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62 Extraction of DNA for genes at the ETH Zurich Plant Biotechnology Lab Capacity development Universities and higher education are key to socio-economic development, to self-esteem and success of any society, whether poor or rich. Anton Stadler, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (2009)
Capacity development Individual capacity development supported by the North-South Centre has lasting effects at the institutional level – in particular if the collaboration is continuous, combining various instruments. Strengthening the institutional capacities in the South and opening up opportunities for scientists to remain in their home institutions contributes to reducing the “brain-drain” from South to North. Capacity development activities at the North-South Centre take place mainly at the individual level, supporting scientists from developing countries and emerging economies as well as researchers from the ETH Zurich dealing with development-related topics. A variety of instruments such as grants for visiting scientists or teaching stays, scholarships and our annual colloquium respond to the interests of doctoral students, post-docs and senior scientists. By strategically targeting the available instruments for individual capacity development, we can have a leverage effect at the institutional level. For example, training a doctoral candidate from a partner institution and later on supporting his post-doc career as staff of the home institution will strengthen the academic profile of this partner institution. This has been practiced, for example, with the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques (CSRS) in Côte d’Ivoire, as the case of Lucien Diby illustrates: In 2001, the young scientist from Côte d’Ivoire obtained a scholarship from the Research Fellowship Partnership Programme (RFPP), which allowed him to realise a doctoral research project on the growth of yam in collaboration between the CSRS and the ETH Zurich. While he carried out the fieldwork in Côte d’Ivoire, he stayed several times at the Institute of Plant Science at the ETH Zurich in order to conduct specialised laboratory analyses and to acquire additional experimental skills. He successfully obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Cocody in 2005 and was assigned as programme manager at the CSRS and as lecturer at the École Supérieure d’Agronomie (ESA) in Yamoussoukro. In 2008, Lucien Diby returned to the ETH Zurich to continue his research and to organise (together with Emmanuel Frossard) a conference on yam physiology for international experts in Zurich. This visit was made possible by a North-South Centre grant for visiting scientists from developing countries. Today, the long-term institutional collaboration with the CSRS is continuing with a follow-up project involving another RFPP fellow from Côte d’Ivoire, Valéry Kouamé Hgaza. Thus, various individual capacity development instruments applied in settings of continuous collaboration with research institutions in developing countries will strengthen these institutions. The career of Lucien Diby is typical for a former RFPP fellow, as the statistics show: Since 1996, 30 doctoral candidates and post-docs concluded their research projects funded through RFPP fellowships. Of the 13 fellows from the South, 70% currently work for a research institution in a developing country or for an international research centre. 63 Capacity development
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