PAEPARD invites innovative partnerships to apply for support

06 Jun 2011

The Platform for African-European Partnership on Agricultural Research for Development (PAEPARD) supports the establishment of innovative partnerships of African and European stakeholders that engage in agricultural innovation and collaborative research to address shared challenges and opportunities of the partners involved. Aspiring partnerships are hereby invited to apply for support to establish their partnership and formulate collaborative ARD proposals. Successful partnerships established through this process will benefit from support from PAEPARD through the training and coaching of their innovation-facilitators. The latter will help facilitate and coordinate the partnership. Deadlines

Applications should be received at the address indicated in the application form no later than 15th July 2011
Applicants will be informed of the result of their application on 15th September 2011
Inception workshops will be planned in consultation with the successful partnerships and are expected to take place in Mid October

Application form Applicants should use the application form hereunder: • Application form Background documents • Profile of an agricultural innovator • Refining the concept of broker • GUIDELINES FOR INNOVATIVE AFRICAN-EUROPEAN INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT IN SUBSAHARAN AFRICAN • PAEPARD partnerships and capacity building actions and philosophy Read more.

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