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Dear NFU members,

We would like to remind you and share the meeting link for our virtual General Assembly 2020-2021. We have already emailed the link to the members. However, many of the emails have bounced back. If you have not received the email, you can fill in your working/updated email address on the form below so that we can send you the meeting link again.

Agendas:

1. Constitute meeting and approve agenda
   1. Election of General Assembly Chair and two reporters
   2. Approval of agenda
2. Board changes
3. NFU Annual Report 2020
4. Annual plan and budget for 2021
5. Master thesis award
6. Debate: NFU strategic planning for development research
7. Incoming business

We look forward to seeing you.

The 6th joint Nordic Development Research Conference, June 21-22, 2021, is now open for papers and tentative program. The conference this years will be held online.

See:

Call for papers

Tentative program

The biannual conference for The European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) will be held 5 – 8 July 2021, Online. The conference will address inequality, poverty and political marginalization, also in connection with climate change and other environmental threats. For full details and how to register for panels, workshops, and roundtables, see https://www.eadi.org/gc/2021/frequently-asked-questions/

Register for membership today! Are you a student, PhD candidate, scholar or practitioner working in the (broadly defined) development field and studies? We would like to have you as a member! You will receive relevant updates on events, conferences, job offers, publications and more. Simply register at our Membership page. It is free!

Do you have a former student or have you written an excellent master thesis within the broad field of development studies?

The Norwegian Association for Development Research (NFU) offers the Master Thesis Award 2019-2020 and a chance to win 5000 NOK.
The winner will in addition have the chance to develop their thesis into a publishable journal article, working together with NFU board member Frida Bjørneseth. The development field is broadly defined, and is not confined to the Global South. We accept submissions that are examined at a Norwegian institution and students must register as member of NFU – free of charge in 2020 and 2021!

The deadline is 10 December 2020. Please click here to submit your thesis.

The NFU board would like to thank NFU coordinator Valerinne Prayastra Hutagalung for her excellent job in communication and organization between 2018-2020. We are thrilled to have Christina Tamang as our new coordinator and she will take lead in further developing the NFU network and communication. Tamang is a master student at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) and has extensive knowledge on communication and project coordination from past NGO works in Nepal. If you have relevant information about conferences, job openings and key publications and debates that you want to share with the NFU network, please contact Christina on [nfucoordinator@gmail.com]. 

Together with VID Specialized University, we have the pleasure of inviting you to the NFU seminar “The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Critical Role of Development Research” 8 November 2018 in Oslo.

The seminar combines panel and workshop sessions in order to provide debates as well as presentation and feedback on your research in smaller workshop groups. Here is the link to the updated seminar program and registration: https://www.vid.no/arrangementer/sustainable-development-goals/
(For registration, click the “påmelding”-button).

The deadline for submitting a paper is October 25th, 2018.

Note that the NFU seminar is also the “fagdag” for the Justice Conference Norway, that will take place on November 9 (at Sentralen). Those who want to register for both November 8 and 9 – OR for the whole 5 ECTS course at VID  (https://www.vid.no/en/courses/religion-and-the-sustainable-development-goals/) have to register before November 1st. Submissions of abstracts has an extended deadline: October 25th!

Here is a link to the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1951647428207422/ Please help spread the invitation!

The location of the seminar will take place at VID, Diakonveien 14 (https://www.vid.no/adresser/diakonveien-14/). 

We hope to see many of you there!

The seminar is organized by:

The seminar is the “fagdag” of Justice Conference Norway, which takes place November 9 (https://rettferdskonferansen.no/)

THE ASSOCIATION OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCHERS IN DENMARK (FAU)
ANNUAL CONFERENCE AUGUST 29-31, 2018
AT DJURSVOLD (DJURSLAND)

After decades of state retrenchment and market expansions, the question remains whether there is still a role to play for state provision of welfare in developing countries? FAU will take up the tradition of informal, in-depth discussions among researchers, lecturers, practitioners and students in the tranquil surroundings of rural Djursland.

Download the program here: FAU Conference 29-31 August 2018 flyer