[ISSHA] Announcement: IOC Regional HAB Training Course, N. Africa

Tue Jul 15 14:26:27 EDT 2003

Paris, 15 July 2003

Subject: IOC-AECI-NAUTA-COPEMED-DANIDA Training Course on Harmful Algae for
North Africa

Place:              Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer
(INSTM),

Salammbo, Tunesia

Date:                1-10 December 2003

Organizers:      IOC of UNESCO; IOC Science and Communication Centres on
Harmful Algae (University of Copenhagen; IEO-Vigo); INSTM.

Objectives:       To strengthen the capabilities and expertise of North
African countries to design and implement monitoring programmes on harmful
algae and the management of their effects; To establish a regional network
of people working on harmful algae. 

Participants:    Ten from North African (Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia,
Algeria, Libya, Egypt) institutions with monitoring, management, or research
responsibilities related to phytoplankton, aquaculture, toxicology and other
areas related to harmful algae. 

Level:              The Course is aimed at participants who have a basic
knowledge of harmful algal taxonomy and some involvement with HAB
monitoring.

Funding:          IOC and the sponsors will cover all direct costs such as
travel, accommodation, and allowances 

Application forms are available from the following Web site:
http://ioc.unesco.org/hab/train.htm.  

Deadline: 1 October 2003

Yours sincerely,

Henrik Oksfeldt Enevoldsen

IOC Project Coordinator

IOC Science and Communication Centre on Harmful Algae

University of Copenhagen

Oster Farimagsgade 2D

DK-1353 Copenhagen K

Tel +45 33 13 44 46

Fax +45 33 13 44 47

E-mail: henrike at bot.ku.dk and hab.ioc at unesco.org

IOC is the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

VISIT THE IOC HAB HOMEPAGE AT http://ioc.unesco.org/hab 

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