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Cooperation Indonesia-The NetherlandsRenewable Energy
Webinar Tuesday 20 August 2019
Dr Cora Govers, Dr Arina Schrier, Adhi Indra Hermanu, Maaike Spiekerman
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Agenda• 9.30-10.30 CEST (14.30-15.30 WIB)
• Introductions
• Aim of the call and background of the programme
• General requirements
• Research for impact
• Q&A – please send us your questions via the chatroom!
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Aim of the 2019 call• To address societal challenges that are global in nature and increase the societal relevance of
research;
• To enhance and strengthen sustainable research collaboration;
• To bring together partners in society to co-develop the knowledge needed to support decision-makers and contribute to societal change;
• To build and connect scientific knowledge and innovative solutions to increase the (societal) impact of research;
• To explore new development pathways; and
• To find new ways to accelerate transitions towards sustainable development.
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Bilateral collaborationIndonesia-The Netherlands
• NWO and RISTEKDIKTI aim to stimulate long term research collaboration between their two countries by funding jointresearch;
• To strengthen the international position and global impact of their research;
• Funding is provided for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary consortia of Indonesian and Dutch research groups andstakeholder partners, for high quality research that has the potential for societal and scientific impact;
• Strategic knowledge and innovation agendas through a jointly agreed theme based annual call for proposals;
• Funded research projects should be in alignment with national research agendas, as well as international initiativessuch as the UN’s SDGs; and
• To build bridges between different actors in the knowledge chain, fundamental and applied research, and scientificdisciplines.
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Thematic focus: Renewable Energy• Transition to sustainable, low-carbon energy systems;
• Technical and social aspects;
• Can have consequences for other areas;
• Inter- and transdisciplinary research to address challenges related to renewable energy
• Knowledge-chain wide
• Possible focus areas:
• Clean, low carbon biofuels
• Clean, low carbon energy technology
• Energy storage and conversion
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General requirements• Funding for 2 projects.
• Max €700,000 from NWO, max R400,000,000 per work package led by Indonesian Work Package Manager on RISTEKDIKTI side (dependent on research area and subject to review)
• Consortia should consist of
• a Dutch and Indonesian Principal investigator (PI)
• A public and/or private practitioner partner
• Several Indonesian work package managers
• Public and/or private practitioner partner can be from Indonesia or the Netherlands
• Deadlines:
• 3 September, 14:00: Letter of Intent, signed by Dutch and Indonesian PIs, to [email protected] is mandatory
• 17 September: full proposal submitted to ISAAC by Dutch PI
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Requirements from Indonesia
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For Indonesian scientists, RISTEKDIKTI requires the Principal Investigator and work package managers to meet conditions in accordance to Simlitabmas Guidline XII edition, with a minimum requirements as follows:
• Indonesian citizens and hold a permanent or fixed-term contract in an eligible university or research institute in Indonesia;
• An employee of Higher Education Institutions/University;
• Competent in oral and writing English skills;
• Receive permission from employing Higher Education Institutions/University to administer the grant;
• Meet the minimum terms and conditions of the grant for international collaboration.
The Principal Investigator shall also be willing to coordinate the Indonesian members of the consortium in the administrative process and substance of the research. Other co-applicants are allowed.
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Requirements from the Netherlands• Dutch Principal Investigator should be a Dutch senior researcher from an eligible research
institute
• Employment contract for duration of assessment procedure and the project
• PhD or equivalent
• Exemption tenure track
• University of applied science (HBO) can be co-applicant
• A project can apply for a maximum of €700,000 from NWO
• The NWO Grant Rules 2017 are applicable to the part of the project’s budget covered by the grant from NWO.
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Criteria
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I. Quality of the research proposal
II. Quality of the consortium
III. Potential scientific and/or societal breakthrough
All criteria carry equal weight.
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Selection procedure• Letter of Intent!
• Eligible proposals are submitted to reviewers
• Reviewer reports are made available to Dutch Principal Investigator, who shares them withthe other consortium members. Consortium writes a response to the reviewer reports
• Application, reviewer reports, and consortium’s response are submitted to an International Advisory Committee, who assess the applications in competition and formulate a fundingadvice
• Funding advice is submitted to NWO-WOTRO Steering Committee and accreditedRISTEKDIKTI officials, who check procedure and make provisional decision. Decision becomesfinal when both organisations come to the same decision.
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Research for Impact - Starting points
• Societal relevance of research goes hand in hand with quality of research
• But: societal relevance (often) does not come automatically
• Rather: societal relevance of research can be prepared, made more likely, shaped, planned, …
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Example: NWO-WOTRO funded researchis directed at producing societally relevant research
and
is evaluated as scientifically very good (CWTS report 2017)
• Publications from WOTRO projects are cited 43% more often than comparable publications
• WOTRO articles are published in journals with 30% higher impact factor than average
• 16% of the WOTRO articles belong to top 10% of publications in their scholarly domain
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Aspects of research relevance: general assumptions
Distinction between fundamental and applied research is unfruitful for impact
Addressing societal challenges requires multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary research
Other types of knowledge than scholarly knowledge are often valuable too
Research for impact needs an
integrated approach
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Integrated approach towards research impact
• Co-creation by transdisciplinary teams
• Theory of Change and Impact Pathway
• Impact strategy (Knowledge sharing and Research Uptake)
Starts from proposal development onwards
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Theory of Change
‘A Theory of Change articulates the assumptions about the process through which change will occur, and specifies the ways in which all of the required (intermediate) outcomes related to achieving a desired long-term change (= Impact) will be brought about and documented as they occur.’
(Anderson, 2006, p.1)
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Categories of assumptions• cause – effect relation
• paradigms
• worldviews & belief systems in society
• context
• strategy & implementation
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Problem analysis Impact pathway
IMPACTPROBLEM AREA TO BE
ADDRESSED
CAUSES
Theory of Change
(INTERMEDIATE) OUTCOME
OUTPUT
CONTEXT ANALYSIS, RESEARCH QUESTIONS & DESIGN, TOC:PROJECT ACTIVITIES & RISK ASSESSMENT
UNDERLYING
KNOWLEDGE-RELATED
CAUSES
ASSUMPTIONS
ASSUMPTIONS
ASSUMPTIONS
ASSUMPTIONS
M&
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REVIS
ION
AN
DA
DJU
STM
EN
TIP
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Defining Output, Outcome & Impact• Research output relates to the direct and immediate insights
obtained by a research project or programme.
• Intermediate research outcome relates to positive steps towardsoutcomes.
• Research outcome relates to the changes in behaviour, relationships, actions and activities of stakeholders in the business and policy environment, resulting from exchange of knowledge and the uptake of research output.
• Research impact is defined as the ‘big picture’ changes in economic, environmental or social conditions that aresearch project or programme aims to realise.
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Example output
• “[..] from a gender-aware perspective a basic understanding is gained of the gender specific obstacles and constraints faced by Women Food Entrepreneurial groups in both study sites. Sometimes, these obstacles and constraints are ‘external’ (poverty conditions, lack of space, resources, secured access to land, farm inputs, potable water, mobility and access to markets, time and financial and physical capital) and ‘internal’ to the WFE groups: unequal relationships within groups preventing women to actively participate in decision making and putting their priorities on the agenda.”
(Source: GCP2 midterm self-assessment Women Food Entrepreneurs in Kenya and Burkina Faso)
Not: an article in which the gender specific obstacles and constraints faced by Women Food Entrepreneurial groups in both study sites
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Example intermediary outcome• An unexpected intermediary outcome has been realized within the postdoc project in
Thailand. As the Thai government is in the process of redesigning dairy extension, bringing up the subject of the inclusion of women in dairy cooperatives was of interest to dairy value chain stakeholders. With support by the Dutch Embassy in Bangkok, an expert meeting was organised to discuss the issue of women in dairy cooperatives.
(Source: GCP2 midterm self-assessment LIQUID)
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Example outcome
• “For [consortium partner] Solidaridad Follow the Food has helped boost internal attention for food security, especially in relation to its engagement with private sector. [..] In programmes that have started in 2016 this type of private sector engagement has taken form in Solidaridads’ landscape programming, where local food security challenges are now considered in dialogue with landscape stakeholders.”
(Source: GCP2 midterm self-assessment Follow The Food)
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Outcomes of Research: possible dimensions
• Conceptual changes Change in the understanding, in the way of thinking or raised awareness on the issue
• Instrumental changes Concrete change to policy, interventions, practices or pathways for implementation
• Capacity developmentBuilding the capacity of stakeholders to use reseachfindings/evidence
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Impact strategy: Research UptakeResearch uptake includes all activities - integrated throughout the entire research project - that facilitate and contribute to the use of research results by policy makers, practitioners and other development actors.
Four main strands of RU
• Stakeholder engagement
• Capacity development
• Communication
• Monitoring & Evaluation
Research Uptake is directed at
• The ‘inner circle’ – the consortium and its stakeholders
• The ‘outer circle’ – wider networks
What are your assumptions about RU?
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Four main strands of RU
• Stakeholder engagement within context analyses Early engagement and investing in building relationships with relevant stakeholders, including the target groups;
• Capacity development Assessing and strengthening the RU capabilities of both the consortium as well as external stakeholders and target groups to learn and innovate;
• Communication Enhancing the availability, relevance and accessibility of research results;
• Monitoring & Evaluation Learning and assessing for integrating and revising research uptake objectives and expected results as intermediate outcomes, outcomes and outputs in the Impact Pathways (and Theory of Change).
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Output Outcome Impact
Sphere of control Sphere of Influence
Keystake-holders
Sphere of Interest
Love to seeLike to seeExpect to see
Knowledge Co-Creation
Research Uptake
Consortium Target groups
Stake-holders
Stake-holders
“INNER CIRCLE” “OUTER CIRCLE”
Stake-holders
Target groups
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Timeline
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20 August Webinar
3 September 2019 Letter of Intent required
17 September 2019 Deadline full proposal
September-December 2019 Referees are consulted
End of November/beginning of December 2019
Response to referees (rebuttal)Consortia have 5 working days
January/February 2020 IAC meeting
February 2020 Decision WOTRO Steering Committeeand accredited RISTEKDIKTI officials
End of February/Beginning of March RISTEKDIKTI and NWO inform applicants
End of June 2020 Latest start projects
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Q&APlease type your questions in the chat room
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