Cooperation India (DBT)- The Netherlands - Climate Smart Agriculture Webinar Monday 9 March 2020 - NWO
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Cooperation India (DBT)- The Netherlands Climate Smart Agriculture Webinar Monday 9 March 2020
Bilateral collaboration
India-The Netherlands
• NWO and DBT aim to stimulate long term research collaboration between their two countries by
funding joint research;
• To strengthen the international position and global impact of their research;
• Funding is provided for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary consortia of Indian and Dutch research
groups and stakeholder partners, for high quality research that has the potential for societal and
scientific impact;
• Strategic knowledge and innovation agendas through a jointly agreed theme based annual call for
proposals;
• Funded research projects should be in alignment with national research agendas, as well as
international initiatives such as the UN’s SDGs;
• To build bridges between different actors in the knowledge chain, fundamental and applied research,
and scientific disciplines.
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Aim of the call
• To address societal challenges that are global in nature and increase the societal relevance of
research;
• To enhance and strengthen sustainable research collaboration;
• To bring together partners in society to co-develop the knowledge needed to support
decision-makers and contribute to societal change;
• To build and connect scientific knowledge and innovative solutions to increase the (societal)
impact of research;
• To explore new development pathways; and
• To find new ways to accelerate transitions towards sustainable development.
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Thematic focus: Climate Smart Agriculture
Climate Smart Agriculture should aim at:
• Sustainable increase in productivity (higher yields with less input) and increased resilience
(adaptation);
• Reduction of greenhouse gases (mitigation);
• Enhanced food security and development;
• Mitigation of adverse effects on ecosystems and biodiversity.
Focus areas:
• Genetics and breeding of plants to increase resilience to climate change
• Pests and diseases linked to climate and posing significant risks
• Adaptive management of water and soil resources
• Integrated approach
• Translation of research to inform policies
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General requirements
• NWO and DBT aim to fund 2 projects
• Max €700,000 from NWO, max Rs. 5.5 Crores from DBT
• Consortia should consist of
• a Dutch and Indian Principal investigator (PI)
• a co-applicant from at least one other Dutch institution than the Principal Investigator
• a co-applicant from at least one other Indian institution than the Principal Investigator
• A public and/or private practitioner partner
• Deadline 7 april:
• Full proposal submitted via ISAAC to NWO and via email to DBT
5Requirements from India
• The Indian Principal Investigator needs to refer to the DBT guidelines available on eProMIS website
• Entities eligible to participate:
• Government of India supported or recognised (public or private) academia, research organisations;
• Government of India recognised not-for-profit, NGO’s / voluntary organisations (VO’s) / trusts /
research foundations, having research as one of the imperative mandates.
• The public and/or private partner can be from the Netherlands, India or elsewhere
• A project can apply for max Rs. 5.5 Crores from DBT
• The Government of India Finance Rules GFR 2017 and DBT financial guidelines are applicable to the part
of the project’s budget covered by the grant from DBT
• Once the applications are jointly recommended by the Joint Committee, the partner institutes need to
submit the required documents for financial due diligence
6Requirements from the Netherlands
• A Netherlands-based Principal Investigator should be a Dutch senior researcher from an
eligible research institute
• At least one Netherlands-based co-applicant should be from another Dutch institution than
the Dutch principal investigator
• The public and/or private partner can be from the Netherlands, India or elsewhere
• A project can apply for a maximum of €700,000 from NWO
• The NWO Grant Rules 2017 are applicable to the part of the project’s budget covered by the
grant from NWO.
7Criteria
I. Quality of the research proposal
II. Quality of the consortium
III. Potential scientific and/or societal breakthrough
All criteria carry equal weight
8Selection procedure
• Eligible proposals are submitted to reviewers
• Reviewer reports are made available to the Dutch Principal Investigator, who shares them with the
other consortium members. Consortium writes a response to the reviewer reports
• Application, reviewer reports, and consortium’s response are submitted to an International Advisory
Committee, who assesses the applications in competition and formulate a funding advice
• Funding advice is submitted to NWO-WOTRO Steering Committee and accredited DBT officials, who
check the procedure and make a provisional decision.
• Decision becomes final when both organisations come to the same decision
9Research for Impact - Starting points • Societal relevance of research goes hand in hand with quality of research • But: societal relevance (often) does not come automatically • Rather: societal relevance of research can be prepared, made more likely, shaped, planned, …
The plan – an integrated approach towards research impact • Co-creation by transdisciplinary teams • Theory of Change and Impact Pathway • Impact strategy (Knowledge sharing and Research Uptake) Starts from proposal development onwards
Theory of Change
‘A Theory of Change articulates the assumptions about the
process through which change will occur, and specifies the
ways in which all of the required (intermediate) outcomes
related to achieving a desired long-term change (= Impact)
will be brought about and documented as they occur.’
(Anderson, 2006, p.1)Theory of Change
Problem analysis Impact pathway
PROBLEM AREA TO BE
M&E: REVISION AND ADJUSTMENT IP
IMPACT
ADDRESSED
ASSUMPTIONS ASSUMPTIONS
CAUSES (INTERMEDIATE) OUTCOME
ASSUMPTIONS ASSUMPTIONS
UNDERLYING
KNOWLEDGE-RELATED OUTPUT
CAUSES
CONTEXT ANALYSIS, RESEARCH QUESTIONS & DESIGN, TOC:
PROJECT ACTIVITIES & RISK ASSESSMENTDefining Output, Outcome & Impact • Research output relates to the direct and immediate insights obtained by a research project or programme • Intermediate research outcome relates to positive steps towards outcomes • Research outcome relates to the changes in behaviour, relationships, actions and activities of stakeholders in the business and policy environment, resulting from exchange of knowledge and the uptake of research output • Research impact is defined as the ‘big picture’ changes in economic, environmental or social conditions that a research project or programme aims to realise
A long, iterative pathway from knowledge to societal impact
Output Outcome Impact
Direct and immediate insights Changes in behaviour, Cultural, economic, industrial,
obtained by a research project or relationships, actions and ecological or social changes
programme activities of stakeholders
Models that predict Paris Climate Agreement Reduction of carbon
changes to the climate (eg adopted by the members to emissions due to policy
by IPCC) the Conference of the Parties interventions following
from Paris Agreement
control influence interestDefining Output, Outcome & Impact • Research output relates to the direct and immediate insights obtained by a research project or programme • Intermediate research outcome relates to positive steps towards outcomes • Research outcome relates to the changes in behaviour, relationships, actions and activities of stakeholders in the business and policy environment, resulting from exchange of knowledge and the uptake of research output • Research impact is defined as the ‘big picture’ changes in economic, environmental or social conditions that a research project or programme aims to realise
Theory of Change: textile industry
Problem analysis Impact Pathway
Polluted environment,
polluted, blue rivers, PROBLEM AREA TO BE
IMPACT
diseases, affecting ADDRESSED Less pollution through
water supply,… textile industry
Textile dyeing is indeed cause for Alternative is useful and textile
pollution industries are interested
Textile companies who
(INTERMEDIATE)
Textile dyeing is one of CAUSES want to go greener
OUTCOME
the most polluting look for alternative
industries in the world production methods
Bacteria produced indigo is a
Greener alternatives are possible of indigo
good alternative
Greener alternatives for
UNDERLYING KNOWLEDGE-
indigo production are OUTPUT Discovery of bacteria
RELATED CAUSES
needed producing
indigo
RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND APPROACH & PROJECT ACTIVITIESCategories of assumptions • cause – effect relation • paradigms • worldviews & belief systems in society • context • strategy & implementation
Another long, iterative pathway from knowledge to societal impact?
Output Outcome Impact
Direct and immediate insights Changes in behaviour, Cultural, economic, industrial,
obtained by a research project or relationships, actions and ecological or social changes
programme activities of stakeholders
Credit: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg/Getty
Textile companies who want to go Less pollution through
Bacteria producing indigo greener look for alternative textile industry
production methods of indigo
control influence interestExpect to see Like to see Love to see
Stake-
holders
Key
stake- Stake-
holders
holders Stake-
holders
Consortium Target
groups
Target
groups
Sphere of control Sphere of Influence Sphere of Interest
Knowledge Co-Creation
Research Uptake
“INNER CIRCLE” “OUTER CIRCLE”
Output Outcome ImpactImpact strategy: Research Uptake Research uptake includes all activities - integrated throughout the entire research project - that facilitate and contribute to the use of research results by policy makers, practitioners and other development actors. Four main strands of RU • Stakeholder engagement • Capacity development • Communication • Monitoring & Evaluation Research Uptake is directed at • The ‘inner circle’ – the consortium and its stakeholders • The ‘outer circle’ – wider networks What are your assumptions about RU?
Four main strands of RU
• Stakeholder engagement within context analyses Early engagement and investing
in building relationships with relevant stakeholders, including the target groups;
• Capacity development Assessing and strengthening the RU capabilities of both the
consortium as well as external stakeholders and target groups to learn and
innovate;
• Communication Enhancing the availability, relevance and accessibility of research
results;
• Monitoring & Evaluation Learning and assessing for integrating and revising
research uptake objectives and expected results as intermediate outcomes,
outcomes and outputs in the Impact Pathways (and Theory of Change).
22 12/3/20 Invoegen > Koptekst en voettekstTheory of Change: Why
• Helps to think critically about the desired societal change
• Illustrates how the complex process of change will unfold over
time
• Helps/forces projects to explain output to outcome to impact logic
• Helps to manage and steer a project
• Can be used for M&E
• Opens the floor for guided discussion among consortium
members, leading to better researchTimeline
9 March 2020 Webinar
7 April 2020 Deadline full proposal
April – May – June 2020 Referees are consulted
End of June 2020 Response to referees (rebuttal)
Consortia have 5 working days
September 2020 IAC meeting
October 2020 Decision WOTRO Steering Committee
and accredited DBT officials
October 2020 DBT and NWO inform applicants
April 2021 Start projects
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