Web sites could provide research, scholarship funding
Prof. Sudip K. Rakshit, vice president for research, informed that the Sponsored and Contracted Projects Office is in the process of setting up a Web-browsing team that would look for updates and research opportunities on the Internet. Please see below the useful sites provided by Dr. Harianto and his team at ITServ.
Some URLs for research funding opportunities:
Clean Air Initiative Asia funding opportunities: http://www.cleanairnet.org/asia/1412/propertyvalue-26654.html#h2_1
International Foundation for Science research grants: http://www.gdnet.org/middle.php?oid=986
European Tropical Forest Research Network's Asia Funding opportunities: http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/resource/linkfund.html#asia
Below are two scholarship research opportunities for students:
Asian Development Bank Government of Japan Scholarship Program:
http://www.gdnet.org/middle.php?oid=982
Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture Ph.D. research scholarships 2006-2007: http://www.gdnet.org/middle.php?oid=982
Prof. Rakshit also requested AIT faculty and staff members to e-mail information to izel@ait.ac.th
regarding publications, presentations or projects they may have obtained in the year 2006 which SCPO will include in the first version of a bi-monthly electronic 'AIT Research Update' to be expectedly sent out on 3 April.
SCPO has already compiled information on projects received and is requesting inputs for proposals sent, papers published, presentations, etc. in the last three months.