Category archive for ‘Newsroom’

• Mar

  2013

  18

  Africa-EU Joint Task Force meeting (0)

  

  The 15th Africa-EU Joint Task Force meeting was held to review the 8 Partnership areas of the Joint Africa-Europe Strategy (JAES), including Priority 8 for Science, Information Society and Space. The aim of the meeting was to assess recent progress and agree on priorities for 2013 in each area.
  For Priority 8 it was acknowledged that [...]

   
• Feb

  2013

  27

  Public Consultation on Cloud Computing, Software and Services (0)

  

  DG Connect (Unit E2) launches a web-based Public Consultation with a view to defining future research priorities in Cloud Computing, Software and Services, ahead of the H2020 ICT Work Programme 2014-15. All interested stakeholders (industry, research centres, academia, SMEs and users) are warmly invited to contribute.
  Drawing on the reports prepared by ISTAG in July 2012 [...]

   
• Feb

  2013

  27

  Euro-African experts identify questions to help shape the future of e-Health (0)

  

  The EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Thematic Working Group Meeting on e-Health took place on 14 February 2013 in The Netherlands.
  A group of 30 African and European experts from the ICT-for-health field came together in The Hague to identify and propose priority areas for e-health research. Five research questions were identified to elaborate on, including for instance: how to [...]

   
• Feb

  2013

  27

  Third Call for Proposals under the Intra-ACP academic mobility scheme (0)

  

  The third Call for Proposals under the Intra-ACP academic mobility scheme has been launched, with a deadline of 10 June 2013.
  The intra-ACP academic mobility scheme supports higher education cooperation between countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP). The scheme aims to promote sustainable development and poverty alleviation by increasing the availability of trained and [...]

   
• Feb

  2013

  22

  Stanislaus Bernard Lwakabamba: new Chair of the UbuntuNet Alliance (0)

  UbuntuNet Alliance, the regional research and education network for Southern and Eastern Africa, announces the appointment of Professor Stanislaus Bernard Lwakabamba as the new Chairperson of the Alliance with effect from 15 April 2013. Professor Lwakabamba will succeed Professor Zimani Kadzamira who stepped down from the position on 12th February 2013, after serving the Alliance [...]

   
• Feb

  2013

  20

  Photo Gallery – e-Health Working Group Meeting (Feb. 14, 2013 – The Hague, The Netherlands) (0)

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• Feb

  2013

  13

  EC Organisation chart (JAES/P8 related matters) (0)

  

  At the request of the EEG8 members (European Expert Group / Joint Africa-EU Strategic Partnership 8 on Science, Information Society and Space), the EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 consortium has prepared an EC organisation chart including all EC officials involved in JAES/P8 related matters.
  This activity has been carried out as part of the project activities (namely ‘Assistance to the [...]

   
• Feb

  2013

  5

  TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visit (0)

  

  The TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme provides postdoctoral researchers (usually within 5 years of receiving their PhD) from sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa) with the opportunity to make a ‘Cooperation Visit’ to an institute in Germany.
  Such visits will have a duration of no more than three months and must be undertaken within 12 months of [...]

   
• Jan

  2013

  31

  ERAfrica call for proposals: Information sessions (0)

  

  The ERAfrica call for proposals was launched on 15 January 2013 and the closing date for the calls is 15 April 2013. The calls cover three thematic areas:

  Renewable Energy,
  New Ideas, and
  Interfacing Challenges including fields such as (agriculture, water, health, ICT, and climate changes).

  The Department of Science and Technology (DST) of South Africa, partner in the [...]

   
• Jan

  2013

  30

  EuroAfrica-P8 rated “close to excellence” by the review panel team yesterday in Brussels (0)

  

  The EuroAfrica-P8 consortium members met this week (Jan. 29, 2013) at the EC premises in Brussels, for the mid-term review meeting of the project. In the presence of the former EC Project Officer (Mr. Klaus Pendl, 2012), the new Project Officer (Mr Vlassios Venner, 2013) and three external and independent reviewers, the consortium presented the [...]