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SEAMEO BIOTROP Annual Report FY 2014-2015
The Centre’s vision, mission and goals guide its research and development, capacity building, community development, information exchange and general administration activities and services within its two program thrusts, namely: Tropical Biology for Community Welfare and Tropical Biology for Environmental Integrity. The Centre’s accomplishments in FY 2014/2015 are summarized under the following key result areas:
REGIONAL LEADERSHIP
The Centre completed 23 research projects and one action research/community-based project through SEAMEO BIOTROP Youth Environmental Outreach (YEO) Grants Program during the first half of the fiscal year in review. Fifteen of these completed research projects were conducted by the Centre’s researchers and partner agencies, six by PhD Thesis Support Program grantees and two by Joint Research Program grantees. For the second half of the fiscal year in review, the Centre also started implementing 27 more research projects i.e., 19 by the Centre’s researchers, four by PhD thesis support grantees, one by Joint Research Program grantees and three YEO Program grantees. The Joint Research Program grantees involved researchers from Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
The Centre started implementing, as the coordinating institution, a two-year project billed “Establishing a Network of Research Excellence for Mine Reclamation in Southeast Asia”. The project is being funded by the Global Innovation Initiative (GII) and the British Council and involves seven universities from Indonesia, United Kingdom and United States of America, and one private mining company in Indonesia.
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