APPEAR News
- Success for BOKU with APPEAR projects:
After an evaluation phase lasting several months, the APPEAR selection board, consisting of seven national and international experts, met end of November in Vienna under the chairmanship of the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) to advise and discuss submitted project and scholarship applications. In a competitive process, 8 project applications were finally approved for funding, including 6 Academic Partnership (2 of them are coordinated by BOKU and other 2 with BOKU participation) and 2 Advanced Academic Partnership projects (both coordinated by BOKU). The funding volume for these projects totals around EUR 3.1 million. 10 Preparatory Funding projects were selected after evaluation by all members of the selection committee – one is coordinated by BOKU and BOKU participates in 4 further projects.
Congratulations to all BOKU project leaders! We are looking forward to receiving further BOKU project submissions within the 10th APPEAR call which is expected to open on 1 March 2023.
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- First graduates from the Organic Agriculture Masters Programme (SOOA project)
The Organic Agriculture Masters Programme was participatorily designed and developed within the previous BOAA project implemented by BOKU and ANAU.
Since 2017 academic and non-academic partners have worked together in the BOAA project, followed by the SOAA project to create the first master programme of organic agriculture in Armenia and the wider region. In November 2022, the time had come: Flowers, smiles, high spirits, all these completed the festive mood at the National Agrarian University of Armenia graduation ceremony. The first Organic Agriculture Masters Programme students received their master's degrees and entered the next "organic" phase of their lives.
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- BOKU APPEAR scholars & alumni
- Hasmik Hovakimyan from Armenia finalised her PhD with excellence – she graduated on 2 June 2022 from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna
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- APPEAR scholar Gerald Kwikiriza presented his research manuscript entitled 'Introgressive hybridization levels of Tilapiines species in Lake Victoria basin, Kenya inferred from microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA genotyping based on next-generation sequencing' at the Aquatic Resources and Blue Economy Conference in Kisumu, Kenya. Gerald has an International Joint Master’s Degree of Limnology and Wetland Management obtained from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (Austria), Egerton University (Kenya) and IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft (The Netherlands).
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- APPEAR scholar Hiwot Abebe recently graduated from the double degree master's programme in Organic Agricultural Systems and Agroecology (EUR-Organic) at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU).
Read more on her insights and experiences
10.01.2023