Front Page Article: SPLASH reviews national programmes on water research for developing countries
An important objective of the SPLASH Era-net (European Union Water Initiative European Research Area Network) is to exchange knowledge between different European partner research initiatives and to facilitate collaboration between them. As part of this, SPLASH recently surveyed programmes relating to water research for developing countries, funded or co-funded by the national governments of the 11 SPLASH partner countries. This provided an analysis of thematic and geographic research areas covered, capacity development, funding issues, programme development, dissemination activities, and the potential for joint activities.
While the aims, objectives and focus areas vary across the programmes surveyed, there is a good spread of support across the thematic areas, and all partner countries are involved in the Mekong region and in Africa, suggesting that these offer the greatest potential benefits for future collaboration.
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