Joint Research Projects will form the core of the Scientific Programme Indonesia – Netherlands for the period 2012-2016. Joint Research Projects consist of integrated, coherent sets of research activities focusing on a specific, mutually agreed research theme or problem.

Objective

The purpose of the Joint Research Projects is to encourage long-term joint research networks. They require close collaboration between researchers working at different institutions in the Netherlands and Indonesia. Joint Research Projects are open to all scientific and scholarly disciplines. This phase of SPIN consists of nine Joint Research Projects; three centred around each of the following themes:

• Food, Non-Food and Water Research
• Social and Economic Development
• Infectious Diseases and Health

Each of the projects will consist of two 4-year PhD positions and one two-years post-doc funding; in many cases these positions are supplemented by a number of ‘DIKTI PhD Scholarships’ which are funded by the Directorate General of Higher education (DIKTI) of the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture. These PhD Scholarships are funded out of a pool of 50 possible DIKTI PhD-scholarships as direct matching of the SPIN programme. The awarded Joint Research Projects also receive budget for research and technical support.

Joint Coordination Budget

The two themes Social and Economic Development and Infectious Diseases and Health will have a coordination budget aimed to increase exchange and mutual development of the three projects within each theme. Coordination is implemented through a joint Academy Professor Indonesia, a joint Indonesian post-doc, joint training of PhD candidates, shared logistics and joint symposia and evaluation.

The projects within the theme Food, Non-Food and Water Research will not receive a Joint Coordination Budget, but still receive funds for purposes of selection and training of junior researchers.

The Academy will appoint an Academy Professor Indonesia within this theme together with the Indonesian Academy of Sciences.