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| January 4, 2006. |
Website updated to ver. 2.50. |
| December 9, 2005. |
MEGREC. The «The Mediterranean Countries Green Chemistry Network» was established. MEGREC is a fundamental tool for the sustainability of SEDC. |
| October 6, 2005. |
Website updated to ver. 2.40. Main changes concern the introduction of the Sustainability page. |
| August 19, 2005. |
The website of SEDC is finally online! It took a long and hard work, but we succeeded in disclosing the public area of the project website. Here you can find plenty of information about SEDC and some educational/scientific materials. The site is still in a developing version (2.30 beta); previous ones have not been published. A final release should be ready within year 2005. |
| April 9-13, 2005. |
Completion of the first two mini-courses given by European experts at SCU. The first two mini-courses aimed at know-how transfer for the future staff of the Centre of Excellence were held in Ismailia. The first course was dedicated to 'Risk Assessment' (Prof. Maria Fueerhacker; BOKU, Austria), the second to Life Cycle Assessment (Prof. Reinout Heijungs; CML Leiden University; The Netherlands).
Please visit our Courses' Description Page for details. |
| November 6-7, 2005. |
Second annual meeting of the Management Group of the project and SEDC second annual seminar. The second annual meeting of the Management Group (MG) of the Tempus
project “Sustainable Environmental Development, A Curriculum Development
Project” (SEDC; JEP-30031-2002) took place on November 6th, 2004 at the facilities
of the Suez Canal University (SCU), Ismailia, Egypt. Members of the MG from Italy,
Egypt, Austria, and The Netherlands attended the meeting. Besides assessing the present
status of the project and planning future activities, the MG discussed with the
directive board and some professors and students from SCU about educational priorities
and needs with a bottom-up approach.
The second annual workshop for the dissemination of the activities of the Tempus project
took place on November 7th, 2004. The scientific part of it was dedicated to the
organic pollutants in Egypt. Authorities, teachers and students of SCU participated
along with the members of the MG and Dr. Giuseppe Marino, the scientific attaché of
the Embassy of Italy in Cairo. Future developments were discussed concerning Italy-
Egypt and Europe-Egypt scientific and educational collaborations under the auspices
of the Tempus Programme and of the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs. |
| September 10, 2004. |
Revision of the project officially accepted. The Directorate-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission accepted the revision requested by the partnership. Among the new main issues are: the entrance of a new partner (BOKU; Austria), increased number of SCU students to be trained at European partners' institutes (8 per year), increased budget for purchase of educational tools at SCU. |
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