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Bolivia
– La Paz (12th – 15th February 2007) |
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Bolivia –
La Paz (12th – 15th February 2007) Training
course/workshop concerning the Water Sector in
Latin-Amererica. The target group of this event are
the Latin-American members coming from the EU
Delegation. The TWINLATIN Coordination will present
the project activities and main focuses. For more
information, please contact Ms. Erma Uytewaal (uytewaal@Irc.nl) |
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TWINLATIN Mid Term review Meeting |
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TWINLATIN
Mid Term review Meeting. This meeting will be
carried out from 26th to 28th March 2007 in Leuven,
Belgium. The meeting will be held at the Leuven
Katholieke Universiteit, Department of
Geography-Geology. This meeting is the first review
meeting and two external reviewers will attend and
evaluate the project findings and progresses. |
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SECOND TWINLATIN MEETING |
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The
second TWINLATIN meeting was organised in Coyhaique-Chile
from 7th to 10th March 2006. The first two days
considered a field visit to the Baker river basin in
order to have a better view of the landscape, land
use, conflicts, etc. One of the important aspects in
Baker basin is the plan for a dam construction
planned to start on 2009.? The second two days the
meeting focused on the progress activities and the
specific areas where the project will focus the R&D
activities. The next meeting will be held in Perú/Ecuador
in August 2006. |
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REGIONAL WORKSHOP IN BRAZIL TO PROMOTE
CO-OPERATION |
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In order
to organize the Latin America input to FP7 in the
field of environment, Brasil is organising a
regional Workshop with experts in the field from the
different countries of the region. The workshop is
supported by the European Commission. The workshop
is being organized in Brasilia on April 18-19th.? It
can be a good opportunity to discuss with the
Commission participant’s new ideas for FP7
(Framework Programme 7). |
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FRIEND conference |
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The Fifth
International FRIEND conference is being held in
Cuba 27/11 to 1/12/2006. FRIEND (Flow Regimes from
International, Experimental and Network Data) is a
crosscutting project of the UNESCO IHP. The theme
this
time is "Water Resource Variability: Processes,
Analysis and Impacts".? The objective of the
conference is to present the results of the UNESCO
FRIEND (Flow Regimes from International Experimental
and Network Data) research programme that has
stimulated international cooperation to meet local
and regional needs. A focus of the conference will
be to discus how advances in analytical techniques
and process hydrology are improving our assessment
of water resource variability and the impacts of
environmental change. The conference will give a
high priority to establishing links with related
international programmes and with related
disciplines of groundwater hydrology, ecohydrology
and climatology. For more information see the
conference website at:
http://www.friend-amigo.org/conferencia2006/ |
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Carlos Mancinelli
carlos.mancinelli@ivl.se
IVL,Swedish Environmental Research Institute
Box 210 60, Valhallavägen 81
Stockholm Sweden |
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