The Marina Congress Centre – Helsinki, Finland

The EuroAfrica-ICT Partnership is very pleased to announce that the ‘3rd Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research’ will be officially announced as a side-event to the “3rd Africa-EU Summit” to be held in Tripoli, Libya, on November 29-30, 2010. The 3rd Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research, which will take place in Helsinki, Finland, on December 7-8, 2010, is being organised by the EuroAfrica-ICT EU project under the aegis of the European Commission DG INFSO with the support of the Finnish Government and of the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.

Looking ahead and beyond
On Nov. 29-30, 2010, leaders from both Africa and Europe will attend the third high-level EU-Africa Summit in Tripoli, Libya. In Lisbon in 2007, the remit of the EU-Africa partnership was broadened to consider global issues, such as climate change; to move beyond conventional post-colonial donor-recipient relationships; and to involve non-state actors as much as possible. These aims were backed up by the creation of the 1st Action Plan for the period 2008-2010. The mid-term review of this strategy shows that advances have been made in many areas: cooperation between officials is stronger; the Joint Declaration of Poznan, announced ahead of the December 2009 Copenhagen climate change summit, demonstrated a shared commitment to fighting climate change; and electoral observation missions have been carried out as planned. The challenge now is to continue the mutual collaboration and use the forthcoming Summit to unlock the full potential of the Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES) in a future 2nd Action Plan. (copyrights: Africa-EU Partnership 2010)

Note: The ‘3rd Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research’ is organised in the framework of the ‘2010 Euro-Africa Week on ICT Research & e-Infrastructures’ and is co-located with the ‘1st Euro-Africa e-Infrastructures Conference‘ to be held on Dec. 9-10, 2010 at the same venue.