CAAST-Net - December (2009)

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5: 1.1 17 December 2009 - Seasons Greetings
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7: Check back to the public notice board in 2010 for more coverage of Africa-Europe cooperation in science and technology, and of course watch out for the next issue of The CAAST-Net Bulletin (due 1 January). 
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9: Happy holidays! 
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12: 1.1 9 December 2009 - China-Africa S&T Cooperation
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14: [SciDev.Net>http://www.scidev.net/en/news/china-sets-its-sights-on-african-research-cooperation.html], the science and development news network, have reported on progress made between Africa and China in fostering science and technology cooperation. 
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16: Reporting from Beijing, Wu Ni writes that "China is continuing to show an interest in developing African research capacity with the announcement of a cooperation programme in science and technology."
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18: "The China-Africa Science and Technology Partnership was launched by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology last week (24 November)."
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20: To read the full article click [here>http://www.scidev.net/en/news/china-sets-its-sights-on-african-research-cooperation.html]. 
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22: 1.1 7 December 2009 - SANORD 2009 Kicks Off with CAAST-Net Brokerage Event
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24: The Southern African-Nordic Centre’s second international conference, Inclusion and Exclusion in Higher Education, kicked-off today at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. 
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26: A special brokerage and networking session, organised and supported by CAAST-Net, was held to co-incide with SANORD proceedings. This included a presentation by Segopotso Moshapo - the South African national contact point for the FP7 ICT theme - on the recently launched [FP7 ICT call for proposals>http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=297]. 
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28: The event also featured presentations on other bi-regional funding instruments to support Africa-Europe collaboration. These will be made available on the [event’s home page>http://www.caast-net.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/CAAST-Net+Brokerage+Event+2009]. Please check back soon. 
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30: The SANORD conference, which has attracted participation of close to 150 researchers from both southern Africa and the Nordic countries, was opened officially by Rhodes University vice-chancellor, Dr. Saleem Badat. A range of papers will be presented over the next two days. Topics range from ICT and higher education to public engagement in archaelogy.      
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32: Further reporting on SANORD 2009 to come. Watch this space, and of course the next issue of [The CAAST-Net Bulletin>http://www.caast-net.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/The+CAAST-Net+Bulletin]. 
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