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Additionally, ETH Sustainability and the Alliance for Global
Sustainability at the ETH Zurich (AGS) are important partners
for the North-South Centre. Since the reorganisation
of ETH Sustainability in 2008, we could establish a regular
exchange of experiences, which in 2009 led to the planning
of a joint summer school on urban development to be implemented
in 2010. Our involvement in activities of the AGS
is portrayed on p. 50 and p. 109. In September 2009, we
held our Annual Conference as a joint event with the Energy
Science Center of the ETH Zurich, by which we reached out to
a new target group within the ETH Zurich and beyond. Our
contribution to the MAS in Sustainable Water Resources
and our collaboration with the ETH Foundation is discussed
on pp. 6–7. With regard to the ETH Domain, the Competence
Center Environment and Sustainability (CCES),
Eawag and especially its Department of Water and Sanitation
in Developing Countries (Sandec), as well as EPFL with
cooperation@epfl are our main counterparts. The link to
our sister centre cooperation@epfl was strengthened by a
visit of members of our management team to Lausanne, in
response to their visit to Zurich in 2008.
Networking within Switzerland
At the national level, the Managing Director of the North-
South Centre is an ad personam member of the Commission
for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries (KFPE).
We contributed to the production and editing of the KFPE
brochure “Cooperating for Success. Benefits of Research Partnerships
with Developing Countries”, which presents twelve
successful projects, including an example of our research programme,
showing the advantages of scientific partnerships
with institutions in the South. The publication is targeted
mainly at policy-makers. We were also present at the KFPE
annual conference in Lugano that focused on this topic.
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Networking and communication
Networking
Anton Stadler, Swiss Agency for
Development and Cooperation
Dorah Lebelo,
Women for Climate Justice, South Africa
Urs Wiesmann,
NCCR North-South