Dear Alumni, current students and friends!!!

as you may have notice, there is not much activity in the website in General and that is because it needs YOU! 

Last working team has been pretty succesful after finishing the Master Programme (great indicator for us!). They all work all over the world in Development Programmes and Projects, Universities, International NGOs, etc. You can check it on the last Newsletter. The negative side of this is that is it has been imposible for them to continue running the Alumni Association (IMRD-A) and its website. So, the IMRD-A needs new blood 

There are some things left to do, besides up-dating and running the website, which is the visibility factor . One of the dreams was to make the IMRD-A a Consultancy Organization, with professional members from all over the world!. You know who are they, right?  You, your friends, colleagues and all the people around the world who studied this wonderful IMRD. You have a great data base and a huge social capital to work with.  

Secretariat has seen the potential and is currently finacially supporting the IMRD-A Website until July 19th 2013. What does it mean? You, your friends  and colleagues can make it develop until then!

The old team prepared many materials, which can be shared so you have a whole plattform and support to create something new and fresh 

Do not hesitate to contact Liza ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ), who will be eagerly waiting for your questions. But note that she is doing a lot of fieldwork so contact her now while she is available.

Kindest Regards,

The last one standing 

Hola dear IMRDians and friends of IMRD,

here is the eagerly awaited newsletter #5! In this issue you will get to know what IMRD alumni are doing; 5 students working in different projects spread all over the world share their stories with us! Furthermore you can read about the role of theatre in rural development! And you can also learn more about the current situation of rural development in Bangladesh. To download the newsletter, please click here: http://www.imrd.eu/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=141 Enjoy reading! 

Finally after a long delay from the last number of association's newsletter on Dec 2008 -more than a year - its 4th issue is out. Its main titles are as following:  Download

- Questions posed on the MB meeting of Jan 2010 and their responses

- Joint Ph.D Program proposed by IMRD and Agris

-  Graduation Ceremony batch 2007-2009

- Best Paper Prize 2009

In order to publish your article in the next number, please send it to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it before May 2010.

Any comments, please put it on the forum

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New Year’s Reality Check

Another year, another chance
To start our lives anew;
This time we’ll leap old barriers
To have a real breakthrough.

We’ll take one little step
And then we’ll take one more,
Our unlimited potential
We’ll totally explore.

We’ll show off all our talents
Everyone will be inspired;

We’ll give up all bad habits;

We’ll read and learn a lot,
All our goals will be accomplished,
Sigh...or maybe not.

Oh well, Happy New Year anyway!

By Joanna Fuchs