The Cocoon Steering Committee received 45 proposals. Seven projects were awarded grants. These projects will start with a working programme of two years. Successful projects may apply for extension of their activities through a second call (up to one million Euro per project) for a maximum duration of five years in total. 

Early December 2010 a kick-off seminar of the CoCooN programme will be organised. At this seminar the consortia of the awarded projects will be invited to present and discuss their projects. Please stay informed through the website or the news flash (click here to register). 

Awarded projects 
The following projects have been awarded with a grant:

• Small-scale gold mining and social conflict in the Amazon: Comparing states, environments, local populations and miners in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Suriname (GOMIAM)

• Re-incorporating the excluded: providing space for small-scale fishers in the sustainable development of fisheries of South Africa and South Asia

• Land Grab and Dwindling Water Resources: Reconciling competing claims and conflicts over natural resources in Africa’s dry lands, specifically Kenya

• Nationalization of extractive industries, conflict and co-operation in Bolivia and Ecuador

• Assessing the socio-economic implications of industrial biofuel plantations: Repercussions of Jatropha curcas on rural land use alienation and conflict escalation in Ghana and Ethiopia

• Lands and Rights in Troubled Waters - Land-use change, environmental harm and human rights violations in Colombia and Brazil: the case of the Cauca and Tapajós basins

• Groundwater in the Political Domain