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Official Development Assistance Institution Awards Determine robust, sustainable biomass value chains in Malaysia synergistic with food-energy-water-environment nexus by building a comprehensive optimisation model. Knowledge-exchange conference involving industrial, government & academic stakeholders The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Muon tomography of volcanoes in South America This proposal focuses on investigating the potential of muon tomography to study volcanoes in South America with a goal to predict an eruption, warn population nearby to avoid dramatic consequences.  There are more than a dozen of active volcanoes in Colombia and more than 100 overall in South America that represent significant risk to the population in nearby towns. Sudden eruptions of these volcanoes in the past caused major disasters, the latest one being the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz that melted snow and ice sending lahars into the populated area that resulted in about 20,000 casualties. Preventing volcano eruptions is impossible, but studying volcano structures and monitoring their activity may reduce the risk of disasters. Muon tomography has already been established as a tool for studying geological structures and man-made constructions, such as pyramids, volcanoes and geological repositories for CO2 storage. The potential of the technique has been recognised and sensitivity has been evaluated for some specific cases. We propose here to investigate the sensitivity of this technique to study and monitor the upper structure of volcanoes in South America to predict possible preferential pathways of debris during eventual eruptions thus reducing significantly the risk of associated disasters. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
CERN Summer Studentships 2018 CERN Summer Studentships .  Sponsoring graduate level summer studentships from >30 LMIC countries to experience CERN life, working mostly on the ATLAS and CMS detectors. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Exploration and concept 2016 Enhance scientific research, upgrade technological capabilities, encourage innovation and increase the skill base amongst research officers in South African Universities in support of increasing economic productivity. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Official Development Assistance Institution Awards Develop a user-friendly unmanned aerial vehicle planning tool for agriculture remote sensing, automatically generating an optimised survey plan. Yellow rust disease used to successfully demonstrate UAV based detection and monitoring capability The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Materia Oscura: Instrumentation Development to Observe the Invisible This project aims to draw on an area of expertise supported by the STFC core science programme, ultra-precise radioactivity measurement and calorimetry developed for dark matter and neutrino physics, and develop application of these techniques to the problem of measuring lead contamination in water and food.  The motivation for growing capacity for and developing new lead measurement techniques is that lead pollution is the #1 cause of loss of life expectancy in the world, and currently 2 of the top 10 worst pollution problems in the world are associated with lead [PureEarth2016].  This is a problem both in LMICs and in high income countries- recent examples like the Flint, Michigan, USA, water safety breaches demonstrate that water quality in violation of WHO guidelines can happen anywhere, and information about water quality, and its variation in time, is not widespread.  Even 'clean' techologies, like electric cars, employ traditional lead-based batteries; the disposal of these batteries is a leading contributor to lead pollution, particularly in LMICs.  The work in this proposal aims to make lead water contamination measurements accessible to anyone with a mobile phone.  Currently, such measurements require expensive, specialized equipment or 6-month measurements to reach relevant sensitivity levels for human health- even 0.1 parts per million contamination with lead produces devastating biological impacts.  Developing mobile-phone assay capability makes widely-distributed metrology and real-time, crowd-sourced monitoring possible, and therefore would have transformative impact on the public health problems associated with lead pollution.    While mobile-phone based radioassay has been prototyped for higher-energy and higher-rate radioactive decays, nothing exists currently to assay lead.  Reaching the sensitivity levels required for lead is an incredibly challenging problem, which we propose to address by leveraging the precision calorimetry techniques in silicon (Si) detectors developed by the DAMIC and DMTPC dark matter experiments, together with the lead assay coincidence methodology developed by the DEAP-3600 dark matter experiment that gives a factor of up to 10,000 in background suppression beyond conventional techniques.    Our ultimate goal is to to develop a mobile phone application to measure the presence of lead in water samples.  The app will employ the phone Si sensor (the camera) to perform radio-assay, with the goal of reaching the 10 parts per billion (ppb) sensitivity level, which is the World Health Organization limit on lead contamination in drinking water. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Official Development Assistance Institution Awards Translate successful nuclear applications work in Africa. Establish applications laboratories at the universities, support students to visit UK for several weeks training, and support visits by UK staff to South Africa to advise/mentor. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Visitor funding for disadvantaged Southern African PDRAs to the UK There is an urgent unmet economic need for skilled STEM workers in South Africa, but majority non-white participation in higher education is more than four times lower than among white South Africans, exacerbated by the fact that still more than 86% of full professors in South Africa are white. We propose to address this with a programme of visiting research fellowships from disadvantaged Southern African postdoctoral researchers to UK institutions partnering in the Southern African Large Telescope, addressing the following UN Sustainable Development Goals: (4) Quality Education (10) Reduced Inequalities (17) Partnerships for the Goals. This project is spectacularly cost-effective: with the fellows' salaries generously being paid directly by South Africa, and UK institutions waiving the estates/indirect costs, this project leverages more than a factor of ten more funding than the size of the STFC grant award. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Exploration and concept 2016 Exploration and Concept 2016 Award to improve understanding of historical impacts and contemporary biodiversity to support integration of conservation with regional development goals in the Brazilian Amazon The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
New satellite observations to improve monitoring and forecasting of severe smoke pollution over SE Asia caused by Indonesian landscape burning Improve air quality measurements in Indonesia, particularly during landscape burning, by enhancing monitoring techniques to help forecast problem areas and track levels of pollution. This research will benefit the entire SE Asia region. SDG:3, 13 The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Official Development Assistance Institution Awards UK-Latin America Neutrino Initiative to build collaborations focus on DUNE. The objective is to develop a detailed plan for a long-term programme that will build technological capabilities across Latin America in three key target areas. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Official Development Assistance Institution Awards ODA Institutional Award. Water - Energy - Nutrient Nexus in Manila, Philippines.  Stakeholder engagement activities in the UK and Philippines focused on broader and inclusive participation of stakeholders. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Remote Sensing for sustainable use of seasonally dry tropical forests - Learning to live with the forest Around the world, seasonally dry tropical forests have in the past been disregarded as marginal wastelands but are now recognised for the importance of their biodiversity and potential ecosystem services. They face critical challenges of conservation, unsustainable use leading to desertification, local poverty and migration to urban areas. In Brazil, 11% of its land area is this type of forest, called the Caatinga. There is an urgent need to provide methods by which this fragile biome can be monitored and protected, for the plants, animals and people who live there. The aim of this project is to develop a tool that can provide a new level, quality and accessibility of information for 1) biodiversity monitoring at species level and 2) an assessment of ecosystem quality, with resulting implications for land use. Quantitative maps generated by this novel technology can be used to optimise resources and underpin policy and forest management methods. This project will generate technological innovation by integrating high resolution remote sensing (hyperspectral imaging from drones using Rutherford Appleton Laboratory camera systems) with ground-based measurement on the ground (including plant spectral profiles and LIDAR). One way in which it will be tested will be examination of effects of various levels of cattle grazing upon the forest, as a widespread human/environment interaction. To achieve its aims, the project team is interdisciplinary and international, with research partners from the UK and Brazil. The project will also involve Brazilian stakeholders from federal and state level ministries, agencies and advisory groups, as well as NGOs and other groups responsible for communities and for policymaking. By seeking their specific needs for affordable, practical technology at the start of the project, and by facilitating their planning for uptake of the technology by the end of the project, the project will seek to maximise its impact in Brazil. The technology will also have broader relevance to other seasonal dry forests and indeed other threatened, inaccessible ecosystems around the globe. Thus, through the technological innovation and deliberate engagement of stakeholders, the project will address the UN Sustainable Development Goal 15: 'Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss'. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Official Development Assistance Institution Awards Collaborative research between UK-Thai astronomers to train Thai students and scientists in data handling and analysis; extend development of muon tomography to better characterise volcano structure with help from an expert in volcanology The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
RF Power Systems and Optimized RF structures for electron beam acceleration The proposed work is driven by the ultimate goal to design a modular linear accelerator for cancer treatment with minimum subsystems making it robust, reliable and accessible to communities with lower and intermidiate incomes. The road map to achieve this goal was identified during the recent workshop hosted by STFC, CERN and ICEC in partnership with representatives from ODA countries. It is based on the idea to use the best available in accelerator science solutions and adapt them to specific problems linked to the challenging environments, financial situations and knowledge availability in the ODA countries. This project aims to design accelerating structures which can be affordable, robust, efficient and easy to look after, while keeping the design at the cutting edge of the technological solutions available. To achieve the goals the design of the RF accelerating structure will be based on the CLIC system and adapted to the 1.3GHz frequency enabling the use of either a low voltage solid state RF power supply or alternative sources like klystron or magnetron. To make it modular with minimum subsystems required the structure will be vacuum sealed i.e.no vacuum pumps will be needed to maintain the vacuum and LINAC operation. This will reduce the overall capital and maintenance cost. To reduce the manufacturing cost of the cavity a new technology of cavity manufacturing will be tested. The cavity will be machined from two aluminium blocks using CNC lathe. This will also reduce the weight of the cavity allowing the beam energy of 6MeV -8MeV to be achieved while RF cavity length is around 30cm.  The Department of Physics workshop has experience of building a 1.3GHz RF cavity using CNC lathe and will be able to manufacture the cavity in the time scale of the project. It also has experience with vacuum testing of the structures and has the equipment required. The RF bead pull test facilities (JAI Oxford and Daresbury Laboratory) will be used to measure operating and high order modes. The cavity will be sealed and vacuum tested in JAI Oxford and transported to CERN for high power RF tests. The cavity will be kept sealed to observe whether any vacuum degradation will take place with time. To ensure that the system is suitable for ODA countries the partners from Nigeria and Tanzania will be invited to the workshop in Oxford to test the system and advise on ergonomics of the design. We plan to communicate regularly (every two weeks) with all partners via web-meetings during the project to ensure stable and continuous progress as well as securing the impact of the deliverables to the overall aim of the project. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Mass spectrometry techniques for rapid detection of adulteration of milk powder and vegetable oils in developing countries. The photoionisation mass spectrometry has been developed at The University of Manchester and matured under continuous support from STFC. It has reached an unprecedented sensitivity of fg/ sample, reduced in size down to tabletop making it cheap and transportable, opening the way for rapid screening capabilities in developing countries. The project will identify and select appropriate analytical techniques and develop protocols to assess the authenticity, safety and quality of food in developing countries. Milk powder and vegetable oils will be used as exemplar commodities to establish methods and guidance for 'front-line' food adulteration screening. We will continue and deepen our existing collaboration with China, India, Malaysia, Morocco, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Uganda in the framework of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) coordinated research project "Field-deployable analytical methods to assess the authenticity, safety and quality of food". The samples of milk powder and vegetable oils will be collected from different geographical regions/ producers of these countries and sent to our Manchester laboratory for analysis. They will be screened for harmful antibiotics residues and traces of nitrogen reach compounds e.g. urea and biuret. Their fatty acids profiles will be determined and statistically analysed to reveal the origin and possible adulteration by mixing with other less expensive or refined products.     Together with the collaborators from developing countries, experts from IAEA and UN and industry we will analyse and disseminate the data obtained in the analytical campaign which will help in shaping the new policies in developing countries and the UK, improve food safety and quality, and may lead to commercialisation of technology developed under STFC support. We will provide a technical advice and guidance and assist in transfer of developed analytical methods and protocols to a research and commercial bases available in China, India, Malaysia, Morocco, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Uganda. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Official Development Assistance Institution Awards Link researchers and businesses in China & UK for knowledge sharing and project development. Support feasibility studies & proof of concept projects. Run dissemination events ensuring knowledge is shared across the community. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Cloud-based Electronic Infrastructure in Support of Linac-based Radiotherapy in Challenging Environments This study aims to adapt an existing Cloud-based Electronic Platform (CEP) to facilitate remote treatment planning, research, education and multidisciplinary training partnerships between radiotherapy teams working in high-income countries and those in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) which operate in challenging environments. As part of the proposed 3-month work package, four radiotherapy centre visits will be planned in Nigeria and Ghana as part of this feasibility study. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Exploration and concept 2016 Demonstration of an easy-to-use web portal providing access to environmental analytics of “big” Earth System data to users and scientists in developing countries. The focus is on air pollution in mega-cities and developing key indicators. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
Official Development Assistance Institution Awards ODA Institutional Award. Understanding Cadmium Uptake by Cocoa Plants via Cd Isotope Analyses: improved understanding of cadmium (Cd) accumulation in cocoa and an initial assessment of the variability of Cd uptake amongst different cocoa varieties. The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.