IPCC Scholarships on Climate Change

SCHOLARSHIPS RESEARCH ON CLIMATE CHANGE

6 years of partnership

€ 359,273.72 of fundings

11 theses supported The Intergovernmental panel for Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 in order to build capacity to understand and address climate change. Its advisory body consists of a group of independent and international scientists.

The IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for its efforts to “build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”. After receiving the award, it decided to create, with the accompanying financial prize, a scholarship programme to invest in PhD students from developing countries for research that advances the understanding of the scientific basis of risks of climate change in their own regions.

The first IPCC awards were granted in 2011 in collaboration with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation (FPA2). In 2013, the Cuomo Foundation joined the scholarship programme and funded 5 of the PhD students selected. In 2017, the fourth round of the IPPC scholarships were awarded. The Foundation has now supported 11 research students since its involvement as a partner.

In June 2018, the 4 newly selected research students attended the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Awards in Monaco during which they were officially granted their scholarships.

Ei Phyu Win sur le site de sa recherche, région de Mandalaya, Myanmar

Education & Research

2017-2019 fellows at the FPA2 Foundation Awards Ceremony - June 22nd, 2018

2017-2019 CLASS

Htwe Min THANT | Myanmar

Research subject: Phylogenetic relationships and screening of drought tolerance of Myanmar eggplant genotypes

Aïssatou FAYE | Senegal

Research subject: West African Monsoon dynamics and sensibility, estimation of present and future coastal cities extension impacts on local and regional climate, urban heat island effect, downscaling of regional climate model and the evaluation of regional climate model performance

Suranjith Bandara KORALEGEDARA | Sri Lanka

Research subject: The role of urban heat island effect and influence of future climate change in mesoscale extreme rainfall events in urban cities

Mokria Mulugeta GEMI | Ethiopia - continued from the previous class

Research subject: Dendroclimatological Potential of Afromontane Tree Species and Reconstruct Multi-century Hydro-climatic Information for The Upper Blue Nile River Basin, Using Tree Ring as A Proxy

Testimonial by Tran Anh Duong, Foundation Fellow between 2013 - 2017

After completion of my PhD program at Technical University of Munich, I come back Vietnam and work for Vietnamese - German University, Ho Chi Minh city starting from this month, 2019.

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the Cuomo Foundation for the big and valuable support me to finish this difficult mission. I also want to thank all staffs at Cuomo Foundation especially Mrs. Elena - President of Foundation for facilitating all procedures to help me during last 5 years. All my works and papers include the name of Cuomo Foundation at acknowledge part as a manner to thank and appreciate to Foundation (please some papers as attached below). In near future, I would like to keep in touch with you and have further cooperation with Foundation in education and training program. I would cordially invite you to visit Vietnamese-Germany University in some occasions.

Again thank you so much for your big financial support.

Dr.-Ing. Tran Anh Duong Research Coordinator of Artificial Intelligence and Water Resources Engineering Research Group. Vietnamese German University (VGU) - Thủ Dầu Một, Vietnam