International Science Programme : Annual Report for 2009

ISP provides long-term support for the development of active and sustainable research environments within these basic sciences in developing countries. The support is directed to research groups and regional networks. The work is carried out in close cooperation with research groups at more advanced host institutions. Although Uppsala University is the base of the operation, ISP functions as a national programme and host laboratories may be at other Swedish universities, in other Nordic and European countries, and in the regions. This is to meet the requests from developing countries on their own terms. ISP funding is used for equipment, spare parts, consumables, technical services, literature, computer hard- and software, and costs associated with arranging and participating in meetings, exchange visits, training, etc. Besides what has been achieved in terms of development and maintenance of resources, contacts, etc., the results of ISP support in 2009 can be summarized based on the expenditures. For each MEUR spent (assuming that one EUR equals 10 SEK) the outcome was: 19 PhD graduations, 59 MSc/MPhil graduations, 45 international publications, 58 regional or national publicationst, 113 conference contributions (34% of which international), and 20 conferences/workshops etc. arranged