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Granted Tag-along Project 2019
Published: 08 May 2019
Each year, the Committee on Global Development announces funds for employees and doctoral students to have the opportunity to broaden their competence in the field of global development by visiting projects or meeting representatives of existing networks in low-income countries.
Now, Dean Torleif Härd has, on a proposal from the committee, decided which projects will be granted funding for Tag-along trips.
- Name of applicant: Assem Abu Hatab
Department of Economics
Project title: Developing a SLU-Egypt Research Network for Future Research Cooperation in Areas of Environmental Changes, Food Security and Migration
Destination of the project: Egypt
Estimates: SEK 42,950 - Name of applicant: Wondmagegn Tirkaso and Abenezer Zeleke Aklilu
Department of Economics
Project title: Youth rural urban migration: implications for sustainable agriculture, education and health. A collaborative pre-analysis survey between SLU and KMU
Destination of the project: Ethiopia
Estimates: SEK 76,700 - Name of applicant: Jose Fernando Gil
Department of Plant Biology
Project title: Pomoviruses infecting potato in the South American Andes, epidemiological risk and assessment
Destination of the project: Colombia
Estimates: SEK 32,000 - Name of applicant: Birhanu Adamie and Tsegaye Ginbo Gatiso
Department of Economics
Project title: Building Sustainable and Resilient Coffee Sector in Ethiopia
Destination of the project: Ethiopia
Estimates: SEK 72,250