The Southeast Asian University Consortium for Graduate Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources is offering thesis grants for school year 2006-2007.

The Consortium provides a limited amount of funds to assist ongoing graduate students of any of the Consortium members and associate members in the preparation and production of the thesis/dissertation manuscript. Each grant is up to a maximum of US$500.

The Consortium members are Institut Pertanian Bogor and Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia, Universiti Putra Malaysia in Malaysia, Kasetsart University in Thailand, and University of the Philippines Los Baños in the Philippines. The Consortium associate members are University of Queensland in Australia, University of British Columbia in Canada, and Georg-August University of Göttingen in Germany.

To qualify for the grant, the thesis/dissertation of the applicant must be in line with the Consortium's strategic priorities, namely: sustainable management of natural resource systems; food and agriculture policy; biotechnology in agriculture; food and health; information and communication technology, bioinformatics; and data management in agriculture.

To date, 173 Consortium students have availed of thesis grants. (LLDDomingo)