Two PhD Positions in ITB Available in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Funded Project on Pro-poor Sanitation Innovations

Project title: Stimulating local innovation on sanitation for the urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia

UNESCO-IHE, The Netherlands, and the following partners:  ITB in Bandung, Indonesia, Makerere University in Uganda, KNUST in Ghana, AIT in Thailand, 2iE in Burkina Faso, UCT in South Africa, UFMG in Brasil, and Univalle in Colombia were awarded a US$8 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will be used to finance a 5-year capacity building and research project to stimulate local innovation on sanitation for the urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. To support the research component of the project 20 PhD positions for junior researchers are funded by the project.

ITB has been appointed to carry out 2 (two) Ph.D research projects in the following title: (1). Low‐cost wastewater collection & treatment and (2) . Emergency sanitation following natural & anthropological disasters.

Picture: The kick-off Meeting in Delft, the Netherlands, Nov. 8 – 11, 2011

For more information please visit:
http://www.unesco-ihe.org/Pro-poor-Sanitation-Innovations/Twenty-PhD-Positions-Available
or
Prof. Tjandra Setiadi, Ph.D
Pusat Studi Lingkungan Hidup (Centre for Environmental Studies)
Institut Teknologi Bandung
Email : tjandra@che.itb.ac.id