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New Call for Regional Research Project Proposals

New Call for Regional Research Project Proposals

The University of Fribourg, Switzerland, has launched a call for regional research project proposals for researchers and institutions from and residing in the Western Balkans, including Albania. The Regional Research Promotion Programme (RRPP) is funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), and was initially launched in 2007. It aims to establish and strengthen research capacities in the field of social sciences in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosova, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.

The research topics to be submitted should be relevant to transitional themes while addressing and analysing specific issues under investigation from a social science perspective. Furthermore, the proposals must fit into the regional umbrella topic, “Political, Social and Economic Change in the Western Balkans”. This includes the following priority areas:

  • Rule of Law and Democracy (democratisation, decentralisation and local governance, judicial reform, social inclusion, strengthening civil society and democratic law making, other);
  • Economic Development and Social Change (social inclusion, inclusive market and value chain development, youth employability, migration and remittances, human capital, other);
  • "Managing Diversity” (national, ethnic and religious identities, gender, youth, minorities incl. Roma).

    • The RRPP provides funding to researchers from the region conducting relevant research projects. The call for proposals is managed by RRPP Management, hosted at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

    On July the 8th, the Swiss Cooperation Office in Albania in cooperation with the University of Fribourg, organised a conference with presentations from 5 regional research projects from Albania which marked the end of the previous phase.

    The official application form must be used to submit research proposals by the deadline of Monday, 19 September 2011.

    Please find additional information and all related applications via this link:
    www.rrpp-westernbalkans.net/calls

     
    Last update: 2011-08-31 03:52:12
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