Productive Learning Cultures II (NUFUPRO 2007/10176) The project is a collaboration network project in education building on the strengths of the previous NUFU funded project PLC I (2002-2005). Some senior academics from the PLC I project, who have become leaders in their research fields, are continuing their work in the PLCII project. By drawing competence from the first round, these academics will contribute with supervision, knowledge on how to establish and run a journal with their considerable research experience. The University of Malawi and the University of Zambia are included in this project. University of Bergen (Norway) and University of Pretoria (South Africa) will be the UiN and UiS coordinators respectively. Research and capacity building to address the diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in tuberculosis (NUFUPRO 2007/10183) University of Stellenbosch and University of Bergen are partners in this new network project. Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem. This project will research on to measure the diagnostic value and utility of novel ESAT-6-based TB tests. This project has four network partners in the South: University of Western Cape. SA, National Institute of Medical Research, Tanzania, Tribhuvan University, Nepal and All India Institute of Medical Science, India. Randomised controlled trials in India, Nepal, and South Africa will assess the effect of adjunctive micronutrient supplementation, administered as part of the established DOTS on treatment outcome among pulmonary TB patients. Nature conservation and management: Biodiversity in coastal Maputaland (Northern Kwazulu-Natal and Southern part of Mozambique): Links between Geology and Ecology (NUFUSM 2007/10162) This two years SM-project is a continuous project between the University of KwaZulu Natal (SA) and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB). The main goal is to complete the interdisciplinary studies started earlier along the scientists from Mozambique, Norway and South Africa in 1999. The studies are carried out in coastal Maputaland in southern Mozambique and northern South Africa in an area of dynamic dune systems, wetlands, lakes and estuaries. The studies include vegetation, groundwater, surface water and sediments. Renewable energy resources and their development (NUFUSM 2007/10181) This SM-project with NTNU will contribute to further activities at University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) on development of educational and research activities on solar energy systems. UKZN is proposing to establish an extended laboratory for solar energy on campus, in collaboration with ESKOM. One important new aspect is to test solar powered Stirling engines. A supportive NUFU project will strengthen this activity, and increase the prospects of sustainable further research activities at UKZN. The Psychology Co-operation Programme UoO/UNIN - Subproject Disruptive Behaviour and Attention Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence in South Africa (NUFUSM 2007/10207) The overall aim of the present research collaboration between the University of Limpopo and UIO in this SM-project is to develop the insights and advancements
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