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Climate-Smart Cocoa Agroforestry Research in Ghana

Research project The cocoa industry is one of the main pillars of the economies of several countries providing livelihoods for over 50 million people. Climate change is currently the most important threat to cocoa production in Ghana. The result has been strong dryin ... Midterm report Status of objectives, outputs and PhDs Literature reviews and study methodologies under objectives 1, 2, 3 and 4 completed. Under objective 1,and 3, automatic weather monitors, sap flow sensors, data loggers, dendrometers, field ...

Period: 2020-01-2 to 2024-12-31 Countries: Ghana Lead institution: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana Partner institutions: Aarhus University (AU), Denmark University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), Ghana Project code: 19-11-GHA Total grant: 11,719,990 DKK

HEALTHYNSECT Insect farming for health and livelihood

Research project Insects are recognized as some of the most promising alternative food sources that can shape future sustainable food systems by providing high-quality animal protein and nutrients with lower environmental impacts than conventional livestock. Producti ... Midterm report The HEALTHYNSECT consortium was able to initiate the work in May 2020 despite the COVID19 outbreak affecting all countries and all partners involved. The project's start was postponed from April to May, 2020, and the project consort ...

Period: 2020-04-1 to 2024-12-31 Countries: Ghana Kenya Uganda Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST), Kenya Makerere University Business School (MUBS), Uganda University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR), Ghana Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Kenya Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), Kenya Project code: 19-08-KU Total grant: 11,998,970 DKK

Membrane crystallization for water and mineral recovery

Research project Sufficient water supply in South Africa is a huge problem and together with future risk of insufficient supply of other resources such as minerals, it emphasizes on improved research and development within these areas. This project has three main ... Midterm report Sufficient water supply in South Africa is a huge problem and together with future risk of insufficient supply of other resources such as minerals, it emphasizes on improved research and development within these areas. During the fi ...

Period: 2021-03-1 to 2024-12-31 Countries: South Africa Lead institution: Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark Partner institutions: University of Witwatersrand (WITS), South Africa Ekurhuleni Water Care Company (ERWAT), South Africa Grundfos Holding A/S, Denmark Jasper Solar Farm, South Africa Project code: 20-M01AAU Total grant: 4,961,116 DKK

Optimizing Brazil Health Care with telemedicine (BRAHIT)

Research project In BRAHIT we test in a pragmatic clinical trial, the hypothesis that a novel collaboration model across health sectors in Brazil can improve the quality of the management of patients with heart failure. Health resources are scarce in Brazil, posin ... Midterm report The main objective is to provide state-of-the-art quality of care to vulnerable patients with heart failure (HF), in primary care (PC), with remote support from cardiologists. Rearding outputs, there has been conducted a pilot stud ...

Period: 2019-03-1 to 2024-12-31 Countries: Brazil Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Ministry of Health, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia, Brazil Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP), Brazil Region Hovedstaden, Bispebjerg Hospital, Denmark Project code: 18-M03-KU Total grant: 4,848,030 DKK

Emerging Epidemics: Improving Preparedness in Burkina Faso

Research project The recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa showed how rapidly an infectious disease can spread within and across borders. The overall ambition of this project is to identify key elements for a ‘smart foresighting system’ for early detection of infectio ... Midterm report The Covid-19 pandemic and the fragile security situation in Burkina Faso present challenges as well as opportunities for the "EMERGENT EPIDEMIC: Improving Preparedness in Burkina Faso" project. The challenges (travel- and fieldwork ...

Period: 2018-08-1 to 2024-12-31 Countries: Burkina Faso Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS), Burkina Faso University of Ouagadougou (OU), Burkina Faso Project code: 17-06-KU Total grant: 9,997,249 DKK

Towards a just energy transition in Indonesia (JUSTIN)

Research project The overall objective of the project is to contribute to promote a just transition in the energy sector of emerging economies, including sustainable development of local communities and local industries. This in turn will contribute to a cleaner envi ...

Period: 2022-04-1 to 2024-12-31 Countries: Indonesia Lead institution: Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark Partner institutions: Universitas Indonesia (UI), Indonesia Universitas Prasetiya Mulya, Indonesia Dala Institute, Indonesia University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa PT PLN (Persero), Indonesia Indonesia Renewable Energy Society (IRES), Indonesia Wind Denmark Project code: 21-M05-DTU Total grant: 4,999,042 DKK

Renewable Energy based Minigrid Clusters in Ethiopia-REMCE

Research project According to recent studies, around 55% of 110 million inhabitants of Ethiopia (especially in rural areas) have no access to electricity. In addition, the electrified regions of the country, which are mainly based on hydroelectric power plants, are s ...

Period: 2021-05-1 to 2024-12-31 Countries: Ethiopia Lead institution: Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark Partner institutions: Hawassa University (HU), Ethiopia Ministry of Water, Irrigation, and Energy (MoWIE), Ethiopia Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU), Ethiopia Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP), Ethiopia Kenergy ApS. (KEN), Denmark Gomspace A/S (GOM), Denmark Project code: 20-M04AAU Total grant: 4,999,804 DKK

Building Resilience to Climate Change in Ethiopia

Research project This project is a collaborative research project between the Development Economics Research Group and the Ethiopian Development Research Institute. It will compare and evaluate the drivers of resilience to climate change examining actions taken at th ... Midterm report: The project is progressing according to plan in terms of research outputs, capacity building, and outreach. Two PhD students are enrolled under the project, and they are advancing in their studies at the University of Addis Abeb ...

Period: 2019-04-1 to 2024-12-31 Countries: Ethiopia Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI), Ethiopia Project code: 18-07-KU Total grant: 11,077,028 DKK

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