The French Embassy in Fiji supported the travel costs for two PHD students, from the University of the South Pacific, Mrs Jyoti Prasad and Mr Filipe Veisa, to attend the training session of the FALAH (Family Farming, Lifestyle and Health) project at the National University of Vanuatu, in Port-Vila, 17-21 October 2022. Alongside with University of New Caledonia (UNC) and National University of Vanuatu (NUV) PhD Students, they attended workshops on construction of survey and data storage tools and access and use of digital spatial data and remote sensing date, existing databases”. These training sessions were conducted by experts from University of New Caledonia, National University of Vanuatu, IRD (Research
Institute for Development) and IAC (New Caledonia Institute for Agronomy). Students
concluded the week of training with the creation of their poster, presenting their PhD research work and the existing links with the FALAH project.
The PhD training session, held prior the FALAH workshop at the National University of Vanuatu, was a great opportunity for USP students as they acquired new tools for their research projects. They really enjoyed sharing practices and knowledge with other PhD students from the Pacific Islands Universities Research Network (PIURN) Members Universities. They also strengthen their skills on scientific explanation and reasoning as they learned to build up an effective poster to present their research work. The posters were displayed during the FALAH workshop to present the research work of the PhD students to the partners universities and research institutes from the FALAH project.
The FALAH project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 873185.