Small grants
Within the School for Disaster Geo-Information Management some small grants may be requested for the presentation of research work in International conferences. Requests can be done by researchers that have carried out their research in the framework of a research project related to the School for Disaster Geo-Information Management. This can be MSc research, components of a PhD research or as visiting scientists. Individual grants are given only to match other funding, and are ment to provide support in travel, accommodation costs or conference registration.
A motivated request for funding should be send to the DGIM School Director and Marketing Officer DGIM.
Travel grants 2008
The following ITC students were given a travel grant to present their research work in an international conference:
- Travel costs support to Mr. Laban Maiyo, MSc Student GEM to present a paper at the conference "Cartography and geoinformatics for early warning and emergency management: Towards better solutions", Prague, January 19-22, 2009, a conference in the JBGIS Gi4DM series, started in Delft. Amount of support: € 588.
- Travel and conference fee support to PhD student Mrs. Waew Ruamporn Moonjun from LDD, Thailand, to present her paper titled "Application of artificial neural network and decision tree in a GIS-based predictive soil mapping in sloping area: A case study of Hoi Num Rin sub-watershed, Thailand" at the IUSS 3rd Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping, on September 30, 2008. Amount of support: € 1500.
- Tuition waver for ITC-alumnus and RULER network assistant Mr. Eduardo Enrique Lira Prera from Guatemala, to enable him to participate in the ITC-offered Distance Education course Spatial Decision Support Systems. Amount of support: € 500.
- Travel costs support to Mr. Tawee Chaipimonplin, Thailand, to present his study titled "Use of neural network to predict flooding in Chiang Mai, Thailand" at the AOGS 2008 Symposoium in Korea, June 17 to 19, 2008. Amount of support: € 600.
- Contribution to printing costs of a research paper by Mr. Manatsa, Zimbabwe, published in the journal "Theoretical and Applied Climatology", article TAC92/1-2, authors Manatsa et al., UNEDRA participant. Amount of support: € 748.
ProVention Consortium
Small research grants are also offered by the ProVention Consortium, an international network of partners focused at reducing disaster risks in developing countries. Students and young professionals from developing countries are invited to propose creative projects and innovative ideas for support.
For more info on the Pro Vention Research and Action grants visit www.proventionconsortium.org/research_and_action_grants.