Seed Money for Cooperation with Mediterranean Countries
This call for projects was launched in March 2018. Projects were selected in July and started soon after that. You can find detailed information about the eleven funded projects below.
Towards a quantification of karst water resources in the Maghreb
Main applicant
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Marc Luetscher - Swiss Institute for speleology and karst studies IISKA
Partner in the MENA region
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Moez Mansoura - Office national des mines, Tunis, Tunisia
Relations between family situations, social work and schools to foster children's resilience towards violence. Case study in the occupied territories, Tulkarem, Palestine
Main applicants
- Joëlle Libois - HES-SO, Haute école de travail social Geneva
- Alexandre Dormeier Freire - Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Partners in the MENA region
- Samah Saleh - An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
Article published in Animation, territoires et pratiques socioculturelles
Grant from LHMENA "Innovation Starting Grant"
Familles transnationales et soin aux parents âgés à distance: le cas des familles tunisiennes en Suisse et leurs parents résidents en Tunisie
Main applicant
- Stefanie Kurt - HES-SO, Haute école de travail social VS, Sierre
Partners in the MENA region
- Lassaad Labidi - Institut national du travail et des études sociales de Tunis, Tunisia
Article published on NCCR On the Move
Article published in Ageing and Migration in a Global Context
Presentation at the international conference Mapping the Nation
Cross-border reproductive care in the Maghreb region: an emerging reproscape?
Main applicant
- Irene Maffi - University of Lausanne
Partners in the MENA region
- Betty Rouland - University of Carthage, Tunisia
Blog of the project
Article published in Medical Anthropology
RESET-Francophone (RElève Scientifique, Education et Technologie)
Main applicant
- Barbara Class - University of Geneva
Partners in the MENA region
- Molka BelCadhi - Virtual University of Tunis, Tunisia
- Najemeddin Soughati - Ibn Tofaïl University, Kenitra, Morocco
- Dalila Bebbouchi - Research Centre on Scientific and Technical Information (CERIST), Algiers, Algeria
Website of the project
Article published in L'éducation en débat: analyse comparée
Presentation at the EdMedia Conference in Amsterdam (June 2019)
Grant from SNSF Spark
RS2PRM - Remote Sensing to Support Participatory Rangeland Management planning
Main applicant
- Pascale Waelti-Maumier - Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH
Partners in the MENA region
- Mohamed Qarro - Ecole nationale forestière d'ingénieurs ENFI, Salé, Morocco
Promotion of humanitarian innovative delivery modes of health care and medication to migrant and refugee crises in the MENA region
Main applicant
- Maurizio Caon - HES-SO, Haute école de gestion de Fribourg
Partners in the MENA region
- Dani Mezher - Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth, Lebanon
- Sara Yassine - Université Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco
Article published in Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Applications II
Article published in Swisseco
News on HEG-FR website
Story on research.swiss
The city of Fès as a locus to investigate migration processes on the move
Main applicant
- Filippo Bignami - Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana SUPSI
Partner in the MENA region
- Moha Ennaji - Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco
Article published in Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation
Article published in The Journal of North African Studies
Participation in the workshop "Migration, Mobilité et Développement" in Fez
Perception of disability among pupils, parents, educators and staff in schools in Lebanon
Main applicant
- Sabine Emad - HES-SO, Haute école de gestion, Geneva
Partners in the MENA region
- Michèle Kosremelli Asmar - Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth USJ, Lebanon
Experimental evaluation of the antiarrhythmic effect of epigallocatechin-3-gallate in cardiac channelopathies
Main applicant
- Hugues Abriel - University of Bern
Partners in the MENA region
- Mohamed Yassine Amarouch - Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco
Article published in Molecules
Episode of the podcast "Sabbatique en Afrique francophone"
The cultural identity and training of future teachers: a Swiss-Moroccan comparative study
Main applicant
- Marlène Lebrun - Haute école pédagogiqueBEJUNE
Partners in the MENA region
- Abdelhaouad Mabrour - Université Chouaïb Doukkali, El Jadida, Morocco