UN-SPIDER Workshop in Suva, Fiji, September 2008

17 July 2008, 4:56pm

United Nations Regional UN-SPIDER Workshop:
Building Upon Regional Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management and Emergency Response for the Pacific Region

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission, with the support of the Government
of Austria, are jointly organising the above regional workshop in Suva, Fiji from 16 - 19 September 2008.

Follow the link below for the Information Note and the Application Form.

If you are a decision maker and/or an expert from an institution from within the region that uses or would like to access and use space-based information to support risk and disaster mananagement activities please do consider sending in your application.

Deadline for receiving applications is 15th August 2008. Space is strictly limited to 40 participants. For further information please contact Ms. Natercia Rodrigues (E-mail: natercia.rodrigues@unoosa.org).

Please note that only participants from within the region will be considered for funding support.

For interested experts from outside the Pacific region please check our website (http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/unspider/workshops.html) for other workshops which we are supporting as listed below and which you could consider joining:

GEOSS/UN-SPIDER Spring School "Primera Escuela de Primavera Sobre Soluciones Espaciales Para el Manejo de Desastres Naturales y Respuestas de Emergencias-Inundaciones" in Santa Maria, Brazil, 08 to 12 September 2008.

Organizado por el Centro Regional de Educação em Ciência e Tecnologia
Espacial para America Latina e o Caribe - CRECTEALC - Campus Brasil
(http://www.inpe.br/crs/geodesastres).

Contact person: Ms. Tania Sausen
(tania@ltid.inpe.br). Workshop to be carried out in Spanish and Portuguese.

"Iranian Space Agency/UN-SPIDER Regional Workshop: Building Upon Regional
Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management and Emergency Response" in Tehran, I.R. of Iran, 06 to 08 October 2008. Organized by the Iranian Space Agency (http://www.isa.ir/en/). Contact person: Mr. Saman Jalayerian
(jalayerian@isa.ir). Workshop to be carried out in English.

"CRASTE-LF Workshop International - L'Outil Spatial au Service de la Gestion des Catastrophes et des Situations d'Urgence en Afrique" in Rabat, Morocco, 10 to 12 November 2008. Organisé par Le Centre Régional Africain des Sciences et Technologies de l'Espace en Langue Française (CRASTE-LF)
(http://www.enssup.gov.ma/craste). Contact person: Mr. Abdelhak Trache
(trache@emi.ac.ma). Workshop to be carried out in French.

David Stevens
Programme Coordinator
UN-SPIDER
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
Vienna - Austria
Tel. ++43-(1)-26060-5631 - Skype: tazarkount
FAX ++43-(1)-260607-5631 - E-Mail david.stevens@unoosa.org

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