PhD Student Fellowship

31.01.2025

The “Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers” National Research University (TIIAME-NRU) and Justus Liebig University, Giessen have established a graduate research fellowship in SDG research as a part of the SDGnexus Network II Project. The fellowship is tenable at the “Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers” National Research University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.


The position is supported by the SDGnexus Network II led by the Department of Ecology and Water Resources Management, TIIAME-NRU, Justus Liebig University, Giessen and by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany (BMZ).


Duration: 1 March 2025 – 31 December 2027

Deadline: 15 February 2025


Summary of the Fellowship

The SDGnexus Network, consisting of partners from Colombia, Ecuador, Germany, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, provides a common research framework related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN) and aims to analyze synergies

and trade-offs among individual SDGs (SDG nexus analysis).


Fields of Research

Fellow will be advised by a faculty member whose principal appointment is in water-related SDGs, agriculture and sustainable food systems, environment engineering/management, economics. We are particularly keen fellows whose research interests are in one of following topics:

• water resources management;

• land use;

• irrigated agriculture,

• climate change & biodiversity,

• governance & gender,

• spatial interaction and potential synergies and trade-offs among of agriculture and waterrelated SDGs.


A fellow is required to be admitted to the PhD program in water resources engineering/management, environmental engineering, agriculture and economics. You must apply and be accepted as a graduate student to be eligible for the fellowship.


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