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News archive - JRC signs agreement with the Academies of Sciences of the Danube region

The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC) has signed an agreement for closer cooperation with the Academies of Sciences of the Danube region Member States. The signatories are the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), the Romanian Academy (RA) and the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS).

The agreement, which comes in the context of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region, was signed at the Fifth edition of the World Science Forum, organized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in partnership with UNESCO, ICSU, and AAAS.

The letter announces the launch of a Scientific Cooperation Initiative "Science for the Danube Strategy". Cooperation activities are envisaged in broad areas of mutual interest such as environmental information systems, modelling (for example in agriculture and climate change), sustainable management of natural resources (for example in water, soil, forests, air, land, biodiversity) and environmental risks (for example in forest fires, droughts, floods, desertification).

This initiative will be open to other countries' National Academies from the Danube region to join in, contribute to and benefit from the common activities of the partnership.

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JRC signs agreement with the Academies of Sciences of the Danube region Member States© World Science Forum, 2011

Group photo of the representatives of the Academies of Science of Danube region Member States with Dominique Ristori © World Science Forum, 2011

17/11/11

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European Commission - Joint Research Centre

Entry created by Elke Dall on November 23, 2011
Modified on November 23, 2011

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