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PAERIP (Promoting African – European Research Infrastructure Partnerships)

Sep 20 2012 by: Project Management Unit

PAERIP (Promoting African – European Research Infrastructure Partnerships) is a project funded under FP7 (Theme INFRA-2010-3.2). The project will create a dedicated initiative to promote research infrastructure partnerships between Europe and Africa. There is currently...

Sep 20 2012

Students from many nations attend SPIN courses in Dar Es Salaam

by: wschmidt

Subsequent to a SPIN group meeting in Zanzibar, where a construction maintenance site was visited and technical discussions about the handbook of clean and safe cement and concrete technologies as well as about the final conference ACCTA 2013 were conducted, a two day student training course took...

SPIN group meets numerous African labs in Dar Es Salaam for all-over Africa round robin

by: wschmidt

Subsequent to a SPIN meeting in Zanzibar and a two days lecture series for students at the University of Dar Es Salaam, the kick-off workshop for an all over Africa laboratory proficiency testing scheme on cement testing took place in July 5 and 6. A proficiency testing scheme, also called round...

SPIN Offshoot Project: First All-Over-Africa Cement Proficiency Testing Scheme

by: wschmidt

Based on the SPIN partnership, and with financial support from the national metrology institute PTB in Germany, an all over Africa round robin on the testing of cement was set up for the very first time. Round robins are benchmarks between laboratories. 24 partner laboratories, 22 of which from...

ACCTA2013 Conference Awards Price for Junior Scientists

by: wschmidt

The SPIN consortium is happy to announce to award a scholarship for junior scientists from German and South African research institutions to spend a 6 months research visit at the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing and the University of the Witwatersrand, respectively. The...

CAAST-Net Second Stakeholders' Conference: Steps to Innovation

Apr 20 2012 by: Project Management Unit

A second CAAST-Net Stakeholders’ Conference on Africa-Europe Science and Technology (S&T) Cooperation is set to take place from 24 to 25 April 2012 in Dakar, Sénégal. It will be hosted by the Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur, des...

Apr 20 2012