National Program for Sustainable Irrigation - National Program for Sustainable Irrigation ANCID Travel Fellowship

Sustainable Irrigation/ANCID Travel Fellowship (CID6)

Providing short-term fellowships to enhance researcher knowledge and information exchange

Principal Investigator	Project Manager: Mr Kim Russell, ANCID Executive Officer, Mobile: 0428 696 350 Landline: 02 6290 0874 Fax: 02 6103 9023 Email: Kim.Russell@ancid.org.au Postal Address: PO Box 326 Mawson, ACT 2607
Issue or Problem to be Addressed	To encourage and promote the development of young professionals in the Australian irrigation industry.
Objectives	To provide professionals within the irrigation industry the opportunity to travel overseas to gain experience and knowledge in their nominated area of interest To report the travel fellowship winner's travel and study program in newsletters for the various irrigation programs and associations and to disseminate the outcomes and learnings of the fellowship broadly
Comment	The Program Management Committee valued the contribution that the Fellowship has made in previous years to building researcher capacity in Australia. The National Program for Sustainable Irrigation ANCID Fellowship will continue to build researcher capacity, and help communicate overseas experience to targeted audiences in Australia.
Research Timeline	3 x 12 month Fellowships
Research Partner	Australian National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage
NPSI Funding	$10,000 per annum sponsorship

The 2004/05 recipient was David Allen who travelled to Denmark, Sweden, France and the USA