Congratulations to Dr. Ram C. Bhujel, Affiliated Faculty, in the Aquaculture and Aquatic Resources Management (AARM) Field whose proposal submitted under the EU-FP7 Programme has been selected for funding. The 36-month project entitled "Sustainable Aquaculture Research Networks in Sub-Saharan Africa - (SARNISSA)" will start in January 2008, and be coordinated by the University of Stirling, UK, with AARM-AIT, as one of the key partners in the project. The total estimated budget of the project is 996,037 Euro.
Under the project AARM-AIT will play a key role in producing the Aquaculture Compendium (AC) from the viewpoint of using Asian aquaculture, and it will look at the dissemination and its impacts thereafter. AARM-AIT will host and assist key African stakeholders to visit Asia, especially Aqua Outreach partners and also work in reviewing the impacts on final users of the case studies compiled in the AC, so that they can be taken forward as a template.