NCCR North South Central Asia

The first IGS North-South Summer School (formerly the ITC of the NCCR North-South) will take place from 23 to 29 August 2012 in Switzerland.

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The IGS North-South is dedicated to establishing a leading international research network that analyses the impacts of global change with a view to advancing sustainable development worldwide. It emphasises an integrative, partnership-based research approach encompassing higher education …

The 3rd ICRD on Research for Global Transformation is the NCCR North-South’s final major event, and, as such, will be a showcase for what the 12-year programme has achieved since its launch in 2001.
The conference will offer participants an opportunity to discuss their experiences with research partnerships. Its objectives are to:
• share and discuss most recent insights on development-oriented research …

Regional Coordination Office would like to announce the third regional policy brief for Central Asia, titled “Sustaining mobile pastoralists in the mountains of northern Pakistan”.
For centuries, landless mobile pastoralists have produced milk, meat, wool, maintained biodiversity, and conserved the soil in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northern Pakistan. But the provision of these goods and services is at risk as the pastoralists are …

The National Centre of Competence in Research NCCR North-South announces an International Conference on Research for Development (ICRD 2012) ‘Research for Global Transformation’ to be held in Bern, Switzerland, 20-22 August 2012
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