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Baltic applications to NOVA PhD courses
2005-07-12

The Nordic Research Board (NordForsk) has recently announced results of application to NOVA PhD courses. Seven NOVA courses will be provided with funds to cover participation costs of Baltic PhD students and one course has been granted earlier for participation of 3 Baltic students (cf. Table).

Table. Results of Baltic and Russian PhD student applications to NOVA PhD courses due to NordForsk deadline June 1, 2005.

Topic and course title

Course location

Number of PhD students:
applied/accepted&granted

EPMU

LLU

LVA

LZUU

Russia

Total

 

Animal nutrition - Digestion and metabolism in the dairy cow from a modelling perspective

Sweden

2/2

-

-

-

1/1

3/3

100%

Agricultural Economics - Applied Contract Theory

Denmark

-

2/2

-

2/2

-

4/4

100%

Forestry - Ecology and management of waterfowl

Finland

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Forest Microbiology - Soil-plant-microbe interaction: Fundamentals & Applications

Sweden

-

-

-

-

1/1

1/-

0%

Informatics in Agriculture - Likelihood-based inference for hierarchical/mixed statistical models *

Denmark

4/1

2/1

2/-

2/1

-

10/3

30%

Agroecology and organic farming - Globalisation: Threat or Possibility for Organic Agriculture

Denmark

1/1

2/2

1/1

3/3

2/2

9/9

100%

Reproduction - Reproductive toxicology with emphasis on persistent endocrine disrupting chemicals in the environment

Norway

-

3/3

-

-

-

3/3

100%

Ethology - The ontogeny of behaviour *

Norway

1/1

-

-

-

-

1/1

100%

Total per university:

8/5

9/8

3/1

7/6

4/4

 

 

63%

89%

33%

86%

100%

 

Total from BOVA:

31/23

74%

* - Granted earlier.

Every student accepted to the courses was granted by NordForsk for participation. However, not every willing was able get the place at the course due to limited number of seats in most popular courses and sometimes not sufficient background to meet contents of the course was an obstacle.

 

Prepared at BOVA secretariat
Alvidas �arlauskas
 
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