Waste Watchers: A Citizen Science Project to Reduce Food & Plastic Wastes from Households in Lebanon and Switzerland
Lebanon
| Environmental Sciences
The RPG 2025 call is now closed.
The call for projects "Research Partnership Grants" aims at developing new joint project proposals or connecting already existing funded projects in Switzerland and in the MENA partner countries into long-lasting cooperation. The goal of this instrument is to allow researchers to conduct desk-based research, fieldwork, feasibility studies, archival research, qualitative interviews, surveys, artistic practices, design thinking, or other forms of collaborative work, in order to apply for grants from other funding agencies (e.g. national funding agencies or EU funding schemes), and/or to develop long-term partnerships between two institutions or research groups. The Research Partnership Grants instrument has already been launched in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
Funded projects
By the deadline of the call for projects, 157 applications had been submitted from 15 countries in the MENA region and 36 institutions in Switzerland. Following an eligibility check, an evaluation by external reviewers from Switzerland and the MENA region, and a final selection by a committee, thirteen projects were chosen for funding. The list of selected projects is provided below.