{"id":328,"date":"2022-09-06T11:52:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T11:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/edpsy\/manjula.vithanapathirana\/?page_id=328"},"modified":"2022-09-06T12:06:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T12:06:30","slug":"awards-and-research-grants","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/edpsy\/manjula.vithanapathirana\/index.php\/awards-and-research-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards and Research Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column]<ul class=\"timeline \">\n\t\t\t<li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"date\">2019-2022<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"circle\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"data\"><div class=\"subject\">Grant for Capacity Building from EU Co-funded Erasmus+ Projected titled CONTESSA (Contemporary Teaching Skills for South Asia)<\/div><div class=\"text row\">\n\t\t    <div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t        <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2019-2022, Was instrumental in partnering with the University of Graz, to win a grant for Capacity Building from EU Co-funded Erasmus+ Projected titled CONTESSA (Contemporary Teaching Skills for South Asia). Was appointed as the National Coordinator for Sri Lanka for the project. UoC is the main beneficiary receiving <em>Euro 89,149<\/em>. (OUSL <em>Euro 85,055<\/em>). Both Universities received Smart classrooms for teacher education. Teacher Education module development and Teacher educator capacity building for academic staff in Blended Learning in Teacher Education was accomplished.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t\t    <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"date\">2019<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"circle\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"data\"><div class=\"subject\">University of Colombo Senate Award for Research Excellence Open Category (Faculty of Education) <\/div><div class=\"text row\">\n\t\t    <div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t        \n\t\t    <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"date\">2018<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"circle\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"data\"><div class=\"subject\">University of Colombo Senate Award for Research Excellence Open Category (Faculty of Education) <\/div><div class=\"text row\">\n\t\t    <div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t        \n\t\t    <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"date\">2016<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"circle\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"data\"><div class=\"subject\">University of Colombo Senate Award for Research Excellence Open Category (Faculty of Education) <\/div><div class=\"text row\">\n\t\t    <div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t        \n\t\t    <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"date\">2003-2006<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"circle\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"data\"><div class=\"subject\">An award of a research grant as a postdoctoral phase to scale-up interventions of the PhD for Multigrade teaching<\/div><div class=\"text row\">\n\t\t    <div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t        2003-2006, An award of a research grant as a postdoctoral phase to scale-up interventions of the PhD for Multigrade teaching. The project \u201cLearning and Teaching in Multigrade Settings\u201d (LATIMS) worth of <em>6000 British Sterling Pounds<\/em>. The project was between Institute of Education of University of London, Faculty of Education of the University of Colombo, and CERID of Tribhuvan University, Nepal, funded by Department for International Development (DFID), UK,\n\t\t    <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/edpsy\/manjula.vithanapathirana\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/edpsy\/manjula.vithanapathirana\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/edpsy\/manjula.vithanapathirana\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/edpsy\/manjula.vithanapathirana\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/edpsy\/manjula.vithanapathirana\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/edpsy\/manjula.vithanapathirana\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/edpsy\/manjula.vithanapathirana\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/328\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/edpsy\/manjula.vithanapathirana\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}