EUCARINET
NEWS
Oranjestad, during the yearly EUCARINET meeting in Curaçao at the end of April, Dutch NCPs Koos de Korte & Daphne van de Sande came to Aruba to present the cooperation and the people programme of the Seventh Framework Program of...
The aim of the Workshop, organised by the ENLACE and EUCARINET projects with the support of the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Union, is to strengthen the international visibility of Caribbean and of Central American research potential in the field...
This event will be organized by MINCYT (Argentina) CIRAD (France) (EULARINET & ABEST II projects), with the cooperation of ADI (Portugal), CONACYT (Mexico), MINECO (Spain) and APRE (Italy)in the framework of two FP7 European projects in Cooperation in S&T and...
The 18th General Assembly of the Caribbean Academy of Sciences (CAS) will be held in the beautiful island of Barbados. The 2012 Conference will be co-hosted by The University of the West Indies - Cave Hill and by The Caribbean...
On March 19th and 20th, 2012, the first EU-LAC Health expert-workshop, organized by Fundação Oswaldo Cruz ( FIOCRUZ), took place in Rio de Janeiro. EU-LAC Health is a 5-year project co-financed by the European Commission through the 7th Framework Program...
The MycoRed International Fusarium Laboratory Workshop will be taught by seven international Fusarium experts. Participants will be introduced to standard morphological, genetic and molecular biological techniques used to identify and characterize strains of Fusarium. Participants will learn to use morphological...
The policy of the European Union (EU) is to provide support to Higher Education (HE) in ACP partner countries in the context of a balanced approach to investment across the education sector as a whole. The African, Caribbean and Pacific...
EUCARINET 2012 TRAVEL GRANT SCHEME
The aim of the Travel Grant Scheme is to promote exchange between Caribbean and European researchers as well as to encourage contacts between research institutions so that they may explore possibilities for joint participation in the...
Meet4lifesciences combines partnering meetings with company visits and offers the latest R&D, market and financial trends in life sciences for innovators in the health and agrofood sectors.
Innovators and decision makers from universities, research institutes and the industry from all over Europe will...
The AgreenSkills programme has now been launched.
AgreenSkills is an international mobility programme co-funded by the European Commission in the frame of the COFUND - FP7 People Programme Led by INRA in cooperation with Agreenium. AgreenSkills is an open programme of...
The EU Outermost Regions (ORs) and Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) are home to exceptional biodiversity. Situated in the three large oceans and at a range of latitudes, these entities are biodiversity rich and play host to more endemic species...
Welcome to the fourth edition of the ACP S&T Newsletter. With the implementation of the ACP S&T Programme being half way, it is a good moment to take stock of the achievements of the granted projects and how they see...
The objective of the programme is to promote sustainable development and poverty alleviation by increasing the availability of trained and qualified high-level professional manpower in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries.
The programme aims to strengthen cooperation between higher education institutions (HEIs)...
Recently Caribbean Research Officer Humphrey Vrolijk presented the Seventh Framework Program to the University of Aruba and to the Instituto Pedagogico Arubano. The presentation was given on the framework programme itself, the set up of the different sections and those...
The forthcoming International Conference on Research Infrastructures (ICRI 2012) will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark on 21- 23 March 2012, under the auspices of the Danish Presidency of the European Council. ICRI 2012 is co-organized by the Danish Ministry of...
In the European Council conclusions of 4 February 2011, the Heads of State and Government called on the EU to rapidly address remaining obstacles to complete the European Research Area by 2014. In response, the Commission intends to propose a...
Functions & Objectives
The Caribbean Energy Information System (CEIS) is a leading energy information network of 18 Caribbean countries with headquarters at the Scientific Research Council (SRC) in Kingston, Jamaica. Established since 1987, this network researches, processes, packages and disseminates information...
The Caribbean Information Platform on Renewable Energy (CIPORE) was developed for the provision of information on renewable energy in the region, it will be integral to assist the local ministries responsible for energy build their capacity in this area.
CIPORE is...
The eChallenges e-2011 Conference took place from 26th to 28th of October 2011 in the beautiful city of Florence, Italy, hosted by the Regional Government of Tuscany. This is the twenty-first in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the...
On 28 November 2011, the European Commission is organizing a conference in Brussels on "Global Europe 2050".
This conference is presenting the results of a European foresight expert group year-long work. The focus of this expert group was "The World and...
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The International Seminar “EU, Caribbean & Central America cooperation in Research and Innovation” took place in Brusels, Belgium on the 5th of October, 2011.
The Seminar, jointly organized by the ENLACE and EUCARINET projects with the support of the European Commission (DG Research...
The 2011 Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum (CREF), the biggest and most influential gathering of renewable energy stakeholders in the Caribbean, will take place in Bridgetown, Barbados, from October 12-14. We are proud to announce that CREF 2011 will be co-hosted...
Professor Antony Clayton
University of West Indies, Jamaica.
anthony.clayton@uwimona.edu.jm
“I was supported by Travel Grant Scheme of EUCARINET, funded by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research, to cover the cost of three events:
I visited the Centre for Environmental Strategy in the School...
The aim is to develop more efficient methods for determining wind resources and identifying regions rich in poorly-exploited wind resources, in order to enable increased and more cost-effective wind farm assets. It is also important to identify how different are...
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The Priorities Dialogue Workshop: “Renewable Energy Priority Setting for EU & Caribbean in Research and Innovation” took place in Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe at the University of Antilles and Guyane (UAG) last July 6th and 7th, 2011. The conference, organized...
Using the Web of Science (WoS) ® online database of Thomson Reuters, a database was prepared of all research publications from all Caribbean countries/territories except Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands for the period 1999-2009. This lengthy time span...
An e-survey was undertaken throughout the Caribbean to provide information on Science & Technology (S&T) strategic plans and policies, priority areas, the supporting infrastructure for S&T as well regional and international cooperation in S&T. It targeted relevant, knowledgeable individuals from...
On the 8 to 9th March 2011, UNIBE hosted a special FP7 seminar on providing FP7 support services. The seminar was organised in close cooperation by EUCARINET, ENLACE and INCONTACT.
The main goal was to inform the research community on the...
























