The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded TIE-member Vincent Lagendijk with a so-called VENI grant. These grants are supplied to researchers that recently completed their doctorates. It enables them to conduct new and innovative research over a period of three years.

Vincent will use the grant for his proposal Transnationalising the TVA. He will look at the transnational dimensions of the exploitation of international rivers, as inspired by the American Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA, 1933). His research proposal encompasses three cases; the river Mekong, Jordan, and the Danube. He will change to Leiden University in June 2010.

See more at http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOA_7XFCCJ