Dear all,
please find attached a LEAP-RE funding call pre-announcement. LEAP-RE (Long-term Joint AU-EU Research and Innovation Partnership on Renewable Energy) is a programme with 94 consortium partners, co-funded by the European Commission (Horizon 2020).
One part of the LEAP-RE activities is implementing transnational joint Calls for Proposals for collaborative projects, co-funded by European and African national research funding agencies and with an additional EC top-up. The Finnish funding agency involved is the Academy of Finland.
Consortia applying for funding must consist of research teams from a minimum of four countries from Europe and Africa, with at least 2 from European countries and at least 2 from African countries.
The final Call should be published on 15 January 2021, with a deadline for pre-proposals on 1 April 2021.
See the attached pre-announcement for more information.
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Forwarded by:
Johanna Kivimäki
Director
Finnish University Partnership for International Development (UniPID)
University of Jyväskylä
Tel. +358 (0)40 805 4136
Email: johanna.a.m.kivimaki(a)jyu.fi<mailto:johanna.a.m.kivimaki@jyu.fi>
Web address: www.unipid.fi<http://www.unipid.fi/>
Join us next week on 8 December at 16:00 with Myles Wickstead for the next event in our WIDER Webinar Series<https://www.wider.unu.edu/node/237129>.
Full details on the event page: https://www.wider.unu.edu/event/myles-wickstead-changing-face-aid-and-devel…
Aid and development: Where we are, how we got here, and where it might all go
This webinar will begin with Professor Myles Wickstead setting out how notions of aid and development have evolved since the end of the Second World War, and how they relate to broader international political and economic dynamics.
The presentation will consider how the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reflected the world order of the 1990s, and how the Sustainable Development Goals reflect shifts in the balance of power and an increasing recognition that issues like climate change and pandemics can only be addressed through global cooperation. It will consider progress so far and prospects up to 2030 (not least reflecting on the implications of coronavirus and the growth of populism and nationalism).
Dr Nilima Gulrajani will respond to and build on the presentation. She will suggest traditional DAC norms of donorship are directly challenged by several domestic and international forces, resulting in some notable convergences between Northern and Southern development providers. Consideration will be given to the fallout of such convergence for the future of Official Development Assistance as a political construct and a policy target.
Join the webinar to find out more: Registration link<https://www2.wider.unu.edu/crm/content/webinar-series-8-december>
For more details please contact toppari(a)wider.unu.edu<mailto:toppari@wider.unu.edu>
Ruby Richardson
Communications Assistant
United Nations University World Institute for
Development Economics Research
Phone +358 (0)9 615 99257
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