Thank you for all the contributions in 2019 and best wishes for 2020

The r4d programme management wishes to express its enormous appreciation and gratefulness for the innumerable contributions of researchers, Review Panel members and collaborators in the r4d programme network in yet another busy and productive year.

There are many highlights to be reported from 2019 and to provide the following selection is a try that is utterly incomplete:

• In the first Call for Transformation Accelerating Grants six initiatives emerging from results of r4d project will start in 2020. The Call for TAGs is an emergent response to our transdisciplinary community and was possible thanks to reserve funds made available by the r4d Steering Committee. A second Call for TAGs will be launched in 2020.
• From Benin, we just received the news that one of the Master students, Noël Obognon, who conducted research in the r4d project "Insects as Feed", is among the twenty winners of the RUFORUM Young African Entrepreneurs Competition . Congratulations!
• Many of our researchers have already contributed to the new knowledge for development platform, www.k4d.ch , which we launched in October 2019. With photo galleries, policy briefs, video-clips and articles the platform allows an interested public and informed professionals to take on messages and results emerging from r4d projects and programme processes.
• With the research documentary "Inequality and Conflict - Beyond us and them" , emerging from a participatory filmmaking synthesis process among three r4d Social Conflicts project we've learned what it means to combine science with film. During the production, the film was a boundary object that helped overcoming disciplinary divides and linking people and places across the globe. As a final product, it remains a boundary object that can be carried on into other places for creating dialogues and solutions building on its nuanced portraits and messages. The film will be available online in 2020. Screenings are organised upon request.
• In the Digital Storytellers programme synthesis project many r4d researchers stood behind the film camera and collected footage in their project contexts. With the support of Paitití Lab short video-clips are currently being produced. Watch out for their sequential release from January 2020 onwards on www.k4d.ch.

For more information on the highlights please go to the news section or subscribe to the r4d Newsletter (link in footer).

Finally, all this would not be possible without the open minds and motivation of the researchers in the r4d programme. We also appreciate the continuous guidance by the six Review Panels and the r4d Steering Committee.

We are grateful for what was achieved in 2019 and look very much forward to 2020.

We wish all our partners and collaborators a Happy New Year!