[Ica-osgeo-labs] Researcher Link through NEWTON-MOSHARAFA Fund between UK, South African and Egypt

Mon Sep 7 07:54:30 PDT 2015

Hm, great opportunity, but also stretched here for the 28 Sept deadline. As far as I know, these calls are published regularly, so we should maybe keep our eye on future calls...

Regards,
Serena

On 07 Sep 2015, at 13:20, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi AbdelRahman, Thanks for your interest. 

All - May i also suggest that any UK university wishing to collaborate for this bid please inform Rania Elsayed [ranyaalsayed at gmail.com <mailto:ranyaalsayed at gmail.com>] before 10th Sep, so that she can coordinate this.

It will be really good if anyone from Newcastle, UCL , Southampton, USW , Warwick will be interested to  lead  this? As i informed Nottingham is bit over stretched at this moment for  the 28th Sep deadline, so wont be able to lead the UK bid component but will be happy to collaborate if any other university (Newcastle, UCL , Southampton, USW, Warwick) leads the UK component. Thanks.

Suchith

From: Mohamed AbdelRahman [maekaoud at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 07, 2015 9:14 AM
To: Suchith Anand
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Researcher Link through NEWTON-MOSHARAFA Fund between UK, South African and Egypt

Hi ALL,
I am also interested to join Newton.  I am interested in applications of geospatial techniques (remote sensing, GIS, GPS) and modeling (spatial and statistical molding) in the following items: Soil survey and mapping, land degradation, Desertification, soil improvement, land Resources evaluation; Land Capability, Land Suitability, land use planning, environmental hazard assessment, change detection, soil fertility, crop monitoring, and crop and soil management, climate impacts on agriculture and soil properties. 
 regards 

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk <mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Hi Rania,

Many thanks for this info. Looks like a great opportunity to also plan joint Newton and other bids building on this. It will be good opportunity for UK labs, University of Pretoria and National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences,  Egypt to put a joint bid  for this. .

Any UK colleagues interested to join please inform us. It will be good if there are two or more UK universities involved.

I will speak with my colleagues at Nottingham  (HealthGIS and AgriGIS are areas we have expertise) and let you know if we are able to contribute (the 28th Sep deadline is bit tight for us as we are already stretched in commitments to various other bids).

Best wishes,

Suchith
From: Rania Elsayed [ranyaalsayed at gmail.com <mailto:ranyaalsayed at gmail.com>]
Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2015 2:38 PM
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Subject: Researcher Link through NEWTON-MOSHARAFA Fund between UK, South African and Egypt

Bilateral workshops between Egyptian and UK researchers. Call for application is now open until 28 Sept 2015.

This element of the Newton Researcher Links is designed to provide financial support to bring together a UK/Egypt/South African trilateral cohort of early career researchers to take part in workshops focussing on building links for future collaboration and enhancing the researchers’ career opportunities. The programme is supported by UK, Egyptian and South African government funding and forms part of the Newton Fund 
http://www.britishcouncil.org/education/science/newton <http://www.britishcouncil.org/education/science/newton>

Each workshop will be coordinated by three Leading Researchers[1] <>, one from each country, and will focus either on a specific research area or on an interdisciplinary theme (for example ‘Sustainable Cities’). Workshop coordinators can identify up to three additional Leading or Established Researchers1(one from each country) to be involved in the workshop and act as mentors, but the remaining participants must be researchers at an earlier stage in their career.

Proposals in any discipline/multidisciplinary area will be accepted (including from the natural sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities).

Workshops may be specific to a particular field of research or interdisciplinary in nature.

They should focus on one of the following five themes:

·         Water management

·         Healthcare

·         Agriculture/food production

·         Renewable energy

·  Satellites and remote sensing 

It is expected that workshops will predominantly take place either in Egypt or in South Africa.

Workshops should take place between 1stFebruary 2016 and 31stJanuary 2017.

I find this is excellent opportunity to propose a workshop so who is interest to contribute in this initiative?

for more information, kindly see the attached documents
[1] <>For an indication of profiles for the different categories of participants, we suggest applicants refer to the European Commission document ‘Towards a European framework for research careers’ (http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/pdf/research_policies/Towards_a_European_Framework_for_Research_Careers_final.pdf <http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/pdf/research_policies/Towards_a_European_Framework_for_Research_Careers_final.pdf>). 

According to the categories in this document, we would suggest that coordinators and mentors should be at ‘R4 – Leading Researcher’ level or ‘R3 – Established Researcher’ level, and early career participants at ‘R2 –Recognized Researcher’ level or at the beginning of R3 level.

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