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Database for preparing the pre-proposal to the Volkswagen Foundation due on 1 June 2005

To ensure the preparation of a strong pre-proposal this site is intended to collect and present relevant information. Apart from this publicly accessible section there is also an internal section, which is only accessible to those contributing to the pre-proposal. If you have information that should be added to this site please send your contribution to the Pre-Proposal Coordinating Group (see box below) and indicate if it should be presented in the public or the internal section. Possible contributions could be your contact details, your curriculum vitae, information about your institute, and most important of all, your contribution to the actual text of the pre-proposal.

Pre-proposal Coordinating Group
Fabian Wagner, Vienna/Austria, wagnerf@iiasa.ac.at, +43 2236 807-0
Joannes Berque, Paris/France, joannes.berque@wanadoo.fr, +33 1 45 68 39 86
Jurgen Theiss, San Diego/USA, j.theiss@sbcglobal.net, +1 858 551 7519

Please send your contributions always to the entire group. This will  speed up the processing of your contribution.
Group email: pre-proposal@berlinnairobi.org
Group fax: +49 30 722 398 823

Internal section
If you forgot the login/password or you would like to be allowed access please write to pre-proposal@berlinnairobi.org.
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Information sheet of the Volkswagen Foundation on the pre-proposal (pdf)
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Participants as of 15 May 2005
(Lists of fields of expertise may not be complete. This merely serves you to get acquainted with each other. Please send us any information you would like to have displayed here)

Dr Izael Pereira da Silva
Centre for Research in Energy and Energy Conservation (CREEC), Makerere University, Kampala, (Uganda)
Expertise: rural electrification

Dr Evans Kituyi
Group Leader, Industrial Ecology Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Nairobi (Kenya)
Expertise: household energy, energy policy, pollution control

David Yuko [see also this document (Word doc)]
Director of the Institute for Research in Sustainable Energy and Development (IRSEAD), Nairobi (Kenya)
Expertise: conversion technologies, stakeholder dialogue

Prof. Jürgen Bauhus
Director of the Institute of Silviculture, University of Freiburg.
Expertise: Woody biomass, soils.

Dr Ludger Eltrop/Andreas Koenig (in charge during Dr Eltrop’s absence)
Institute for Energy Economics and Efficient Energy Use (IER)
Head of IER-department "New Energy Technologies and Technology Assessment - NET"
Expertise: Woody biomass, conversion technologies

Dr. Manfred Fischedick/Anand Shukla
Wuppertal Institute, Director of the Research Group "Future Energy and Mobility Structures"
Expertise: Infrastructure, policy analysis
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