Sentences with phrase «fund field projects»

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Chinese foreign direct investment in Europe has soared from under $ 1 billion in 2008 to $ 35 billion in 2016.2 Examples of Chinese economic activities include: acquisitions of European companies in a variety of strategic fields, most notably in the technology sector; sustained investment into existing critical infrastructure; and the provision of funding for new infrastructure projects.

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 Park District is hoping to buy 32 acres near 151st Street and Menard Avenue for athletic fields and a recreation facility if voters agree to fund the $ 1.8 million purchase and project.

OAK FOREST — The Park District is hoping to buy 32 acres near 151st Street and Menard Avenue for athletic fields and a recreation facility if voters agree to fund the $ 1.8 million purchase and project.

-- «Serious questions «about the benefit to the city of moving the northbound lanes of Lake Shore Drive to the west side of Soldier Field, especially if the $ 40 million project diverts state and federal road funds that could have been used elsewhere in the city;

Because the Park District of Oak Park also could use the turf field, Jasculca said the school district reached out to park district leaders to see if there is any interest in contributing funds to the project.

Stonyfield will not only be contributing funds to support AZA SAFE field work but is aiming to drive kids and their families to see animals and conservation projects first hand at zoos, aquariums, and on the ground where the research is happening.

The funds were left from the district's 1992 capital projects bond originally used to build the Jack A. Claes Pavilion and new athletic fields.

As a non-profit preschool, we have to raise the money needed to fund classroom enrichment projects, safety programs, field trips and other activities throughout the year.

With the help of YouGov and as part of an ESRC - funded project on UK party membership in the twenty - first century, we (Professor Tim Bale and Dr Monica Poletti (Queen Mary University of London) and Professor Paul Webb (University of Sussex)-RRB- have conducted a new survey of Labour's new members, fielded just after the May 2016 local, devolved and mayoral elections.

Also at 10 a.m., NYC Councilman Andy King and NYCHA Chairwoman and CEO Shola Olatoye, joined by state Sen. Ruth Hassell - Thompson, lead a tour of the authority's Boston Secor Houses, as King discusses nearly $ 1.5 million in funding for projects to install security cameras and renovate the public housing development's senior center and track and field; 3475 Bivona St., the Bronx.

Other Westchester Municipalities having School Board And 2018 - 2019 Votes include The Peekskill City School District (2 seats up), Greenburgh Central School District, New Rochelle Public Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons Street.)

While there are undoubtedly many projects funded with UK aid that bring genuine and much - needed benefit to people living on the lowest incomes in the world, there's also a trend in ones that actually help tilt an already uneven playing field further in favour of the rich, entrenching inequality and corporate power.

Parks also cut the ribbon on the $ 1 million restoration — funded by the City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio — of the fields and courts at Dugan Playground, 280 Mill Rd.. The project has been in the works since 2013.

He has been a lifelong volunteer for causes he believes in, including conducting climate change science field research with the Harvard Department of Forestry in Southern Africa, working on get - out - the - vote efforts for John Kerry, Barack Obama and Zephyr Teachout, building agricultural databases for USAID funded international projects all over the world, and providing technical assistance to schools in Senegal (for which he was awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award by the Obama administration).

fund excellent research projects not fully supported from other sources, including those of field - defining or transformative potential and deploying interdisciplinary and thematic approaches

The project will be funded with $ 5.69 million from Oddo, $ 650,000 from Matteo and $ 3 million from a FEMA grant originally slated for Timoshenko Field in Midland Beach.

The funding will support TALL's Walker Project, an effort to transform Walker Field into the league's major fField into the league's major fieldfield.

Friends of Whitey Ford, a group dedicated to the field's upkeep and repairs, is also planning a handful of community outreach and fundraising events for the coming year to draw attention to to the park and raise funds for future projects, said Neil Herdan.

She also asked for $ 285,000 to upgrade the college's Women's Center, $ 475,000 to renovate York's chemistry labs, $ 315,000 for the school's geo - science monitoring project and funding for the second phase of the project to repair and build the college's soccer field, which is currently «unusable.»

Projects funded by the non-profit institute include research on dairy, field crops, apples, vegetables, berries and Christmas trees.

In this exploratory study funded by the National Science Foundation, Project 2061 has developed an outline for a Green Schools Energy Curriculum and gathered feedback from the field on the feasibility of such an approach and what it would take to implement it.

The project was funded by the Center for Brain Activity Mapping (CBAM) at UC San Diego and brought together experts from multiple fields, including neurosurgeons, neuroscientists, electrical engineers, materials scientists and experts in systems integration.

The European Commission (EC) is currently funding several projects intended «to explore the potential in Europe to develop a very big scientific initiative in this particular field,» says Andrés Moya, head of the Spanish Cavanilles Institute for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology in Valencia.

The researchers» project, called Target Malaria, has attracted tens of millions of dollars in funding, and the scientists hope to conduct field trials in Africa as early as 2024.

Private funders such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in Seattle, Washington, and the Tata Trusts, a Mumbai - based charity, have spent tens of millions on gene - drive research, but this funding has been directed to specific projects or institutions; other government funders have not yet made large contributions to the field.

«Right now there are kind of monopolies running the field,» she says, referring to the large, established, well - funded labs that are responsible for most of the major ancient DNA projects.

The labs were «block - funded,» and staffers could work across fields and projects without fearing for their future security.

Their research was funded by the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) within the scope of the POPUP project which is aimed at developing novel materials and device structures suitable for competitive mass production processes and applications in the field of organic photovoltaics.

It will provide funding for 10 projects in five thematic fields (see box) over the next 5 years.

President Barack Obama on Friday signed a major new transportation funding bill that extensively reworks — and cuts — a little - known program that has paid for hundreds of field research projects over the last few decades.

As a result, the team has turned to other projects funded by outside groups, such as measuring methane emissions from natural gas fields in Utah (ClimateWire, Aug. 7).

The projects you have funded so far cover a wide range of fields.

An EU - funded research project («HumEn»), in which Lickert and his team are participating, shall provide further insights in the field of beta - cell replacement therapy.

The study is part of a three - year, $ 515,000 National Science Foundation - funded project between Kansas State University and Karen Johannesson at Tulane University that is titled «Collaborative Research: Chemical Hydrogeologic Investigations of Tungsten: Field, Laboratory, and Modeling Studies of an Emerging Environmental Contaminant.»

ANR provides funding for project - based research in all fields of science - for both basic and applied research - to public research organisations and universities, as well as to private companies (including SMEs).

My interest in research development began during my undergraduate studies when I received the opportunity to participate in a city - funded project, but working as a postdoctoral research scientist at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden is ultimately what led me to the field.

Projected funding for this field demonstration is $ 1.75 million during FY 2007 and $ 3 million in FY 2008.

This is all done to develop and expand clinical and laboratory expertise in medical genetics and to initiate and develop a broad - based infrastructure for industry funding of high - quality projects in the fields of medical genetics.

NPF raises and directs funds to support exemplary research projects in the field of pancreas disease

«The proteomics field is now entering a third generation phase where large - scale protein analysis will provide unique quantifiable data on a subcellular level «says one of the participants in the EU funded PROSPECTS project Dr. Emma Lundberg from the Science for Life Laboratory Stockholm.

The ERC - funded BlackHoleCam project aims to conduct GR tests in a strong - field regime using three different types of observations of Sgr A * and M87 with new - generation instruments.

Using the tools described on that page, you can get an overview of similar funded projects, experts in your field, their publications and grants, and study sections that reviewed their applications.

With NIH funding of the Human Connectome Project (http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org), the field of AAN connectomics is now expanding due to ultra-high resolution HARDI techniques for structural connectomic analyses and resting - state functional MRI (rs - fMRI) techniques for functional connectivity analyses.

The 2015 mid-term evaluation report of LABEX IAST resulted in a very positive assessment by the international jury: «This is a high - risk, high - potential project that can lead to transformative research in the long term, Intersection between economics, biology, psychology, and other fields, perfectly suited for funding by a public research agency.

English - composition students writing and submitting proposals to potential sponsors to fund supplies and a field trip for their social studies class project.

But this can only be successful with regular, reliable and sufficient funding: for research, for internationally coordinated project implementation, for the establishment and maintenance of common non-commercial media platforms for Peace, and above all for the practical peace education field work with children and educators worldwide.

Education Secretary Damian Hinds has announced a # 5 million fund to support more teachers to take a sabbatical, such as a year working in an industry relevant to their field, and a research project to introduce more flexible hours in the profession.

The groups represented at the expo included Alumni Relations, the Annual Fund, Career Services, the Field Experience Program, Gutman Library Research Services, Human Resources, the Achievement Gap Initiative, the Change Leadership Group, the Executive Leadership Program for Educators, Harvard Education Publishing Group, Harvard Family Research Project, the Office of School Partnerships, Programs in Professional Education, Project Zero, the Usable Knowledge website, and WIDE World.

A San Antonio native and lawyer, and the granddaughter and daughter of well - known lawyers there, Rico was asked to take over the George W. Brackenridge Foundation, a little - known foundation with modest assets that mostly funded small education projects, such as field trips and summer camps.