SWEDISH SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES NETWORK

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Sida grants to South Asia related projects in October 2010:

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sida, supports Swedish developing country research. The aim is to establish and maintain a knowledge base of relevance to aid and development issues, plus capacity for developing country research in Sweden. Individual researchers or groups of researchers working at universities/colleges or other research institutions in Sweden have been able to apply for a grant. Swedish citizens working at the Scandinavian Institute for Asian Studies (Nordiska Asieninstitutet, NIAS) in Copenhagen have also had the opportunity. More information.

On 6 October 2010, grants were distributed to a large number of projects (see the full list, as a pdf-file), out of which several were related to South Asia.

Gothenburg University:

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Biomedicine at Sahlgrenska Academy
Researcher: Dr. Matilda Nicklasson
Research Project: Transmission, infection patterns, and antibiotic resistance profiles of enterotoxigenic
                             Escherichia coli (ETEC) in Asia, Africa and Latin America
Area: Bangladesh and rest of third world
Funding: SEK 1 m for two years (2011-12)
More information on the project.

Karolinska Institutet Medical University, Stockholm

Division of Global health (IHCAR)
Researcher: Prof. Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg
Research Project: Antibiotic resistance a global challenge – contextualized interventions to improve
                             infection control and antibiotic management in Vietnam and India
Area: India and Vietnam
Funding: SEK 2.7 m for three years (2011-13)

Division of Metals & Health, Institute of Environmental Medicine
Researcher: Prof. Marie Vahter
Research Project: Exposure to environmental pollutants in susceptible population groups and sustainable
                             public health development in rural Bangladesh
Area: Bangladesh
Funding: SEK 3 m for three years (2011-13)

Linköping University

Department of Water and Environmental Studies
Researcher: Associate Professor Julie Wilk, Dr. Anna Jonsson and Dr. Maria Rydhagen
Research Project: Designing climate-smart water adaptation strategies for sustainable urban development.
                             A study of Cochahamba, Phnom Penh and Kota
Area: India, Bolivia and Cambodia
Funding: SEK 2.7 m for three years (2011-13)
More information on the project

Lund University

Department of Biotechnology
Researchers: Prof. Bo Mattiasson
Research Project: Treatment of Virus-Polluted Water
Area: India
Funding: SEK 2.7 m for three years (2011-13)

Department of Biotechnology
Researchers: Prof. Rajni Hatti-Kaul
Research Project: Sustainable production of bioenergy from agriculture residues – avoiding competition
                             with food availability in developing countries
Area: Sri Lanka and Vietnam
Funding: SEK 2.7 m for three years (2011-13)
More information about Prof. Hatti-Kaul’s project

Centre for Gender Studies
Researchers: Associate Professor Helle Rydström
Research Project: Recognition and Homosexuality: The Socio-Cultural Status of Same-Sex Relations
                             in India and Vietnam
Area: India and Vietnam
Funding: SEK 3.3 m for three years (2011-13)

Human Ecology Division
Researchers: Dr. Pernille Gooch
Research Project: Climate Change, Water & Rural Livelihoods: Assessing Socioeconomic Vulnerability
                             & Potential Adaptive Strategies in Eastern Himalayan Region of India
Area: India
Funding: SEK 1.5 m for three years (2011-13)
More information about Dr. Gooch’s project, that was preceded by a SASNET planning grant in 2009

Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS)
Researchers: Associate Professor Stefan Anderberg
Research Project: Electronic waste recycling in developing countries - How to make globalization
                             more compatible with sustainable development?
Area: India
Funding: SEK 200 000 for one year (2011)

Division of Water Resources Engineering
Researchers: Prof. Magnus Larsson
Research Project: Long-term Coastal Evolution: Modeling and Managing Coastal Areas in Developing Countries with special regard to Climate Change
Area: Sri Lanka
Funding: SEK 3.3 m for three years (2011-13)

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala

Department of Food Science
Researcher: Prof. Paresh Dutta
Research Project: Development of Seabuckthorn as an effective crop for ecological and economic
                             sustainability of marginal farmers in sub-Himalaya, India
Area: India
Funding: SEK 1.29 m for three years (2011-13)

Uppsala University

Department of Peace and Conflict Research
Researcher: Prof. Ashok Swain
Research Project: Changing Parameters for Hydropolitics in Light of Global Climate Change:
                             The Governance of Transboundary Waters to meet the Water Crisis
Area: India
Funding: SEK 2.7 m for three years (2011-13)
More information about the project.

Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development (CSD)
Researcher: The project involves Prof. Ashok Swain, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research
Research Project:Sustainable State-Building? – Assessing Energy Development Projects in Kosovo and Nepal
Area: Nepal and Kosovo
Funding: SEK 3 m for three years (2011-13)
More information about the project.