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The WWW-YES-2011 cooperative research projects

Monday 4 July 2011, by Daniel Thevenot

2011 Cooperative research project building up (6-10 June 2011

At the start of the workshop, participants were invited to build multidisciplinary groups of 3-4 persons and to select one of the topic proposal presented by Martin Seidl within actual research topics at LEESU. Within a short period of time (ca. 3 half-days), each group prepared a proposal for international scientific research, under the guidance of senior experts. The topics of these proposals were defined with the help of academic searchers .

For better understanding of such role game, this collective proposal preparation was introduced by a short course on scientific proposal writing and accompanied by Daniel Thevenot who has experienced European research projects.

Each collaborative research proposal resulted both into :

  • a one-page ‘expression of interest’ distributed to participants and
  • an oral presentation and discussion with a panel of senior scientists and practitioners on the morning of Friday 10 June 2011.

The aims of this exercise are to learn how to justify all aspects of an international research project and to help participants to possibly obtain a support for future environmental research projects during or after their PhD preparation.






Monday 6 June at Arcueil city hall

Collaborative research project

Conf. time Title of activity
14:00 Presentation of research cooperation project topics by SEIDL Martin
14:30 Selection of research cooperation project topic by each group
15:00 Research cooperation project building-up methodology: an introduction by THEVENOT Daniel
15:30 Rehearsal of presentation and discussion of drinking water survey summary by ‘summary team members’
18:00 End of session



Wednesday 8 June at CAVB

Collaborative research project

Time Title of activity
11:00 Research cooperation project: preparation
12:30 Buffet lunch
13:30 Research cooperation project: preparation
18:00 End of session



Thursday 9 June at CAVB

Collaborative research project

Time Title of activity
11:40 Research cooperation project: preparation
12:30 Buffet lunch
13:30 Research cooperation project: summary preparation (EoF)
15:30 Research cooperation project: presentation preparation (PPT)
18:00 End of session



Friday 10 June at CAVB

Collaborative research project

Time Title of activity
8:30 Presentation equipment set-up
9:00 Research cooperation project presentation & discussion by each group
11:30 Research cooperation project: classification (ballot)
12:00 Celebration of the winner groups around a glass






Actual cooperative research proposals

Research call Research project title Project members
3. Impact of shale gas extraction on aquatic ecosystem Innovative integrative approach for assessing shale gas exploitation impacts - ASGIM-Shale gas impact (summary & presentation) Davi CUNHA, Marie-Laure DE BOUTRAY, Luminita GHERVASE & Mathilde SOYER
4. River water transposition between basins Transformation of land use in Sousa microbasin due to the transposition of São Francisco River - Transposing politics TLS (summary & presentation) Mathieu CLADIERE, Ali FADEL, Rafael FLORES & Matias TOLOSA
1.Water recycling in urban areas Feasibility of recycling grey water for non-drinking uses in urban communities: Singapore and Mexico City case study RGWUC (summary & presentation) Andrea BERNAL, Oluseyi EWEMOJE, Jun Wei LIM & Talita SILVA
5. Creek revitalization Collaborative Research on Urban Creek Revitalization CRUCR (summary & presentation) Mohammad HOSSEINI, Fang-yu HU & Ezra ORLOVSKI

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