Award in Development Studies to Antti Tarvainen
Antti Tarvainen from University of Helsinki has been awarded the 2017 Master's Award in Development Studies, handed out by UniPID and Finnish Society for Development Research. UniPID and the Finnish Society for Development Research received 21 submissions competing for this year's...
November 29, 2017 — FinCEAL+ Targeted Travel Grants available for FAUBAI 2018 in Rio de Janeiro and Open Science Forum for LAC in Panama City
FinCEAL+ LAC has opened two Targeted Travel Grant Calls to support the participation of experts based in Finnish institutions to the following events: FAUBAI 2018: Internationalization and Research: Challenges and Strategies, 14-18 April, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil CILAC 2018: Open Science Forum...
November 28, 2017 — Report from UniPID workshop: Tackling with temporalities, cultures and locations of ”Gender” and ”Development”
UniPID organized the workshop session Tackling with Temporalities, Cultures and Locations of ‘Gender’ and ‘Development’: From Global Sisterhood to Queer Dystopias as a part of the 2017 Gender Studies Conference at the University of Jyväskylä. The workshop was divided into two sessions,...
November 14, 2017 — akshay khanna to visit Finnish universities
akshay khanna is a Social Anthropologist, a Lawyer, an activist, a theatre practitioner and a development practitioner who is visiting Finland, invited by UniPID. The purpose of akshay's visit is to participate in the workshop work and panel of the Gender Studies Conference, organized at the...
November 7, 2017 — Event Invitation: Finnish-SADC Research and Innovation Cooperation in Health and Nutrition, 4th December
FinCEAL Plus and SANBio/BioFISA II (co-funded by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs), are organizing the above joint event in Helsinki on 4th December, 14.00 - 17.00 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Laivastokatu 22, Engel Hall. 15 representatives from projects funded by SANBio/BioFISA II...
October 26, 2017 — Success stories from the ERAfrica Partnership booklet published
The ERAfrica project, funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme, was the first to bring together research funders from Africa and Europe to jointly design and launch instruments, regulations, and procedures for funding collaborative, bi-regional research projects. With a total of...
October 26, 2017 — Cultures and Locations of "Gender" and "Development" - UniPID Workshop at the Gender Studies Conference
Thepanel discusses historical changes and continuities in research, social movements, activism, policies and intervention practices regarding two highly problematized concepts, ‘gender’ and ‘development’.
October 16, 2017 — FinCEAL Plus participated in the EU-CELAC Knowledge Week in El Salvador, 2-6 October 2017
UniPID/FinCEAL Plus LAC participated in the first EU-CELAC Knowledge Week celebrated in El Salvador on October 2-6, 2017. The week was packed with events that aimed at strengthening the dialogue between the two regions on various topics related to higher education, scientific, technological and...
September 25, 2017 — FinCEAL Plus is preparing for the China-Finland Co-creating New Solutions for Education and Health - seminar in Beijing, China on 9th October 2017
UniPID - Finnish University Partnership for International Development / FinCEAL Plus, China - Finland Strategic ICT Alliance and Beijing Normal University - Sino-Finnish Joint Learning Innovation Institute (JoLII) are organizing a high-level, bi-regional research seminar focusing on Science,...