Selection Board

The Selection Board awards funding from components 1 and 2 of the Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education and Research for Development – appear.

It decides about

• the awarding of funds for academic partnerships
• the awarding of preparatory funding for the initiation and development of new partnerships
• the awarding of Master's and PhD grants

The Selection Board takes into account the objectives of the programme, the quality of the applications and the availability of funding. The Selection Board formally approves the decisions and advises the appear team to start the contracting process. The Board is entitled to award either a full agreement with the proposed activities and the requested funds; to agree only to partial funding and a reduced set of activities; or to reject the entire proposal. Improved proposals may be resubmitted in subsequent calls.

Aspects that may be decisive when a choice between equally scoring projects needs to be made are: gender aspects, cooperation between institutions that  are new, balanced overall coverage of thematic priorities, balanced regional distribution, and regional networks in the South.

Current members of the Selection Board:

• 3 experts in development cooperation with expertise in the following areas
  
  • Gender mainstreaming: Elisabeth Schmid
  • Familiarity with science and research in developing countries (key regions of the OEZA) as well as expertise in development research: Gudrun Lettmayer
  • Development policies and research for development (R4D): Marie-France Chevron
• 2 representatives of the Austrian Development Agency (ADA): Gertraud Findl, Ursula Steller
• 1 representative of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG): Ralf König
• 1 representative of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): Reinhard Belocky

Selection Board - Terms of Reference

Steering Committee

The Steering Committee of the Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education and Research - appear - has the following tasks:

• Continuous checking of the strategic orientation of the programme
• Feedback and adjustment of the programme to international developments in the field of higher education and research for development
• Supervision of the programme administration and monitoring of the evaluation
• Advising the consortium on questions related to the execution of the programme

Steering Committee - Terms of Reference

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Commissioned by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), the operational unit of the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC)