SWEDISH SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES NETWORK

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The following South Asia related project applications for Swedish Research Links (Asian–Swedish research partnership programme) were granted in November 2002. The projects are for three years (2003-05).

• Jan Pettersson, Dept of Agricultural Entomology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences , Uppsala.
Asian partner: Nimal Savitri Kumar:
Project name: Environmentally acceptable control of pests infesting vegetable plots in tea areas.
Grant: 600 000 SEK

• Anju Saxena, Dept of Linguistics, Uppsala University.
Asian partner: Udaya Narayana Singh
Project name: Digitalized documentation of Indian minority languages.
Grant: 540 000 SEK

• Rolando Zanzi, Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology ( Division of Chemical Reaction Engineering) of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
Asian partners: Jucai Sun,China, Anil Kumar Dubey, India, Z. A. Zainal, Malaysia
Project name: Integrated BIO-SOFC Technology.
Grant: 600 000 SEK

• Jan Lundqvist, Dept of Water and Environmental Studies, Linköping University.
Asian partner: A.Rajagopal
Project name: Water Resources, Livelihood Options and Multi-Stakeholder Dialogues in a River Basin Context.
Grant: 600 000 SEK

• Helena Martin, Dept of Woman and Child Health, Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm.
Asian partner: Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Project name: Evaluation of the relationship of folate and B12 deficiency during pregnancy on pregnancy outcomes, intrauterine growth retardation and newborn vascular reactivity in Pakistan.
Grant: 600 000 SEK

• Bo Leckner, Dept of Energy Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg.
Asian partner: Ajit Kumar Kolar
Project name: Biofuel conversion.
Grant: 600 000 SEK

• Thorvald Andersson, Applied Semiconductor Physics, Dept of Microelectronics and Nanoscience, Physics and Engineering Physics,
Chalmers University of Technology.
Asian partner: Kandatege Premarante
Project name: Nitride semiconductor heterostructures grown by MBE.
Grant: 500 000 SEK

• Bengt Sundén, Division of Heat Transfer, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University.
Asian partner: Sarit Kumar Das
Project name: Experimental and Numerical Simulation of The Dynamic Response of Plate Heat Exchangers.
Grant: 550 000 SEK

• Bengt Danielsson, Dept of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University.
Asian partner: Sunil Bhand
Project name: Validation of field-portable and high throughput biosensor techniques for environmental pesticide analysis.
Grant: 550 000 SEK

• Alia Ahmad, Dept of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University.
Asian partner: Sirimevan Colombage
Project name: Microfinance and Poverty Reduction in the Rural Sector: A Case Study of Sri Lanka.
Grant: 550 000 SEK

• Lars Jalmert, Dept of Education, Stockholm University.
Asian partner: G.I.C. Gunawardena
Project name: A Study of Child Rearing Practices Prevalent in Selected Communities in Sri Lanka and an Action Programme to Modity Differentiated Gender Role Socialization.
Grant: 225 000 SEK

• Lo Persson, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University.
Asian partner: Rentala Madhubala
Project name: Structure-based drug development against malaria and leishmaniasis.
Grant: 375 000 SEK

• Dag Lindgren, Dept of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences , Umeå.
Asian partner: Mohan Varghese
Project name: Estimation of gene diversity and drift pattern in natural populations and plantations of four south Indian forest tree species.
Grant: 375 000 SEK

• Per Christer Odén, Dept of Silviculture, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå.
Asian partner: V. Sivakumar
Project name: Characterization of tropical and temperate forest seeds with reference to seed storage beehaviour.
Grant: 375 000 SEK

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