The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hereby invites applications for travel grants in support of thesis field work of master students enrolled at a Danish higher education institution.

The applicant must be a master student enrolled at a Danish higher education institution. Students on OSVAL II studies/pre-graduate research year for medical students, and students on a 4+4 arrangement are eligible for a travel grant only if the field study is considered part of the master degree and will be used for a report equivalent to a master thesis.       

The applicant must fill in the electronic application form and attach the following documents (of maximum 4mb each) to the application:

1.  Signed approval of the project from the supervisor stating the title of the project, in which country the field study is taking place, the relevance for the thesis and finally a guarantee for the academic level of the field study project. In cases of OSVAL II/pre-graduate research year students and students on a 4+4 arrangement applying for a travel grant, the supervisor must explicitly state that the field study is considered part of the master degree and will be used for a report equivalent to a master thesis.

2.  As documentation of local attachment, a signed official approval from the local partner in the country where the field study is to be carried out. The local partner could, in the country designated for field study, for example be the Embassy of Denmark, a local office of a Danish or international NGO, a local NGO, adepartment of a university, a research institution, a private company, or a specific development project/programme. 

3.  Copies of relevant examination certificates.

The instructions given in the electronic application form must be followed. Applications, which do not include all required information and attach all the above mentioned documents to the application, will be rejected without further consideration. Missing information/documents cannot be submitted after the electronic submission of the application.

It is the responsibility of the applicant to obtain all relevant ethical approvals and other required permits before field study project activities are initiated.

The grant may cover some or all of the following expenses:

- Cheapest travel by air

- Visa, vaccination, research permit and travel insurance expenses

- Interpreting assistance

- Local transport (only individual invoices of more than DKK 200 each)

- Lodging expenses

The size of the grant will normally be between DKK 10,000 and DKK 15,000 per person.

The application must be written in English.

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Asia-Pacific Network (APN) for global change research has launched its 2012 call for proposals in its two program areas.

Proposals in ARCP should involve at least three APN member countries, two of which should be developing countries. Proposals in CAPaBLE should build scientific capacity in at least one developing country of the Asia-Pacific region.

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Fondation de France wishes to draw the interest of researchers in academic disciplines such as social sciences (sociology, anthropology, etc.), epidemiology, public health or applied research. Fondation de France will particularly focus on young researchers (PhD or postdoctoral students).

The goal of Foundation de France is to support projects that will help the targeted populations in the short or medium term.

Research fields will include the following geographic areas:

• French overseas departments in America (French Caribbean Islands and French Guyana);

• African countries;

• In Asia : Cambodia, India, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam;

• In South America: Brazil and Argentina.

Special attention will be paid to projects focusing on at least one of the following topics:

• the impact of HIV on reproductive health;

• co-morbidities and co-infections (e.g. Papillomavirus infection HPV);

• positive or negative consequences on women of partial efficacy prevention tools (microbicides, circumcision...);

• violence against women and its fallout in terms of HIV;

• hindrances to the involvement of men in the fight against the epidemic, either as an individual (within the family unit), or as a member of a group (within the community), and proposed means of overcoming these hindrances.

The support from the Fondation de France will, in a matter of priority, provide grants to research teams. Part of the grant can be used to finance the salary or as mobility grants for a post-doctoral researcher and/or for a PhD student.

The support will consist in annual (possibly renewable) or multi-year grants (with a maximum duration of 3 years). The “AIDS research” programme of the Fondation de France manages for 2012 a global budget of approximately 500,000 Euros.

Proposal must be received before October 15, 2012 for the second session. The grant application form should be submitted in two printed copies AND one electronic copy.

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