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🌟 Day 258- Grant Number 238 - Grant Alert: 🌟 🚨 Exciting Funding Opportunity for Global Research Projects! 🚨 Apply Now - https://snis.ch/funding/ The Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) has opened its 2025 Annual Call for Projects, offering up to CHF 300,000 for innovative, interdisciplinary research addressing global challenges. 🌍 This is your chance to make a real impact with your research! Eligibility Criteria: Pluri-disciplinary Research: Your proposal must demonstrate a multi-disciplinary approach involving experts from different academic backgrounds. International Studies Focus: Projects must address issues on the international agenda, requiring global cooperation and collaboration with International Organizations (IOs), NGOs, or the private sector. Formal Criteria: Hosting institution must be a Swiss university or research institution. Project coordinators must be employed with at least 40% FTE at their hosting institution. Co-funding must amount to at least 25% of the requested funds. Evaluation Criteria: Academic Originality & Rigor (70%) Quality literature review, clear research gap, innovative methods, and a strong interdisciplinary team. Projected Outputs & Dissemination (30%) Ambitious academic outputs, impactful dissemination strategy, and effective data-sharing plans. Key Deadlines: Pre-Proposal Deadline: January 22, 2025 Full Proposal Deadline: May 14, 2025 This is your opportunity to contribute to the global dialogue on critical issues! #ChanakyaAdvisors #ResearchFunding #GlobalStudies #InterdisciplinaryResearch #Innovation #InternationalCooperation #AcademicExcellence #NGOCollaboration #PolicyImpact #SwissResearch #FundingOpportunity #SNIS

South African Family Practice (SAFP) is now included in SciELO SA – yet another DHET-approved index to which SAFP is now added. SciELO SA, a prestigious index, forms part of the SciELO Network, and is administered and maintained by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf). SciELO SA has a strict set of inclusion criteria to which all journals indexed in it must adhere; only once a journal meets these criteria can it be included in this index. This reflects the quality of the researchers who contribute to SAFP as well as the reviewers that review their submissions – and, by extension, the works that get published in SAFP. Being included in this world-renowned index thus represents yet another step towards making the footprint of SAFP and the works published in it truly global, while staying relevant to the journal’s home and the people it serves. The knowledge disseminated through SAFP is even more visible and accessible now that it is included on this respected platform. And, in line with its open-access publishing model, new content of SAFP will be available directly on SciELO SA in HTML and PDF formats. We are pleased to invite you to submit your manuscript to the SAFP. This could allow your work to gain international exposure upon consideration for publication.

Greetings, The purpose for every research output is for it to reach its target audience. Crafting the right content and identifying the channel through which your output can best reach your audience is key to attaining your objectives. Join the Nkafu Policy Institute, think tank of the Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation for our Capacity Building Workshop for Researchers in the ECCAS Region on the theme “Media as a tool for disseminating research results”. This training will take place on February 16, 2024 from 3:00pm to 4:00pm (GMT +1) Zoom. The main objective of this workshop is to share experience on how to disseminate research results for social and policy change in key areas including though not limited to individual rights, governance and accountability, and regional integration. Specifically, it will focus on: Deepening general knowledge on dissemination tools Understanding research communication challenges and relevance Understanding research results dissemination mix Optimizing implementation of research communication through monitoring and evaluation

The MSCA Staff Exchanges call is a consortium research grant open to different types of organisations which funds international and inter-sectoral exchanges of staff who are involved in research and innovation activities.   On 09 October the Irish Marie Sklodowska-Curie Office held a webinar on the MSCA Staff Exchanges call. A recording of our Staff Exchanges webinar, along with the presentation slides from our presenters, are available on the Irish Universities Association event page: https://lnkd.in/ePNPrqJH The MSCA Staff Exchanges call is currently open with a deadline of 05 February 2025. See List of Participating Countries in Horizon Europe: https://lnkd.in/ei2qy-CM If you are considering involving entities from Brazil and India (both Third Countries who are not in the list of low to middle income countries automatically eligible for funding) in your consortium, you may also be interested in recent announcements from the Commission regarding the news that both countries have created calls that will allow them to fund entities from their countries participating in the MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024 call:   Brazil: https://lnkd.in/emwyzj-X India: https://lnkd.in/eF-Vd32g The Irish Marie Sklodowska Curie Office is supported by Research Ireland and jointly operated with Irish Universities Association.

IRSPM 2024 Conference in Tampere is in full swing. I am grateful that I could present ongoing research on citizen participation in regional governance (as “action by citizens directed toward influencing or supporting governance outcomes” in the context of regional policy and an ongoing place branding processes with Erik Hans Klijn Jasper Eshuis and Maria Belén Yanotti. We explored network interaction variables (interactions with others in the network and trust in other in the network) with sociological and psychological literature on participation (power or capacity to influence outcomes in the network) and amotional aspects (attachment to place). Some key learnings: ✔ Interactions with others in the network matter, as they increase participation (significant in both cases) ✔ Trust in others in thr network matters (only in the Australian context) ✔ BUT, place attachment (affective, emotional connection) matters in some regions (Spanish case). ✔ The context of regions matters (how does social capital form in those regions; history of public participation). Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB) Tasmanian School of Business and Economics (TSBE) European Research Council (ERC) European Committee of the Regions

The thirty-fifth of the weekly series of posts about “the book” (The Emerald Handbook of Research Management and Administration Around the World) The Profession of Research Management and Administration in South Africa by Les Labuschagne https://lnkd.in/eZm2NK7A This final African chapter in the Countries section covers RMA in South Africa. ChatGPT summary of the chapter: The South African research ecosystem has evolved significantly since the end of Apartheid in 1994. Key reforms include the establishment of a National System of Innovation (NSI) and the restructuring of higher education, marked by the 1997 Higher Education Act and subsequent institutional mergers. The system now includes 26 public universities, with research activities driven primarily by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) and the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI). Research output is measured through publication output units (POUs), with funding tied to DHET-approved journals. While progress has been made in inclusivity and capacity building, challenges remain, including the need for increased doctoral qualifications and professionalization of research management. You can of course read the whole book, chapter by chapter, online for free. https://lnkd.in/dNdEYsRj Or if you are desperate to own a hardcopy then use code EME30 at the checkout at Emerald Books: https://lnkd.in/erGU-4tS International Network of Research Management Societies NCURA: National Council of University Research Administrators Society of Research Administrators International Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS) Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association (SARIMA) BRAMA Brazil - Associação Brasileira de Gestão e Administração de Pesquisa Científica COREMA MYRMA ARMA UK (Association of Research Managers and Administrators) EARMA Canadian Association of Research Administrators ARMA - NL #RMA #BookAnnouncement #OpenAccess #ResearchAdministration #ResearchManagement #Book #Research #ResearchSupport #Profession

Sustainability is not just a buzzword; it is the focus even at the higher education level. Hence, this collaboration with my colleagues on fostering a sustainable approach to doctoral studies. It was our first poster presentation, and it was a learning curve for us too. Looking forward to more opportunities for collaborations for sustainability. #sustainability #lifelonglearning #sdgs

Dear networks, It is for me, an honor and pride to have been selected by the African Reproducibility Network (AREN) and to be part of the first cohort of participants in training to be invested with a mission, that of representing AREN as Local Network Lead at my university in Benin. AREN aims to promote open science which essentially works to break down the barriers to knowledge and make science a public good in an approach of transparency, accessibility, reproducibility, and broad collaboration in the research process. The mission would be to ensure that the notions of open science and open access are grasped by the scientific community and take root in practices. Specifically, the overcoming challenges are to :  - promoting awareness and education by organizing training and workshops; Incorporate Open Science in Curricula ; - Establishing and Strengthening Networks by creating Local Open Science Groups and forming Regional Consortia - Fostering collaboration and partnerships which means Partner with International Networks; participating in Global OS Events and Engage Stakeholders and public - Invest in Infrastructure and Technical Support by investing in Open Infrastructure (e.g. Repositories) and Standardize Data Practices

We should focus on doing more and more research in Namibia that is tailor-made to improve our education system in the country. It is high time that institutions of high learning begin to solicit research presentations from other scholars outside their institution. Some of these scholars might have done, or are doing research which are educational transformative by nature and can change the education landscape in the country. Waiting for in-house lectures, and educational experts to produce research, whilst not giving chances to others outside does not strengthen one's institution in research, let alone ranking internationally. Thus calls for research should be outstretched to other scholars and researchers too.

Facilitating better futures for groups is what I do....the Futtures Thinking approach is a powerful method to leverage on history, acknowledge current reality AND create a number OD desired alternative futures! #futures #Innovation