Sentences with phrase «countries in research funding»

A 2004 survey by the Italian National Research Council in Rome found that Italy ranked second to last of 22 countries in research funding and personnel.

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New research from Female Founders Fund confirms a trend that first popped up about six months ago: Relative to women entrepreneurs raising money in other parts of the country, women in New York are killing it.

David F. Arons, CEO of the National Brain Tumor Society, said in a statement that the country should be «doubling down on biomedical research funding, not pulling back,» according to Bloomberg.

The common denominator from this research is that in every country, culture and sector female crowdfunders are out performing male crowdfunders in achieving their funding goals.

Later in the session another odd moment came when he was being asked about his relationship with Saint Petersburg University in Russia — where he confirmed he had given talks and workshops, after traveling to the country with friends and proactively getting in touch with the university «to say hi» — and specifically about some Russian government - funded research being conducted by researchers there into cyberbullying.

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

Improved postharvest practices: A recent research study undertaken by WFLO with funding by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provides an great assortment of data on the results of 12 past projects, postharvest losses % for 26 crops, a description of the value chain for 30 crops in 4 countries (Rwanda, Benin, Ghana and India) and 21 field trials of postharvest technologies suitable for helping small farmers reduce losses and improve their incomes.

The Crawford Fund Scholar Program forms part of our efforts to encourage young Australians to engage in international research, development and education for the benefit of developing countries and Australia.

The Crawford Fund conference provided an excellent opportunity for attendees to gain a broader picture of food loss and waste research in developing countries and promoted collaboration through multiple networking sessions which will be invaluable in the future.

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

As the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom (PBIC) initiative enters its third round of funding, the founding partners — NEA HIN, the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), School Nutrition Foundation (SNF), and the National Association of Elementary School Principals Foundation (NAESPF)-- are working to increase access to school breakfast for students around the country.

Three ground - breaking pieces of research funded by the Gates Foundation highlight the practical, emotional and cultural barriers that still stand in the way of women breastfeeding and underline the importance of breastfeeding in improving health, saving lives and reducing costs in every country in the world, rich or poor.

ESS, whose fieldwork in the UK has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), has collected data from more than 250,000 interviews in 30 countries over the last decade on a wide range of topics that tap into key issues facing contemporary Europe.

The ESS has received funding from the EC's Framework programmes, from the European Science Foundation, and from national funding councils in participating countries (Economic and Social Research Council ESRC in the UK).

The reliance on rudimentary and rain - fed agriculture, Mr Greenstreet said, had not helped the country and advocated massive investment in the country's research institutions, and added that because most of the research institutions were donor - funded, they were promoting genetically modified crops in Ghana instead of paying attention to local crops.

Last year the ESRC spent # 212 million on research and training to support over 5,700 researchers and students, funding excellent independent social science research in universities and research institutions across the UK and with 62 countries around the world.

The study, which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), also found that staying out late without telling your parents is unrelated to factors such as family income, the number of children in the family or being in a step - family, but is related to the quality of the emotional relationship the child has with their parents and whether they live in a city or in the country.

Since its founding in 1982, Komen has funded more than $ 800 million in research and provided more than $ 1.6 billion in funding to screening, education, treatment and psychosocial support programs serving millions of people in more than 30 countries worldwide.

The report covers about 100 funding schemes offered by Science Europe member organizations in 23 European countries and by the European Commission, the European Research Council, and the European Molecular Biology Organization.

Taxpayers fund the government agencies that in turn fund much of the academic research in this country.

The report highlights many important problems that countries like the United Kingdom have been focusing on to provide better support to early - career researchers, such as «the multi-facetted role of the early career researcher and the need for professional development in areas beyond research such as people management and winning funding,» writes Ellen Pearce, director of Vitae, a U.K. organization that promotes the professional development of early - career researchers, in an email to Science Careers.

NASA, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), and other science funding agencies are expanding adventurous undergraduate research opportunities in the United States and other countries in an effort to encourage students to choose careers in science and engineering.

In 1968, the Research Councils founded the Graduate Schools Programme, which sends second - and third - year graduate students funded by the councils to a conference center in another part of the country for a solid week of intensive game - playinIn 1968, the Research Councils founded the Graduate Schools Programme, which sends second - and third - year graduate students funded by the councils to a conference center in another part of the country for a solid week of intensive game - playinin another part of the country for a solid week of intensive game - playing.

«If the Senate bill in its final form does not allow companies to use international offsets to achieve their targets, then the U.S. as a source of funding for REDD would die,» said Daniel Nepstad, a senior scientist with the Woods Hole Research Center, which is a member of Hurowitz's Tropical Forest and Climate Coalition, meaning other countries might have to fill that gap with their own funding and offset needs.

However, the FP is not primarily devoted to basic research and, furthermore, the great majority (95 %) of the funding available for research in Europe is nationally based within the research agencies of the various countries.

In science news around the world, NASA scientists spot evidence for ice volcanoes on the surface of Pluto, transmission of the Ebola virus comes to an end in Sierra Leone, Canada's new minister of innovation, science, and economic development reinstates the country's long - form census and announces that government scientists are free again to speak to the media, the United Kingdom's House of Commons Science and Technology Committee calls for a strategy to increase government research funding, and morIn science news around the world, NASA scientists spot evidence for ice volcanoes on the surface of Pluto, transmission of the Ebola virus comes to an end in Sierra Leone, Canada's new minister of innovation, science, and economic development reinstates the country's long - form census and announces that government scientists are free again to speak to the media, the United Kingdom's House of Commons Science and Technology Committee calls for a strategy to increase government research funding, and morin Sierra Leone, Canada's new minister of innovation, science, and economic development reinstates the country's long - form census and announces that government scientists are free again to speak to the media, the United Kingdom's House of Commons Science and Technology Committee calls for a strategy to increase government research funding, and more.

Things started to change when, in 2005, the newly created French National Research Agency introduced short term, competitive research funding, in line with most other coResearch Agency introduced short term, competitive research funding, in line with most other coresearch funding, in line with most other countries.

In their paper published online in Annals of Internal Medicine, the team led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Yale School of Public Health describes how a 33 percent cutback in funds earmarked for HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and research in recent budget proposals would only save $ 900 per year of life lost in the countries of South Africa and Côte d'IvoirIn their paper published online in Annals of Internal Medicine, the team led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Yale School of Public Health describes how a 33 percent cutback in funds earmarked for HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and research in recent budget proposals would only save $ 900 per year of life lost in the countries of South Africa and Côte d'Ivoirin Annals of Internal Medicine, the team led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Yale School of Public Health describes how a 33 percent cutback in funds earmarked for HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and research in recent budget proposals would only save $ 900 per year of life lost in the countries of South Africa and Côte d'Ivoirin funds earmarked for HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and research in recent budget proposals would only save $ 900 per year of life lost in the countries of South Africa and Côte d'Ivoirin recent budget proposals would only save $ 900 per year of life lost in the countries of South Africa and Côte d'Ivoirin the countries of South Africa and Côte d'Ivoire.

Participants also noted that staff scientists are much more common at research institutes in other countries, such as Germany's Max Planck Institutes, where grants to institutions rather than to individual investigators are a common funding mechanism.

These tasks fall in the hands of the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the country's main research funding agency — a cross between the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States.

As part of the «National centre of Competence in Research — NCCR LIVES» funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) examined data from more than 24,000 people aged 50 to 96 living in 14 European countries.

NIH launched the CTSA program in 2006 to fund clinical and translational research hubs at institutions around the country, which are individually known as CTSAs.

We need to adopt new ideas and system reforms to cater to the demands of this evolving world, especially in a country like Japan where we experience many dynamic changes and challenges,» states Igarashi, who emphasizes the importance of maintaining R&D and science education funding to make research careers attractive to young clinicians and scientists in Japan and around the world.

Along similar lines, the umbrella organization for the UK's research councils — RCUK — opened an office in Beijing in October 2007, with a view to enabling the research councils to offer UK - China funding opportunities (ideally in conjunction with Chinese funding agencies) and make it easier for individual researchers to develop contacts with key partners in other countries, according to the office director, Chris Godwin.

The Asian Scholarship Foundation (ASF), a not - for - profit organization funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation, funds research by young and middle - level scholars in the field of Asian studies — which includes some social sciences — as well as work involving travel to other Asian countries.

So how are these huge shifts in the research firmament — multidisciplinarity, translational research, and commercialization — affecting one of the largest funders of basic biomedical science in the country, Cancer Reseresearch firmament — multidisciplinarity, translational research, and commercialization — affecting one of the largest funders of basic biomedical science in the country, Cancer Reseresearch, and commercialization — affecting one of the largest funders of basic biomedical science in the country, Cancer ResearchResearch UK?

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

For academics who desire employment on this diverse and captivating continent, it is important to remember that while many aspects of European science are the same no matter which country you are in (for example, all EU scholars can apply for funds from the European Research Council [ERC]-RRB-, there are also numerous differences that exist between the members states and their higher education systems.

The German government has boosted funding for new institutes such as the German Biomass Research Center (DBFZ) in Leipzig, as well as existing organisations such as the Berlin - based Helmholtz Association, which operates 18 research centres across the Research Center (DBFZ) in Leipzig, as well as existing organisations such as the Berlin - based Helmholtz Association, which operates 18 research centres across the research centres across the country.

The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel recommends that the country's neutrino research should take priority in receiving funding

Are funds available to do ag research in developing countries?

«What is a nuisance for rich - country researchers (constant emails) is a major corruption for developing - country science — a corruption of the legitimate and vital open - access publishing model and a corruption of the vast funds, much of which are public, invested in global health research.

«This is funding that is sorely needed... by researchers who, in many countries, are finding national science budgets squeezed and little money available for pan-European collaboration,» research commissioner Máire Geoghegan - Quinn told reporters here today.

With large discrepancies in the levels of research funding available in different countries, moving abroad may make it easier to find the resources you need to carry out your work, despite research - funding restrictions.

This set the stage for a relatively restrictive environment for embryonic (although not adult) stem cell research in the United States relative to some other countries — the National Institutes of Health currently funds between about $ 600 miilion to $ 700 million a year in stem cell research.

Whether Kosovo's future funding will exceed its contribution as an associated country is difficult to say, a commission official says; that depends in part on how much Kosovo invests in research and innovation itself.

With the second phase of Brexit negotiations approaching, scientists in the United Kingdom are urging their government to clarify its position on funding agreements and migration of research talent after the country separates from the European Union in March 2019.

The organization funds postdoctoral research that «promotes molecular biology studies in Europe,» and prefers that fellows move between member countries.

As a result, said Cracraft, a large part of the $ 3 billion annual fund must go towards training scientists, developing collections and databases for reference, and creating research facilities in these countries.

BRUSSELS — The European Commission wants to allow Kosovo to take greater part in E.U. research funding programs after the country signed a reconciliatory deal with Serbia last week.