APPEAR 10th Call

The 10th call was opened from 1 March to 31 May 2023. After several months of evaluation, the APPEAR Selection Board, chaired by the Austrian Development Agency, met at the end of November to discuss the submitted project and scholarship applications. After a presentation of the projects by the APPEAR Office, each project that met the formal requirements and was positively reviewed, was discussed, and evaluated based on the APPEAR criteria, including the guiding principles and added values. In a competitive process, 6 Academic Partnership project applications were finally selected with a total funding volume of about EUR 2 Mio.

 

The team of BOKU-International Relations sends many congratulations to

• Prof. Thomas Ertl for the Academic Partnership Project "Project320: Assessment of Pollutant Emissions to support River Basin Management in Albania according to the EU Water Framework Directive";
• to Priv.-Doz. Dr. Maria Wurzinger for the Preparatory Funding Prep269: Taking a multi-level perspective on community-based livestock breeding in Ethiopia: From niche to mainstream and
• to Dr. Johanna Burtscher zum Preparatory Funding "Prep266: Indigenous Processing and Microbial Dynamics of Metata Ayib: a Traditional Fermented Dairy Product in Ethiopia; Coordinating institution: Bahir Dar Institute of Technology (BIT)".

 

Further information on the current selected APPEAR projects

 

BOKU is the university with most APPEAR projects in Austria, as the following selected reports impressively underline:

 

1. Sustainable Management of Armenian Aquatic Ecosystem Services
2. Promoting Sustainable Development and Environmental Chemistry
3. Alumni Talk with Tigran Keryan, Armenia
4. PhD research on the Vjosa river system
5. Transforming livestock breeding through genomic expertise
6. PhD study on sustainable land use for coffee production in Uganda
7. Research and practice on Agro-ecology in the Rwenzori Region in Uganda