20 cooperation iniciatives, thanks to the Solidarity Fund UAB

The two calls from the Solidarity Fund of the UAB have been resolved: on the one hand, ten projects of cooperation and education for the development promoted by PDI and PAS have been aproved. On the other hand, ten initiatives of master and PhD students have also been aproved.

25/06/2018

The ten approved cooperation projects correspond to training, research and technical advice in the areas of shelter, health, environmental justice and ethno-biology.

The Solidarity Fund is the UAB’s instrument to promote universitary cooperation for developement that contributes to the creation of favourable conditions for building a fairer world, more democratic and sustaineble. The Fund does two anual calls of grants: one directed to PDI and PAS and another for postgraduate students.

The call for PDI and PAS has been resolved with the aprovation of then proposals. Eight of them are cooperation projects and two of them are initiatives in the education for development. Within the framework of cooperation projects with countries from the South, universitary cooperation actions oriented to the improvement of the teaching quality and the creation of research capacities.

The ten approved cooperation projects correspond to training, research and technical advice in the areas of shelter, health, environmental justice and ethno-biology. These actions will begin during 2018 and will be carried out in Gambia, Nicaragua, Peru, Uganda, South Africa, Brazil, Chile and the Mauritius Islands together with university centers in these countries.

In the line of education for development, two proposals to be implemented in the context of the UAB will be financed: one focused on communication as a tool for social cohesion and against racism, and another focused on food sovereignty work.

On the other hand, the other call aimed at encouraging the participation of master and PhD students in university cooperation actions has been resolved with the approval of ten projects directly linked to the studies of the applicants. They will be developed in: Senegal, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, Kenya, Argentina, Palestine and Ethiopia.

Projects funded call FSXXXV 2017-2018

Projects funded call for students E2017-2018