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1st AMESD Forum - Proceedings now available !

Monday, 08 February 2010 10:43 administrator

The proceedings of the 1st AMESD Forum which was held in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo from 1^st to 4^th December 2009 on the theme

"Towards a Pan African Partnership and Networking for the monitoring of the Environment by Satellite in African"

are now available on the Forum web site.

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IGAD-AMESD and DevCoCast to organize a joint Geonetcast and e-station training in Nairobi

Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:09 administrator

The IGAD-AMESD Thema at ICPAC and the DevCoCast projects are organizing, in collaboration the EC-JRC, the ITC and the RCMRD, a 5 days training workshop entitled: "DevCoCast/AMESD regional land training workshop in Africa: a focus on the IGAD Thema operational services". This workshop will be held in Nairobi from the 8th to the 12th of February 2010, and will gather more than 30 participants from the IGAD region.

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Commissioner Potocnick briefed on AMESD activities

Thursday, 10 September 2009 10:38 administrator

Addis Ababa, September 8th 2009 - European Union (EU) Commissioner for Science and Research, Janez Potočnick, paid a visit to the AMESD head office as part of a two-day meeting with the African Union Commission in the framework of the Africa-EU Strategic Partnership signed by the African Union (AU) and the EU at the Lisbon Summit in December 2007.

Last Updated ( Friday, 11 September 2009 12:48 ) Read more...

Signing of the AMESD Grant Contract (1.231 M€) to the Mauritius Oceanography Institute

Wednesday, 09 September 2009 12:59 administrator

The European Union, the African Union and the Mauritius Oceanography Institute (MOI) have signed this Monday, September 7, on the MOI premises (Quatre-Bornes - Mauritius) with an IOC representative, the AMESD-THEMA grant contract.