A pilot plant has been setup as part of RAFSOL which is a research program managed by the national research agency (ANR).
DeNDRoN is now in its sixth year and has established a geographically widespread network of research support staff and research leadership managed by a central coordinating centre.
We have experimented in half a dozen cases using the student run KE model having a distributed, virtual team organization (project teams, management team, research team), managed by the students at the university and consisting of second to fourth year students from three different universities (classic university, university of technology, and a business school).
Field research was managed by the Project Manager from CMDN and was jointly carried out by field researcher as well as other local field personnel.
In Sabangau forest one fire has already burned over 500 hectares and is threatening the renowned research station managed by the Centre for International Cooperation in Sustainable Management of Tropical Peatland (CIMTROP) at the University of Palangka Raya, according to OuTrop director of conservation, Simon Husson.
This is exemplified in Establish Permissions (Fig. 1, inset) where, for instance, permissions for human subjects research is managed by a single institution-wide Institutional Review Board and must be obtained prior to performing research, whereas a single department may regulate permission to publish the experimental findings.
A research project managed by Sean Demack and fellow statisticians at Sheffield Hallam University is attempting to tease out the effects of gender, ethnicity and social class based on the exam results of more than 65,000 16-year-olds.
This week, the Communist Party's antigraft watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, announced that it had uncovered fraud in research grants managed by China's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and at prestigious Fudan University in Shanghai.
Another interesting aspect of working for the EC is the fact that the research programmes managed by the EC are not just European: 32 countries are associated to them, and there are bilateral agreements with several countries (the United States, China, Argentina, India, etc).
The institute will expand on UCLA's International Research and Training Center, which has already served 1,500 scholars from 15 countries, and a research station managed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
