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

Mon Sep 7 08:42:23 PDT 2015

they only need application form as attached and I find it great
opportunity to get it particularly the workshop will take place
between 1stFebruary
2016 and 31stJanuary 2017. so we have enough time to be prepared.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Serena Coetzee <serenacoetzee at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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] 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> 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]
>> *Sent:* Saturday, September 05, 2015 2:38 PM
>> *To:* Suchith Anand; ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org;
>> africa.gfa.chair at osgeo.org
>> *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
>>
>> 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
>> ).
>>
>> 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.
>> 
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Thanks & Regards
>> Rania Elsayed Ibrahim, PhD. Computers & Information
>> Researcher,
>> Division of Scientific Training & Continuous Studies,
>> National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt.
>> *23, Joseph Tito St., ElNozha El-Gedida, Cairo, Egypt.                  *
>> *P.O.Box: 1564 Alf-Maskan       *
>> *Tel:  (202) 26225832, 26251200      *
>> *Fax: (202) 26225832  *
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> *M.A.E. AbdelRahman*
>
> Mohamed AbdelRahman Elsayed AbdelRahman (Pedology / GIS / RS)
>
> Researcher, Division of Environmental Studies and Land Use, National
> Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Egypt.
>
> Tel. +2 01004781114
>
> Tel. +2 01110084413
>
> *PhD. Soil Science & Agricultural Chemistry Department, **University (UAS
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Thanks & Regards
Rania Elsayed Ibrahim, PhD. Computers & Information
Researcher,
Division of Scientific Training & Continuous Studies,
National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt.

*23, Joseph Tito St., ElNozha El-Gedida, Cairo, Egypt.                  *

*P.O.Box: 1564 Alf-Maskan       *

*Tel:  (202) 26225832, 26251200      *
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