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Scholarships for Baltic and Russian students. By the end of January 2006 NordForsk who is the main donor for Baltic doctoral students has finished its reorganisations and renewed support via scholarships to doctoral courses. Right after NOVA course coordinators were approached and new application round was announced on the Baltic side by NOVA and BOVA secretariats. In result, 10 NOVA PhD courses are available for Baltic and Russian doctoral students for applications in February 2006. Nordic teachers from all approached courses kindly agreed to consider applicants from Baltic countries. Deadline for applications is set to February 20, 2006.

Applicants are kindly asked to follow the application procedure [http://www.bova-university.org/index.php?list=phd] on the BOVA website in order to secure smooth process. Everybody is welcome to consult BOVA secretariat [[email protected]]  if having any questions.

Courses in Baltic countries and NW Russia. NordForsk invites applications for funding for research training (Ph.D.) from institutions in the Nordic countries and three Baltic countries and North-Western Russia. The application should be prepared jointly by Nordic and Baltic countries. The research training courses should normally take place in the Baltic countries or North-Western Russia, and should be specialised intensive courses for doctoral students and young researchers. NOVA and BOVA secretariats considers this to be a unique opportunity for the NOVA-BOVA network and call Baltic universities to identify the most suitable areas and make proposal for doctoral courses in the Baltic countries. Secretariats are ready to assist in finding suitable partners. The action should be taken without a delay as the deadline for applications is set to April 3, 2006.

Table. List of the courses open for Baltic PhD students - February 2006

Topic and course title	Course place	Course period
Bioremediation of boreal soil	Viikki Biocenter, University of Helsinki	June 5-15, 2006
Reproductive management in the pig	The Saari Unit University of Helsinki Faculty of Veterinary Medicine	June 12-18, 2006
Insect pollinators and pollination ecology	Tv�rminne Zoological Station, University of Helsinki, Finland	September 9-16, 2006
Potential of Organic Farming to contribute to Rural Development in Europe	Middelfart, Denmark	May 28 - June 2, 2006
Genomics and plant breeding	Mustiala, Finland	June 3-9, 2006
Post graduate course on Veterinary Epidemiology, Part 2(2)	Congress hotel Siikaranta, Espoo, Finland	June 1 - 10, 2006
Microscopy in Plant Biology Research	SLU, Alnarp, Sweden & KVL, Copenhagen, Denmark	October 1-7, 2006
Object Oriented Modelling and Software Development with Agricultural Applications	Tune Landboskole, Grevevej 20, DK-2670 Greve, Denmark	August 13-24, 2006
Linear models in animal breeding	Honne hotell og konferansesenter AS, http://www.honne.no/	June 11-23, 2006

Do not miss the deadline for applications!
February 20 is the last day when Baltic and Russian students can submit their applications to Nordic course organisers and BOVA secretariat. Go to http://www.bova-university.org/index.php?list=phd if willing to apply.

Prepared at BOVA secretariat
Alvidas Sarlauskas

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