UniPID News
February 28, 2017 — CALLS FOR FUNDING UNDER THE FINCEAL PLUS PARTNERSHIP SUPPORT INSTRUMENT
FinCEAL Plus has launched calls for funding on a rolling basis for researchers based in Finnish Higher Education Institutions and Independent Research Institutions. The purpose of the grants is to support partnership building activities between the Finnish science community and their counterparts...
February 24, 2017 — Info Session: LEAP-AGRI Call for Proposals & Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 2
The Academy of Finland and UniPID will hold an Info Session on the LEAP-AGRI Call for Proposals on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture and Aquaculture and Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 2. The session will take place at the Academy of Finland's premises in Helsinki on...
February 20, 2017 — Master's Award ceremony at the Development Days Conference 2017
UniPID and the Finnish Society for Development Research awarded Marinka Räsänen the 2016 Master's Award in Development Studies. The winner, Marinka Räsänen, received a prize sum of 1000 euros for his environmental sciences thesis "Political economy and ecology of water control -...
February 20, 2017 — UniPID DocShop 2017 reflected on the career options and responsible professional practices of the development research PhDs
UniPID DocShop 2017: Life after the PhD - Responsible professional practices for development researchers in the contemporary world was organized in Helsinki on February 16, 2017 in connection with the annual Development Days conference.
January 20, 2017 — Decisions for UniPID Seminar Grants 2017
UniPID organizes a yearly call for Seminar Grants for UniPID member universities, to organize a seminar that discusses a topic related to international development or global challenges. The decisions for the UniPID Seminar Grants 2017 have been made and in total 6000 euros were granted to four...
January 19, 2017 — FinCEAL Plus Africa and LAC at the BALEWARE Conference 2016
In December, FinCEAL Plus wound up the year by co-organizing the BALEWARE conference on Bridging Africa, Latin America and Europe on Water and Renewable Energies Applications in Arusha, Tanzania.
January 12, 2017 — LEAP-AGRI Pre-Call Announcement
The ERA-NET Cofund LEAP-AGRI is set to publish a joint call for research on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture and Aquaculture in early 2017.
December 22, 2016 — Master's Award in Development Studies 2016 to Marinka Räsänen from JyU
UniPID and the Finnish Society for Development Research awarded Marinka Räsänen the 2016 Master's Award in Development Studies. The winner receives a prize sum of 1000 euros for his environmental sciences thesis " Marinka Räsänen: Political economy and ecology of water control -...
December 12, 2016 — UniPID-FinCEAL Plus STI Crossroads Seminar: FinCEAL+ Asia: Inter-sectoral Research Cooperation - Focus Asia Workshop organized in Helsinki 27 October 2016
The Focus Asia workshop on Thursday afternoon gathered together almost 40 participants. The afternoon session featured interesting speakers and their case examples of research cooperation between universities and industry and other stakeholders in several regions in Asia including India, Southeast...